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April 9, 2025

Pics Or It Didn't Happen, Football Edition

I've had two deja vu moments on Farcaster this year. Oddly enough, I can't quite remember one of them. But the other was talking to Kenny about how communities make decisions and execute the results of those decisions onchain. Somehow, we started out talking about AirSwap and ended up talking about decentralised decision making.Chukwuka Osakwe on Warpcastairswap is decentralised and it wasn't about wrapping tokens. what is going on?FarcasterI realised it was a deja vu moment when Kenny sent m...

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February 26, 2025

Committing to Football Onchain

I was researching how the Ethereum Attestation Service (EAS) works late last year and I had a simple idea for a basic service that uses EAS to show that people have done something onchain. I wrote about it in a Figma frame and forgot about it until I came across Commit.wtf a few weeks ago. Figma frame with the idea for EAS attestations as proof of irl workCommit is, in the words of its founder, "an onchain accountability protocol." The idea is for people to commit to things onchain openly and...

January 15, 2025

Do Something

TL;DR The more I take action, the less anxious I feel. I am currently trying to get into a proper design career, and I am finding it terrifying because I am always afraid of doing new things. I like staying on the beaten path and doing things I am familiar with. With new things there is a very good possibility that you end up failing, or worse, looking like a fool. But this year I am trying more and more to go after the things that I find interesting, to try stuff. With this attempt to make a...

November 7, 2024

Financialisation And UX Problems

The Aesthetic-Usability EffectThere is a principle in design known as the aesthetic-usability effect. In a nutshell, this effect posits a strong correlation in a user's mind between how aesthetically pleasing a product is perceived to be and its functionality. When users encounter a product, they are likely to consider the more aesthetically pleasing products as more functional and easier/better to use. This perception exists regardless of how easy using the product is. For those who work in ...

August 12, 2024

Obsession And Taste

For five months or so last year I was obsessed with work. I typically worked 12-hour days, six days a week, taking only Sundays off to re...

August 6, 2024

Self Conscious Running

In 2020 during the COVID lockdowns I was spiraling mentally and in a bid to stem that spiral I started taking very long walks. I cannot remember why ...

June 21, 2024

Some Ramblings On AI And Creative Work

Here is a question: "what might be the ultimate effect of computers being able to mimic the creative and artistic process so well that learning the c...

June 13, 2024

The Internet Is Dead. Long Live The Internet.

I am increasingly distressed by what the internet is becoming — a hellhole.Social media, in particular, has become an attention span-destroying, soul...

May 3, 2024

Sometimes, Standing Still Is Moving Forward

Towards the end of last year I had to learn how to stand still again. To stare a really difficult situation in the face and deliberately decide to st...

March 26, 2024

Stablecoin User Narratives

Lately I've been reading Hooked: How To Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal. It's a nice, little book with useful ideas on building products tha...

March 12, 2024

Good Obsession

A few days ago Agost Biro shared a video breaking down the tactics used by German football coach Julian Nagelsmann to the Football channel on Farcast...

#football#obsessed
December 18, 2023

Welcome To The Arcadia

For the past two months or so I've been trying to convince myself to start writing again. In particular to resurrect my Paragraph newsletter and get ...

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August 2, 2023

Building Out Virality In Web3 Products

Tl;drTo build out virality in your Web3 products you need to:Build virality into your product if possible. Make sharing inherent to the usage of the p...

#web3#blockchain
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