Devin Baker

We can and should automate toil, but we must preserve craft. The difference is simple: when I use a model as leverage to remove toil, I remain source; when I ask a model to remove my agency by replacing my labor, something ancient and unseen becomes source.

Pump's model is tuned for velocity. You get a flat SOL rate per token that hits a $69k market cap, and zero cut of protocol fees via PumpSwap. So the name of the game is launching as many tokens as possible and riding waves of hype.

LaunchLab, or forking your own version of it, is the way to go if you're gunning for a viral hit and care more for... See more

Leaning into these features of property in the physical world will allow for a highly specialized and differentiated agent that isn’t possible today. For example, imagine J. R. R. Tolkien held a certain NFT agent and used it while writing The Hobbit . Let’s say you want to write your own fantasy novel and are seeking an agent to help you. The fact... See more

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

When content production is infinite, we’re left asking, “ What is this all for?” An abundance of content leaves us with a dearth of context and meaning. Under the physics of infinity, media doesn’t need to be a vehicle for delivering more content. Instead, it should act as a lens through which we sensemake with content, and as a container for... See more

Both Boomers and GenX’ ers bought their homes for around 4.5 times their annual incomes. When Millennials entered the US workforce, they could buy houses for circa 5.5 times annual income. In the COVID emergency, the US Federal Reserve generously printed $6 trillion through QE policies, and since then house prices have jumped to some 7.5 times... See more

Tokens can represent the ownership of anything digital, including money, art, photos, music, text, code, game items, voting power, access, or whatever people come up with next. Using some additional building blocks, they can also represent real-world things, like physical goods, real estate, or dollars in a bank account. Anything that can be... See more

Just like few of us experience love at first sight, few will experience passion and meaning at first experience. Like a relationship, we must build it from scratch, piece-by-piece, until after years of brick and sweat, it can stand on its own.

And once we’re there, like a plane in full nosedive, we let it take us to our grave, holding hands,... See more

However, compromising on decentralization has never been an option for the Ethereum community. It's also essential because it is closely tied to security and gives the Ethereum network properties like neutrality, censorship resistance, and permissionless-ness, which are equally important as the ones in the scalability trilemma.