For the long-form writers out there, check out Degen App (iOS only). You can still use Farcaster for everything else, but writing out longer form ideas, etc in casts is great. As the platform evolves, will probably be a great place for deeper discussions and ideation in the replies. For now, basic in many ways compared to fc but great for writing ✍️

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Going on the end of year four as a writer in Web3, I have reached a point where I am not convinced it is worth it to continue. I have learned a lot, especially this year with having spent so much time on socials in lieu of having money to spend to grow. I am not convinced that this has helped. If anything, it may have hurt. I still get little to no work in this industry and cause myself an immense amount of stress trying to keep up with everything and be so many places online at once. I do a lot of replying on X because their ad share payouts are really the only reliable revenue DepressiveHacks makes at this time. Money has also been extremely tight for me this year. In one of my comments, I made a tongue-in-cheek comment about how I am hopelessly single. Some anon in the comments replied "well, yeah, of course you are. You've written 80k tweets about how your depressed. Who would be attracted to that?" While they are far from all about my depression, it has me considering all I'm sacrificing with the opportunity cost of the time I spend trying to get DepressiveHacks off the ground. More can be found below: https://x.com/i/status/2002600936007463241

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Got myself a nice dip pen set today. Different nibs, two holders. Now I need to find something to write.

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Read my latest musings on Substack! Please! And thank you! https://open.substack.com/pub/hackingthroughlife/p/im-not-for-everyone?r=2g1nkb&utm_medium=ios

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writers of farcaster, do you have a book or story or passage you return to when you’re way too — In It — and barely remember what words are? i like — bloodchild and other stories by octavia butler — the pear tree passage in their eyes were watching god — and from song of achilles, “iphigenia. a tripping name, the sound of goat hooves on rock, quick, lively, lovely.”

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Been on a short hiatus, but more writing will commense this weekend before more travel next week. Looking forward to finally digging into a few things on the to-do list. Gotta get some of these ideas out (and some copy editing done).

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Tomorrow. 1:30 Eastern. @depressivehacks on all platforms.

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New Substack article: "The Many (Preferred) Strategies" This article breaks down the new preferred shares issued by Michael Saylor's Strategy in an effort to create a yield curve backed by Bitcoin. https://x.com/depressivehacks/status/1976776739595473328

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the people who make scrivener deserve a nobel prize. i think this about twice a week

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gm writing persuasive arguments is hard. i remember how structured processes (loosely socratic) helped make this much easier when i taught at harvard's writing center. just built a prototype of a tool to help with that kind of structured process. it's live and working properly, but there's no access control yet so i can't put a link out broadcast. read more about the project: https://vaughntan.org/thinkingtools there's a link in there to a form to sign up for updates and testing sessions.

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i've been working on a pen-and-paper mechanism test for building an AI-powered tool for helping users think critically while using the tool to write reasoned arguments (so #meta, i know). the pen-and-paper mechanisms were designed to explore different UX for human-AI interaction when developing arguments. they worked really well with users in settings ranging from college students to employees at a public utility. i've been working on the next step, which is turning the pen-and-paper mechanisms into something which loops in LLMs in a socratic mirror sense. hacky af, but it actually works enough to be live-testable 🎉. you can read more about the project here: https://vaughntan.org/aiux

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First post on Substack! Actually my first piece of organized writing I’ve ever put out that wasn’t an assignment or an application. And I got my first subscriber, too, which is surreal. It’s fulfilling on a level that feels noble, you deem my words are worth reading? Thank you for spending the time and energy to type your email in, I’ll honor that commitment and post high quality content worthy of your attention. Side note, I want to improve my writing skills but I also enjoy my grammatical errors because it adds some soul to the work. That said, I’m very open to constructive criticism so feel free to rip away at my work! Seriously, it’s significantly more difficult to improve when you don’t first acknowledge that there is room for improvement. Thank you! https://aakashyagnik.substack.com

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What a fantastic convergence! https://x.com/damienhci/status/1963246088674017478

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You've waited patiently long enough. Next interview in the never ending interview series is out! We discuss what lessons can be taken from traditional finance into Web3. As always, thanks to Matthew Snider for the time and check the comments for the interview link.

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I have been diving into DeFi lately & had the opportunity to combine what I am doing with what I am writing about. Here's a DeFi 101 intro I wrote for Vault12: https://vault12.com/blog/defi/

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