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Dec 2
New users come to Farcaster for two reasons: a) they find Warpcast a great social product and see their friends there and b) because of products built on the Farcaster protocol they want to use (like clanker, or super). The main driver for (a) is the good work of Dan, Varun and the Merkle factory team. Not much to say here besides noting their remarkable execution and prompt recovery from actions that arguably adversely impacted (b). (b) is the more interesting factor because it's the driver ...
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Dec 2
New users come to Farcaster for two reasons: a) they find Warpcast a great social product and see their friends there and b) because of products built on the Farcaster protocol they want to use (like clanker, or super). The main driver for (a) is the good work of Dan, Varun and the Merkle factory team. Not much to say here besides noting their remarkable execution and prompt recovery from actions that arguably adversely impacted (b). (b) is the more interesting factor because it's the driver ...
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Turning Claude Code into my personal chief of staff

Open systems create emergent behaviours

Most popular by one small idea

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Turning Claude Code into my personal chief of staff

Open systems create emergent behaviours

Why you should care about zero-knowledge

Monetizing open social graphs

Why does it matter to have computers that can make commitments?

Why you should care about zero-knowledge

Monetizing open social graphs

Why does it matter to have computers that can make commitments?

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7h ago
Noticing the short line
Jim Simons made $28 billion running Renaissance Technologies, the greatest quantitative fund ever built. In the early days they also did some discretionary trading. There's one interview I love from the period. In it Simons recalls how him and his partner had a large position in gold, riding a run from $200 to $800. One day he calls his stockbroker. During small talk the broker complains that his wife, a jeweler, had cleaned out all his old gold tie clasps and cufflinks that morning and gone ...
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Blog iconone small idea
7h ago
Noticing the short line
Jim Simons made $28 billion running Renaissance Technologies, the greatest quantitative fund ever built. In the early days they also did some discretionary trading. There's one interview I love from the period. In it Simons recalls how him and his partner had a large position in gold, riding a run from $200 to $800. One day he calls his stockbroker. During small talk the broker complains that his wife, a jeweler, had cleaned out all his old gold tie clasps and cufflinks that morning and gone ...
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Nov 14
Own the quote; own the economy
Last week we hosted our inaugural Re7 Social crypto social research day, with talks from Salvino, David Phillips, and Jacob Horne - founders who've iterated in this space more than most. One theme emerged: how asset-creation platforms capture value, or how value is captured in a world where the cost of creating tokens asymptotes to zero. The idea I'm taking seriously after this research day can be expressed in one line: token pairing is a clean business model for asset‑creation platforms - pa...
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Nov 14
Own the quote; own the economy
Last week we hosted our inaugural Re7 Social crypto social research day, with talks from Salvino, David Phillips, and Jacob Horne - founders who've iterated in this space more than most. One theme emerged: how asset-creation platforms capture value, or how value is captured in a world where the cost of creating tokens asymptotes to zero. The idea I'm taking seriously after this research day can be expressed in one line: token pairing is a clean business model for asset‑creation platforms - pa...
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You can practice thinking
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Oct 23
I always thought I couldn’t think in front of a computer. I was wrong. I just started this new practice to write for insights from my friend Rami. It’s called free writing: open a blank page, start a timer, and write about the topic until time’s up. I remember a couple of rules from Farza’s writing (a founder who built a fantastic simple text editor for this purpose):No editingDon’t stop to think or structure; keep writingThe intention is to create a stream of thought. It reminds me of David ...
You can practice thinking
Blog iconone small idea
Oct 23
I always thought I couldn’t think in front of a computer. I was wrong. I just started this new practice to write for insights from my friend Rami. It’s called free writing: open a blank page, start a timer, and write about the topic until time’s up. I remember a couple of rules from Farza’s writing (a founder who built a fantastic simple text editor for this purpose):No editingDon’t stop to think or structure; keep writingThe intention is to create a stream of thought. It reminds me of David ...
Hardware without the balance sheet
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Oct 22
Crypto excels at creating specialized hardware. I recently spoke with David, a founder who in under three years has influenced the creation of 84 solar farms generating 20MW of energy and about $20M in revenue. Glow, his company, uses crypto incentives to boost nearly profitable solar farms. His token mechanism has created farms that wouldn't exist otherwise. He core point in the conversation centered about the idea that that crypto has PMF for creating specialized hardware that meets arbitra...
Hardware without the balance sheet
Blog iconone small idea
Oct 22
