Digital media has spent the last two decades trying to reinvent the economics of writing, and yet the industry remains stuck in a strange paradox: more people read news than ever before, but fewer are willing or able to pay for it. Out of this dilemma has emerged a new idea known as “writer coins.” The concept borrows from cryptocurrency logic and turns readership interest into a tradeable token that can support journalists directly. I recently experimented with this by launching a MAZ coin f...

Content warning: This post contains descriptions of domestic violence and difficult subject matter. Her voice reached me, but my expression stayed vacant, my mind hollowed, and my hands still.

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Clipping season is here. We debuted our new clipping app at Daniel Allan’s free show in NYC last night - a release party for his new track “In the Middle” which marks Coop Recs first traditional label release. We’re shaking things up over here - getting in the weeds with fans at shows and offering them a product which lets them earn cash by sharing viral videos from the show. Pair that with new releases from Subtronics & Illenium, Tisoki and more and we’re firing on all cylinders The currents...

NamehashLabs launches Referral RewardsEndowment Fee Structure UpdateNovember's Financial Report is LivePublic Goods Working Group publishes Term 6 ReportFireEyes kicks off DAO retrospective ensdao.eth @ENS_DAO Proposal Live: Run a retrospective on DAO spending, outputs, goals, and accountability. If passed, Steward terms extend for four months, suspending elections until an onchain vote or until the retro concludes and informs the next SPP cycle. Vote here: snapshot.org/#/s:ens.eth/pr… 1 11:5...

I am working to build passive income through internet-based businesses to sustainably support my ability to continue to work on whatever I want. I am approaching a stage of life when I understand it can become harder to continue prioritizing working on what I want versus trading some of my autonomy for a job which will more dependably earn significant income. This “stage” that I speak of involves buying a house with a mortgage, having kids, and starting to build a family, all of which tend to...

December's first round of fixtures has come and gone, and they produced plenty of drama as expected. We got the highest scoring game of the season so far, a surprise victory by a relegation team, and the second highest scoring game of the season in a Midlands derby. And it's still only round one. Premier League action resumes tomorrow, but before then, here are the winners and losers from this round of games.Losers: Manchester UnitedEvery time Manchester United have a chance to climb up the t...

I wrote previously about the threat of a Trump dictatorship. That was in 2020 which seems like a long time ago. After I wrote that post we got close to disaster when Trump attempted in various ways to stay in power despite the election results. We are now in the second Trump term and the situation is considerably worse. Back then I wrote that “... I deem it unlikely that Trump has a masterplan for becoming a dictator. Then again he probably didn’t have a masterplan for becoming president but ...

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In poker, the big blind is a mandatory bet you have to make if you are two seats to the left of the dealer. In the world of geothermal energy, the big blind is finding a huge source of heat underground where there are no obvious clues on the land surface above. Our portfolio company Zanskar has been using advanced AI models to prospect for geothermal sites. As this article in MIT Technology Review explains:The first step to identifying a new site is to use regional AI models to search large a...