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Thoughts on /enjoy, /metaliminal, and everything else.

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zora needs more interesting content

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prob have to stop writing all these ad-hoc casts about zora and publish a proper article. imo no doubt the protocol is the most powerful nft publishing tool to-date, but: 1) the protocol mechanics are misunderstood by creators 2) the app is at odds w/ the protocol and creators 3) damaged brand equity w/ creators

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you don't give your work away for free on zora. you actually sell 1111 editions for a total of ~$300. once they're sold they can be traded on secondary automatically with creator royalties. $.30 entry fee for casuals. no upper bound for serious supporters. this is the best onchain model and it's not close.

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Some Zora math: - 1 mint = 111 sparks - 200 mints = 22,200 sparks - 20,000 mints = 2,220,000 sparks 20,000 mints = minimum secondary threshold for a contract w/ 100 tokens = 2.2 eth + secondary fees I don't it's hard for artists with success on other platforms to reach 20K mints, even w/ less than 100 tokens

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It's not a free mint meta it's a pay-what-you-want meta The mint phase is like a reverse dutch auction, with the exception that there's a guaranteed minimum to launch (200 for now). In this meta, collectors have more agency and more influence over the value of assets.

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sorting by popularity is kind of interesting https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x479a2c48acef9fddff93baedfee34ea308a481dc?sort=popularity

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Time to crack this one back open. At nearly 400 pages and filled with some borderline nonsense, Strategy is Your Words was the most surprising and valuable business book I ever read. If there's one book I'd recommend to those over indexing on engineering, it's this one.

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33% lied lol. i feel like platforms like wc and twitter take more than they give. winning the algo is a job, and participating results in endless notifications that aren't easy to navigate. i hope the changes to channels bring about a cozier feeling

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I thought making a channel for /lobotomy-v1 would be a useful way to catalogue all the mints and enable notifications, but it seems to provide significantly worse distribution. Maybe nobody likes the work. Maybe I need to be a reply guy. Maybe I'll qc in other channels later. Idk

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/lobotomy-v1 has been in my brain since 2022. Back then, it was called PARADISE_V2. It was supposed to be a "vacation album". I spent a lot of time in Nantucket, so it was 90% of my material. Nantucket became somewhat painful, and the multi-location framework wasn't feeling right, so the project sat on the shelf. I wanted to mint on the Zora protocol and get these memories out of my brain. It forced a simplification of the concept: just Nantucket. With one location, the story would make sense (reverse) chronologically. No need for metadata. Diving in and realizing how fascinating it is to edit photos 2 years after they were taken. Particularly bc I'm editing fuji film sim jpegs; what I'm editing is already post-processed. I'm collabing with 2022 photographer and editor me. It's a weird emotional and stylistic exercise and it's cathartic af. enjoy 💔❗❗❗

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Take this complaint functionally, not emotionally: It's wild that my recent posts garner <10 likes on avg. I don't farm out of principle and limited bandwidth, but should I have to to earn engagement? If we assume 5k/50k+ followers are real (still feels generous), the % is silly.

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Tipping tokens are liable to becoming a burden, especially if the incentive weakens. Sense this with enjoy, though not as strongly as with degen, rare, etc. What if solving that internal problem was a bonus when solving for an external problem? A token can't survive if it doesn't solve an external issue. See degen

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Lobotomy was a long time coming. While most of my work over the last two years was conceptual, Lobotomy is a story with a beginning and end. It's my most personal work and it will be cathartic to finally publish it

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i've heard so many builders say they don't pay attention to the competition pffffffffffftttttt there is so much to learn. imagine not having to make a particular mistake, or not having to take the risk on a particular success

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