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Quality Writing is Systemic

If quality writing is more a result of systemic factors than individual performance, how should we think about Farcaster CLPs (conversational liquidity providers)?

#writing#farcaster#systemsthinking#systems#conversation
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Onboarding @edit to Farcaster

The story of @edit's onboarding to Farcaster via gift culture, permissionless writer-artist collaborations, and the workings of the Farcaster scenius.

#farcaster#onboarding#lore#community#value#gifts
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In the Farconomy, Hope is a Powerful Drug

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

#farcaster#labor#creativity#journal#writing#writers
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Clanker Is A Goth

Clanker is an AI agent (bot) launched on Farcaster with a "personality" that lends itself to rich bot-lore. A goth elder explains why clanker is “one of us.”

#clanker#goth#web3#crypto#culture#lore#bots#ai#agents#farcaster#memecoins#proxystudio
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Slowcore Nerd Notes: Farcaster Channels = Creative Renaissance?

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?

#farcaster#web3#creativity#moxie protocol#channels#value flows
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Slowcore Nerd Notes: On Sustaining Writing As An Art Form

Outline: What's important for long-term sustenance of writing as an art form? What's not so important?

#value flows#slowcore#slow culture#writing#art
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Slowcore Nerd Notes: On the Value of Attention

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

#slowcore#slow culture#attention#value flows#farcaster#philosophy#time#creativity#web3#creative incubation#creative process#labor#motivation#reciprocity
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Welcome to the Slowcore HQ Channel on Farcaster

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.

#slowcore#slow culture#farcaster#channels#scenius#announcements#web3
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Slowcore Nerd Notes: On Value Flows

Fresh from the Farcaster scenius: early sketches toward a "slowcore" business model for writing as an art form.

#slowcore#value flows#creativity#farcaster#scenius#slow culture#web3#creative process#creative incubation#philosophy#business models
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On Art, Content Creation, and Monetization: A Word Collage

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.

#creative process#creativity#art#labor#web3#philosophy#funding#motivation#attention#creative nonfiction writing#arts#word collage
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Writers, Web3, and Earning a Living

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?

#writers#writing#money#creativity#motivation#web3#zora
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The Magic of Zorbs

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.

#zora#zorbs#web3#art#play#pondering#memes#magic#imagination#imaginal realm#creativity
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The Farcaster Scenius Lexicon

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.

#scenius#farcaster#web3#onchain media#zora#word nerds#memes
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Toward An Ideal Web3 Publishing Home

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.

#overthinkers anonymous#creative nonfiction writing#creative process#digital publishing#web3#attention#long-form writing
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Free + Valuable: Why I'm Excited About Zora Protocol Rewards (re-release)

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

#zora#web3#arts#labor#scenius#scenius labor#reciprocity#digital publishing#onchain media#value flows#philosophy#farcaster#creative process#creativity
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Introducing Referral Rewards: An Interview with Colin Armstrong

“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."

#digital publishing#business models#interviews#web3#protocol rewards#referral rewards
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Update on Teaching Queries + Monetization

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.

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Free + Valuable: Why I'm Excited About Zora Protocol Rewards

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

#zora#web3#arts#labor#scenius#scenius labor#reciprocity#digital publishing#onchain media#value flows#philosophy#farcaster#creative process#creativity
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Scenius Incubation: Open Source Creative Processes

Forms of Incubation is a web3-native project to open-source creative processes in the context of scenius (the collective form of genius).

#creative incubation#incubation spaces#farcaster#zora#paragraph#open source#scenius#web3#editing#digital publishing#media industry#onchain media#creative process#funding#labor
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What is Creative Incubation?

A conversation with myself about the intelligence of the creative process, as mediated by deep-writer-mind.

#creative process#creative nonfiction writing#creative incubation