A personal reckoning with the hidden opportunity costs of "free" labor done while trying to build a sustainable creative livelihood in the "Farconomy."

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?

What might it mean to design a Farcaster channel as a "slowcore room," noting that attention is both given and paid?

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.

What if more web3 projects took a page from Zora's playbook and developed positive-sum mechanisms that reward creative labor as wealth generation?

What if more web3 projects took a page from Zora's playbook and developed positive-sum mechanisms that reward creative labor as wealth generation?