A daily window into my observations, learnings, and the view of Moxie from where I sit as a writer + editor.
What if the Farcaster ecosystem holds the keys to de-enshittification? Has the time finally come for the real creative renaissance crypto has long promised?
Outline: What's important for long-term sustenance of writing as an art form? What's not so important?
What might it mean to design a Farcaster channel as a "slowcore room," noting that attention is both given and paid?
The /slowcore-hq channel now focuses entirely on the emerging slow-culture movement on Farcaster. Black Stone Sanctuary will continue its work on a separate channel.
Fresh from the Farcaster scenius: early sketches toward a "slowcore" business model for writing as an art form.
A "word collage" of bite-sized nuggets on creative labor and value flow. All snippets were rescued from in-progress but long-unfinished drafts before they landed on the scrap heap.
The vast majority of pro writers don't earn a sustainable living from their creative work. This is a huge collective loss. Can web3 do better?
It’s Zorbsplaining time! What are Zorbs? Why are they magical? Can Zorbs serve as attractors for real positive-sum value? Join in for a deep dive into the Zora meme and the Way of the Zorb.
Introducing a collection of mints on the Zora chain to represent the early Farcaster Scenius Lexicon: 1) conversational liquidity providers; 2) before/after Farcaster; and 3) benevolent dictator.
One writer’s starter wish list for an ideal web3 publishing home for long-form writing and microblogging. Bonus: creative process nerdery and an intro to the Watcher at the Gate.
What if more web3 projects took a page from Zora's playbook and developed positive-sum mechanisms that reward creative labor as wealth generation?
“We wanted to provide a new way to incentivize readers or curators for sharing content, while rewarding them for doing so... Crypto is uniquely suited to solve this, because it allows easy and immediate transfer of value – no signup or setup needed."
If it turns out the work I publish is educational, great. But it’ll be a happy byproduct of open-sourcing my creative process rather than an explicit goal or targeted outcome.
Forms of Incubation is a web3-native project to open-source creative processes in the context of scenius (the collective form of genius).
A conversation with myself about the intelligence of the creative process, as mediated by deep-writer-mind.
Will it ever be finished? Your guess is as good as mine.
Can writing in public become fun again... purely for its own sake? Let's find out. Here I shall pay no heed whatsoever to monetization, topic consistency, algorithms, or audience-building.
This post teaches you everything you need to know about getting started with Paragraph.