Crypto excels at creating specialized hardware. I recently spoke with David, a founder who in under three years has influenced the creation of 84 solar farms generating 20MW of energy and about $20M in revenue. Glow, his company, uses crypto incentives to boost nearly profitable solar farms. His token mechanism has created farms that wouldn't exist otherwise. He core point in the conversation centered about the idea that that crypto has PMF for creating specialized hardware that meets arbitra...
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Sep 9
Turning Claude Code into my personal chief of staff
I've been thinking for a while about running Claude code as a general purpose personal assistant agent that has a) memory about me b) access to my main working tools and c) it's own computer and subagents or sub systems do process things on it's own. I've had these notes for a while, and have decided to publish them as a forcing mechanism to actually build this, and to crowdsource answers to some of my open design questions. I already built the MVP version of this for my CRM, but want to expa...
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Sep 9
Turning Claude Code into my personal chief of staff
I've been thinking for a while about running Claude code as a general purpose personal assistant agent that has a) memory about me b) access to my main working tools and c) it's own computer and subagents or sub systems do process things on it's own. I've had these notes for a while, and have decided to publish them as a forcing mechanism to actually build this, and to crowdsource answers to some of my open design questions. I already built the MVP version of this for my CRM, but want to expa...
The greatest bridge in crypto
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Mar 5
There aren’t many people in crypto. We’re still on the way to 'onboarding billions'. It’s because it is isolated from the daily applications people use. Crypto systems don’t interact with the apps and platforms where most are. It's not surprising. Building a fair and open system is part of the crypto vision, and that's orthogonal to how most tech platforms run. They are for the most part incompatible. The root of this incompatibility is data verifiability. User data in web 2 is not verifiable...
The greatest bridge in crypto
Blog iconone small idea
Mar 5
There aren’t many people in crypto. We’re still on the way to 'onboarding billions'. It’s because it is isolated from the daily applications people use. Crypto systems don’t interact with the apps and platforms where most are. It's not surprising. Building a fair and open system is part of the crypto vision, and that's orthogonal to how most tech platforms run. They are for the most part incompatible. The root of this incompatibility is data verifiability. User data in web 2 is not verifiable...
No hassle borrowing - how crypto and ZK change the business of lending?
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Aug 30
One of my favorite crypto use cases is borrowing for one-off expenses. I recently paid a large deposit. Instead of selling my savings acc...
No hassle borrowing - how crypto and ZK change the business of lending?
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Aug 30
One of my favorite crypto use cases is borrowing for one-off expenses. I recently paid a large deposit. Instead of selling my savings acc...
Virtual Power Plants
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Aug 29
This mini-series examines if the decentralization trend in energy networks makes crypto and DePin good for these markets.The grid is beco...
Virtual Power Plants
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Aug 29
This mini-series examines if the decentralization trend in energy networks makes crypto and DePin good for these markets.The grid is beco...
The problem of renewables in the energy grid
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Aug 28
The paradox of renewable energy is that the more sources there are, the more unstable the grid becomes.The grid is responsible for transp...
The problem of renewables in the energy grid
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Aug 28
The paradox of renewable energy is that the more sources there are, the more unstable the grid becomes.The grid is responsible for transp...
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How Farcaster wins
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Dec 2
New users come to Farcaster for two reasons: a) they find Warpcast a great social product and see their friends there and b) because of products built on the Farcaster protocol they want to use (like clanker, or super). The main driver for (a) is the good work of Dan, Varun and the Merkle factory team. Not much to say here besides noting their remarkable execution and prompt recovery from actions that arguably adversely impacted (b). (b) is the more interesting factor because it's the driver ...
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How Farcaster wins
Blog iconone small idea
Dec 2
New users come to Farcaster for two reasons: a) they find Warpcast a great social product and see their friends there and b) because of products built on the Farcaster protocol they want to use (like clanker, or super). The main driver for (a) is the good work of Dan, Varun and the Merkle factory team. Not much to say here besides noting their remarkable execution and prompt recovery from actions that arguably adversely impacted (b). (b) is the more interesting factor because it's the driver ...
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one small idea

daily (mostly) publication. I write to learn, sharing ideas and notes for what I find interesting

one small idea

daily (mostly) publication. I write to learn, sharing ideas and notes for what I find interesting

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Luc de Leyritz
Written by
Luc de Leyritz