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Latent Reflections 001

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Apr 21

Last year, I wrote an essay reflecting on my exploration of latent space as a creative medium, which sought to grapple with the existential question of how human craft and creativity fit into the age of Generative AI. One of the key insights that emerged from that journey was that the surface area for human design within these systems exists at the level of programmability, or put another way, within the process of training the model and/or architecting its underlying design. “This is essenti...

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Neural Media

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Oct 24

"All media are extensions of some human faculty — psychic or physical." ~Marshall McLuhanFor most of 2024, and especially since publishing my last essay, I’ve been spending quite a bit of time trying to make sense of what we now call “generative AI” and its implications for me personally and for society more broadly. Like many, I’ve been captivated by AI as a creative tool, and have found myself implementing many of these new products into my workflows, particularly for creative writing and m...

Programmable Media

Programmable Media

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Aug 13

Over the past few months, I’ve been spending most of my time thinking about the future of media, and how crypto might fit into that pictu...

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Crypto's Identity Crisis

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Jan 24

2023 catalyzed a fresh wave of enthusiasm around “consumer crypto,” in part driven by the rise of products like friend.tech, but also by an ackn...

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Beyond 721 & 1155: Revisiting the NFT Design Space

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Jun 29

In the bull market, trends around Google searches for the word “NFT” were often cited as a proxy for adoption and popularity, but ironically, this te...

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Mysticism & The Meaning of Life

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Mar 29

On existential angst & modern religionWe used to have frameworks for meaning & purpose; blueprints for How To Be that we could look towards for guidance on what to strive for and how best to live our lives. Although far from perfect, these frameworks provided us with stories, knowledge and identities that we could use to make sense of the world and our place in it. They equipped us with tools that we could use to navigate the inevitable chaos and suffering that seem to be built into the exper...

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MEV Series Part II: Understanding Order Flow Extractable Value

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Mar 29

Part I of this MEV Series focused on blockspace markets across ecosystems, specifically:The rise of MEV on Ethereum, R&D efforts aroun...

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MEV Series Part I: Blockspace Markets Across Ecosystems

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Feb 24

The MEV conversation until this point has been focused almost exclusively on Ethereum, however this series explores MEV within the Solana a...

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Mapping The Evolution Of Blockchain Bridges

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Dec 8

Where we've beenIn the early days of smart contract platforms, the consensus view was that there could only ever be a handful of L1s – maybe even onl...

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The DeFi Appchain Design Space

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May 19

The design space for blockchains has recently opened up: we no longer just have “monolithic” chains, but also:“modular” chainsdata availability & con...

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Neural Media

"All media are extensions of some human faculty — psychic or physical." ~Marshall McLuhanFor most of 2024, and especially since publishing my last essay, I’ve been spending quite a bit of time trying to make sense of what we now call “generative AI” and its implications for me personally and for society more broadly. Like many, I’ve been captivated by AI as a creative tool, and have found myself implementing many of these new products into my workflows, particularly for creative writing and m...

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