Community
I wish I realized that so much of the return—of integrating the journey—is just being willing to be seen in whatever stage of the process you are in and inviting others to meet you there , instead of assuming they won’t understand and hiding because of that.
returning from the hero's journey
Until last year, launching an onchain subscription was difficult, as NFTs and ERC20s had no concept of time embedded within them. Instead, they offered one-time, discrete value transfer between buyers and sellers.
Token allowances and streaming escrow contracts are one solution to this problem, but they are complex and difficult to use.
We made STP... See more
Token allowances and streaming escrow contracts are one solution to this problem, but they are complex and difficult to use.
We made STP... See more
Subscription Token Protocol – V2
Seed Club is a participant-owned venture network. It’s a bet that doing venture capital from the first principles of a network instead of the first principles of a firm will create dramatically more interesting outcomes.
It’s a subtle but fundamental shift. It means that instead of the organization at large being narrowly focused on investing... See more
It’s a subtle but fundamental shift. It means that instead of the organization at large being narrowly focused on investing... See more
Josh Cornelius • for the love of god zoom out
Let’s recap: as content creation and distribution tends to infinity, community emerges as true internet-native media. Community is an exercise in cultural production, and communities filter content proliferate a specific point of view. The role of the community, then, is to create and curate cultural artifacts in-line with their collective point of... See more
Author Address • Luxury Media
The integration wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. It mostly just required me to surrender, to accept being (at least temporarily) misunderstood as the price for being seen. And realizing that, the more I opened myself up to where I was, the more at home I felt, and the better job I did sharing the treasures I had found on my journey.
It is a... See more
It is a... See more
returning from the hero's journey
We no longer lack tools for creating content. When content production and distribution is infinite, the important aspect is its primary function in crafting and proliferating culture*.* In other words, the value of content today comes primarily from its use in cultural production.
Author Address • Luxury Media
“I wonder if choosing off-grid living implies an abandonment of our current world, instead of integrating with existing systems and trying to make them better,” she asks me. “The off-grid lifestyle seems to invite people to actively leave society with the assumption that since this is not working, there must be a better way out there .”
“Friends” as the ideal community
But I wish I had realized sooner that I could show up as I was, and everyone who loved me would still love me even as I was confused, freshly transformed and still getting my footing. I wish I realized that no one is as absorbed in our journeys of inner-transformation as we are, and that sometimes laughing with old friends about nothing in... See more
returning from the hero's journey
like substack, hypersub gives followers more control over their experience: users choose exactly which creators they want to support and therefore what content they want to consume.
unlike substack, the user-centric feed experience that hypersub offers can be implemented well beyond one app.
unlike substack, the user-centric feed experience that hypersub offers can be implemented well beyond one app.