The featured image is an unauthorized remix of “Fake Internet Money #607” by Steve Pikelny. This essay is intended as a creative exploration of Jihad’...

A lot of writing about GPTs and LLMs in 2023 asked whether writing itself might become obsolete. In the same year, media companies cut 20,342 jobs. 20...

Late night albums for conversation pits: Purelink - Signs André 3000 - New Blue Sun Wata Igarashi - Agartha Maara - The Ancient Truth Azu Ti...

One of my favorite early projects at Consensys was Ujo Music, a platform for musicians to share their music onchain -- before the NFT (ERC-721 standar...

“Those legacy systems are gone, they’re irrelevant. They are becoming more and more irrelevant by the day. The internet is the only thing that matter...

More writing, music, podcasts, and art is released into the world every day — faster than ever before. How do you keep up with all this new content? H...

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“Most artists are narcissists.” This was how a friend, a filmaker, described his recent experience at a salon in NYC. (If you were wondering, salons a...

✨Some personal news✨ After 5.5 transformative years at ConsenSys, I’m leaving to join Mirror.xyz as their first marketer. Here are some reflections on...

Image Source: Midjourney prompt [a crypto conference in the style of Hieronymus Bosch] Whenever you're creating a piece of content, stop and ask: If...

Let’s start with some ecological grief to describe the current state of the Anthropocene. In the course of 40 years, an area the size of Europe has be...

Let’s start with some ecological grief to describe the current state of the Anthropocene. In the course of 40 years, an area the size of Europe has be...

Hardly a day goes by without a news story about record-breaking droughts and floods, widespread species loss, and destruction of valuable natural reso...

Music is part of my monthly budget. Pre-pandemic this included live music, some vinyls on the side, not to mention subscriptions to the streaming pla...