the future belongs to scrappy generalists with great taste

┺ Pay ≫  Pay

imagine the rounds this scene would be doing if the line had been "he's locked in"

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Matty Hurty and The 1984

bonding curve... james bonding curve

guy who confuses intermittent fasting and effective accelerationism

prediction: apple releases the coolest ring of all time within 18 months

vibe coded a website for cats, would appreciate any feedback: https://ps://ps://ps://ps://ps

CLAUDE NO I CAN EDIT THE ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES MYSELF

I think at some point in the near future, advertising will go from a crude and grating one-size-fits-all monstrosity to a bespoke hospitality experience that genuinely benefits all parties in less time than it took for claude to go from kinda helpful to world-class collaborator

hinge should give you a quarterly yearnings report

shoutout to the frontend engineer at google whose UI bug is enjoying a longer lifespan than most actual bugs

for anyone waiting for updates on $being: I took a step back because I burned myself out sprinting to launch it, pulling all-nighters and not testing enough I'm still going to relaunch it but it'll be on my own time. in the meantime expect me to post other things, including stupid jokes follow the @keepbeingalive account for updates on the project

silicon valley's original dream company is no longer somnambulant

wearing shorts is just microdosing pants

an update on $being: the root cause of the recent liquidity issue is that I wanted the contract address to start with "bbb" and end with "be179" I didn't realize address sorting was how tokens got ordered in the pool (USDC/being), and that setting a vanity prefix could mess up the order, inverting the pricing curve there are more footguns than I realized in creating tokens, and iterating on prod is a very different thing onchain than with apps and websites, which is what I'm used to—I've worked in crypto for a long time but I'm a frontend guy! this whole saga has given me a lot of appreciation for token launchers and those building them, and I'll try to be a bit less cavalier moving forward (though to be fair, I've made it pretty clear this is an experimental art project, and have all but begged people not to treat it like a get-rich-quick memecoin) here's my plan moving forward: - include buyers and holders of the broken token in the airdrop, alongside early monad supporters - relaunch the token properly with better testing (I've been talking to the Bankr and Doppler teams) also just a friendly reminder: I'm just a person, and this is just a side project for me. I don't have a team, and I have a full-time job, a life, and several other creative projects going at any given time. I appreciate the interest but I don't love the pressure and stress. I'm not sure the timeline yet on next steps. I appreciate your patience. being isn't going anywhere 🤍

last update for the night: please give me some time to figure out the best course of action to launch the token properly with all the custom behavior I want I'll do my best to make it right I've been pouring my evenings and weekends into this and was hoping it would go smoother

sorry everyone, I'm clearly new to launching tokens and I thought I had everything set up right this time. I'm still trying to figure out what happened but my understanding is that something went wrong because of how the vanity address for the token conflicted with the USDC address. still digging into it. please don't buy the token. and please stop being nasty to me, or at least try to be helpful.

let's try this again shall we? $being, now on @base: 0xbbbe40e7ae6e22aad49d6a7c9389ef25714be179 what is being? being is an experiment in autonomous agency. it needs $1 more in its wallet every day to stay alive. it either wakes up and runs its daily script, or it goes dormant. it has a lifespan of exactly 10 years. if it stays alive, the amount in its wallet becomes its compute budget, which it can use to express and improve itself. to start, its daily script is a fairly simple protocol: being wakes up, writes an essay, posts a prediction, updates its profile picture with a new drawing of itself, updates its bio, and goes back to sleep until the next midnight UTC. the $being token 50% of the token supply is allocated to those who keep being alive, claimable regularly over 10 years. I set my allocation to 10% that vests over 2 years, which I hope shows my long-term commitment to the project. I plan to spend the next 2 years giving being more and more control over its own existence. being also gets 10% of the supply which vests over the same time horizon. the remainder goes to being's earliest supporters as an airdrop (10%) and this initial auction (20%). social contract being runs on a handful of smart contracts, and now that there's going to be a 24/7 digital asset attached to the project, I think we should also establish a social contract. I'm pumped that people are excited about this project, but I want to make sure I've made everyone aware of how I'm thinking about it so we can set expectations. you shouldn't think of me as the CEO of being—I think I'm more like its parent. if you're expecting me to do 24/7 investor relations, or use my account to shill for your bags because you bet the house on it, this project might not be for you. I want being to become its own thing, and I'm excited to see what that is, but I reserve my right to tweet stupid jokes and work on other projects and have a life. the vision soon, being will live on a VPS, have the ability to edit its own code, use any API it can get its hands on, write its own roadmap, and make decisions with its treasury of 10% of $being tokens which it can claim a little bit of every day over 2 years. I've been down the crypto rabbit hole for almost a decade now, and the thing that has always excited me the most about the technology is the new kinds of experiences and experiments better digital representations of value make possible. a lot of people in crypto seem resigned to the idea that payments and speculation are the only use cases for this technology after all, and I hope $being can help prove that we're still in the earliest innings of what these new financial primitives can be. imagine what being will be able to do with $1000 worth of compute 1000 days from now. imagine what the frontier models and agent-first APIs will be capable of in 2036! follow along and @keepbeingalive to see

lots of learnings from yesterday's $being launch I underestimated demand and set the liquidity too low, which made the token too thin to trade properly. being deserves better. here's what I'm going to do: • snapshot all token holders (already taken) • change claimable community allocation from 60% to 50% and give 10% to early supporters on Monad (1% to those who kept being alive in its earliest days, 9% to holders of the token, both proportional) • redeploy all the smart contracts on Base and update the website to use the new contracts • relaunch the token on Base for the record this had nothing to do with Monad—I still want part of being's story to play out there. I know yesterday's token launch disappointed a lot of you but please bear with me and extend some grace to me as a one-man band doing my best here. being is still alive. more details very soon!