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Jacque

Blooming in the Darkness

Winds of change Find little ways of sharing gratitude For all you You beautiful creatures You entities that have chosen to be here During this timeline On this earth To share your light and wisdom with the world Create beautiful things That build bridges And share in our collective joy Remember to give yourself gratitude Something that should be shared Even for the smallest cases And spread out Choose to show compassion to yourself As well as others Within our abilities It’s in our grasp To c...

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Web3 with TPan

TPan

#368: Leveraging Playbooks for Growth

Happy $100k Bitcoin…again! The milestone may have lost some luster compared to the first time back in December 2024, but it still brings a sense of joy and excitement. Sorta like how your favorite holiday comes around every year. Anywho…PlaybooksOne trend that’s been popping up on my radar has been publicly published playbooks that share best practices from ecosystems, platforms, and apps for various audiences they’re trying to attract.Ronin’s Growth PlaybookRonin (a gaming-focused blockchain...

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The Arcadia

Design From First Principles

What is the point of design? I think that the point of design is to take something people want and make it intuitive and delightful for them to use. Paul Graham always says, "make something people want." It's a great maxim. Where design comes in is in the making, so to speak. Design takes certain principles and applies them to the making of the product to make sure that when the user gets it, they find that they can use it, and that they enjoy using it. After all, something people want can be...

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Tso’s Tweets

David Tso

Tso’s Tweets | Apr 2025, A New Day One

Welcome to the Tso’s Tweets newsletter! Every month, I curate my best thoughts, ideas, and observations on crypto and the industry at large.

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CryptoSapiens

humpty

🤳 What TikTok Got Right—And Crypto Still Might

Reflections from Farcon and the Onchain Creator House Farcon brought the crypto ecosystem together in New York for a week of energy, introspection, and evolution. This wasn’t just another conference. From spontaneous street interviews to meme panels and breakfast burrito inside jokes, the vibe was unmistakably different: lighter, more playful, and surprisingly self-aware. But beneath the surface, a deeper conversation unfolded. What does it really mean to be an onchain creator? Have we actually.

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Hard Mode First

Bethany Crystal

"Mommy, can I talk to my AI?"

What a five-year-old's simple request reveals about the dangerous gap between childlike trust and the unchecked rollout of AI companions.

#ai#tech#parenting#education#learning#technology#responsible#ethics
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Bedrock

Bedrock

002: At Farcon, everyone was building mini apps

Mini apps are the short-form content of software.

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CURIOUS AF

David Preston

What’s It Worth to You?

Nothing shifts my perspective quite like travel. I’m writing this on my phone from downtown Victoria on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, where among other wonders (dedicated bicycle lanes, poutine, friend and colleague Adam Haigler) I am surrounded by lilacs and tulips. More about the flowers in a moment. In Satire VI, the Roman poet Juvenal (the same writer who gave us, “Who watches the watchmen?”) describes a woman worthy of marriage as rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima c...

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Falsenine

UCL Semi-Final Second Leg Roundup

Inter dragged themselves to the final, and PSG cruised to it. Here's how it all happened.The Angel Of MilanTypically, when I start writing one of these columns, I think of something interesting that stood out to me tactically. Some brilliant use of a player or a system that we were not expecting, to achieve the desired result. This game was not about that at all. At all. Don't get me wrong, there were tactical matchups aplenty. Thuram's hold-up play to help Inter progress the ball by playing ...

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Brandon Donnelly

Brandon Donnelly

Blocking time for ambitious projects

Back in 2016, I wrote a post called "Manager vs. maker," where I cited an essay by Paul Graham that talks about these two modes of working. To quickly summarize, the manager's schedule is for bosses. It's a calendar broken down into units of an hour that gets filled with lots of calls and meetings. Things are said, and then the manager moves onto the next appointment. Makers, on the other hand, can't operate in units of an hour. If you write, program, design buildings, create financial models...

#manager#maker#paul-graham#productivity#business#work
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Unruly Futures

Venture's Metamorphosis

The narrative on venture has been negative for the past couple of years:Mega firms are concentrating all the capital in the marketExits take longer, companies stay private foreverNo more cash exits from large tech companies, who are investing / inventing internallyMassive competition for smaller funds, as mega funds write lots of pre-seed and seed tickets as options for later roundsConsolidation inevitableand so on. But this week, it seems like the narrative reached another bigger, more speci...

The Asterisk

killing joy

A friend tweeted something about trans rights today. They said that people who exist just to take joy from others are the ones who should be excluded from society. It resonated. Being the wrong kind of trans woman, I encounter these joy assassins a lot. So often, I count on them being present in spaces that I’m invited to. It’s hard. I never learned how to just ignore them. One thing I’ve learned is that a lot of the time that’s the hidden tax on those invitations. If you want to be here you ...

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The Comma Project

Devin Baker

4️⃣ Comma Partners: April 2025

Steadier - for now. Gold is showing us the way

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Nate's Blog

AI Creativity, Together

We don’t just need more powerful AI models; we need better ways to create together, with economic models attached. We need built-in structures to allow individual artists and builders to find creative expression in multiplayer mode: allowing human intent, curation, and promotion to combine and produce more positive sum outcomes for creatives, with AI superpowers. This May, I’m incentivizing participation in three open experiments: Arrowheads, LumArt, and Luminary. Each one explores how we can...

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Continuations

Albert Wenger

Whither Universities: Reinvention or Obsolescence?

Never let a good crisis go to waste. That is the adage that universities should take to heart as they confront the threats of the Trump administration. Because the reality is that universities have been lost for decades and require dramatic changes if they want to survive at all in the future. Here are a series of major issues that universities urgently need to address:Frontal teaching, high stakes testing, even traditional essays are all outmoded. The rapid progress of AI is making many of t...

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Dark Star Crashes

Darkstar

Today's Web3 Communities: The McMansions of the Internet

We are entering the age of living online. An increasing number of people have employment that exists only online. We have meaningful relationships that are primarily or even only online. It should not be surprising that a growing number of us -- especially we who are most intensely online -- are embracing the concept of ‘owning’ online things. A belief in the value of NFTs is a logical extension of the vitality of online experience and existence. As with the ‘real world,’ the things we own en...

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BuildBetter by BFG

BFG (aka BrightFutureGuy)

The Silent Saboteur: Don’t Let Fear Kill Momentum After Great Meeting

It affects everyone. Whether you build, market, sell, pitch or look for job. We all have meetings with "higher stakes" and the psychology works its tricks the same way for everyone. There’s a fragile moment between ...

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BizarreBeasts

BizarreBeasts

BizarreBeasts: Checkerz

BizarreBeasts: Checkerz isn't just checkers; it's a vibrant, strategic showdown where hand-illustrated BizarreBeasts clash for supremacy! This latest entry in my expanding BizarreBeasts universe fuses hand-illustrated artwork, engaging gameplay, and web3-native experiences. Live now in the Farcade, Checkerz reimagines the classic game with a bold, artistic twist: each piece is a unique character, and victory is a chance to truly GO BIZARRE. All the artwork featured in this article is derived ...

#bizarrebeasts#web3games#gaming#farcade#checkers#checkerz#community
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Paragraph Picks

Reid DeRamus

Paragraph Picks (Vol. 40)

We're back with the 40th edition of Paragraph Picks, highlighting a few hand-selected pieces from the past couple of weeks.

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Hard Mode First

Bethany Crystal

Defining the Rules of the Road for Digital Assets

Navigating the future: How digital assets can power an important infrastructure layer that shapes innovation and regulation

#blockchain#crypto#policy#technology#innovation#startups
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