A Perfect Circle
I tripped, fell down a rabbit hole, and unexpectedly found myself in some of the most exciting circles I can remember. In every direction: kind, visionary geniuses.
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Conscious Distribution
Streaming is a broken model and I don't want to center my distribution around it. Here's what I'm learning about releasing music independently.
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An Empty Drafts Folder
I'm not afraid of death. But I've been thinking about what it means that all of these ideas are just sitting in a drafts folder, unshared.
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Participation Trophies
DAOs felt abstract until I actually joined one. Circular descriptions about governance didn't click — but building something together did.
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In Praise of Structured Time
When I left my last full-time job I immediately deleted my calendar. Then I learned something unexpected about the freedom I thought I wanted.
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A Meal Cooked With Love
They say you can taste when a meal is cooked with love. The same thing is true of music — and maybe everything we make.
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A Human-centered Mettaverse
web3 is our chance to cleanly break from everything that went wrong with consumer technology. Or it's a chance to repeat every mistake faster.
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To My Most Talented Friends
I've heard you're bored with making products at corporations to enrich billionaires. Me too. An open letter to my talented friends about what comes next.
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Decentralized Identity
You've seen .eth domains around. They're much bigger than wallet nicknames — they're the beginning of actually owning your identity online.
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Finding The Grain
Meaningful projects take sustained effort — but they shouldn't feel like writing a dissertation with a pen that's out of ink. Work with the grain, not against it.
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Bottom-up Writing
Roam and Notion couldn't be more different — and that difference maps perfectly to how brains actually work.
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Humans Not Resources
When algorithms can do what you do, being skilled isn't enough. The differentiator is telling compelling stories — of yourself, your work, and what you want to contribute.
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Showcasing the Showcasers
Shaggy's chart-topping hit wasn't supposed to go further than the middle of a forgotten album. One passionate DJ changed that — and there's a lesson in it for all of us.
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In Public; In Service
On most days I write thousands of words, yet publish precious few of them. The Inner Critic has strong opinions about that ratio.
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Why I am optimistic again
When I became disenchanted with technology in 2018, it shattered a mythology I'd spent my 20s immersed in. It took a while to find a reason to be excited again.
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