many such cases ep 14: blocks, boosts, rewards, mini-apps

Jonny and Ted share their reactions and thoughts on the potential impact of Warpcast’s newest features: blocks, boosts, and $5 USDC Warpcast rewards. For the hundredth time, they also explore specific ways in which channel could be a viable pathway to scale the best aspects of Farcaster that they remember from the early days: finding and building authentic community. Last, they visit the potential of mini apps and deep links as a richer UX and dev solution to the limitations of frames. Enjoy! 00:00 Introduction: rebrand and Jonny’s design process 03:30 Blocks: how can this enhance (or hurt) user control over conversations? 10:15: $5 USDC Warpcast Rewards and Boosts: will this actually result in quality content from new users? 20:00: Reply Culture: how can we recreate engagement from early days? 27:00: Channels: how can channels scale the network? 36:00: Channel Ecosystem: what are specific ideas to help improve channel content? 40:00: Mini-apps: could these be the next solution for a richer dev and user experience?

many such cases ep 13: explore, moxie, twitter crossposting, and channels

In this comeback conversation, Ted and Jonny discuss their takes on the new Explore page, the impact of the new Moxie protocol on the Warpcast experience, what it means for the Network School to be built “on Farcaster”, and the stagnant, yet promising nature of channels against the challenge of quality content. 00:00 Introduction and episode overview 01:14 How we’re feeling about the Explore Page and what we want to see next 11:14 Understanding Moxie and its impact on our Warpcast experience 21:20 Why experiments are important to Farcaster 26:50 Twitter celebrities cross-posting: good or bad? 36:23 What it means for the Network School to be built on Farcaster 37:20 Channel check-in (in lieu of a feelings check-in)

#10: Automating Self-Regulation

#10: Automating Self-Regulation Learning to Solve Future Problems, Now Before we consider what actions to automate, it is important to ask: what actions should we automate? It's very easy to get lost in the details of automation, trying to automate everything we can, without considering what is actually worth automating. The best way (in my opinion) to determine which tasks are worth automating is to identify the actions in our lives that either (1) take the longest or (2) cause us the most stress (dysregulation). Next, apply the Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule) to see which of these actions are having the greatest impact on our time and stress. The 80/20 rule is that 80% of outputs are caused by 20% of inputs. Almost everything in life follows this principle... The written version of this podcast can be read at https://www.wanderloots.com/recalibrating-10 Welcome to the Recalibrating Podcast 🧭 ✨ Join me as I explore the depth of what the world has to offer. Learn to better life in every way possible, reflecting and recalibrating along the way to keep from getting too lost. Thanks for sharing the journey with me ✨ I hope that you enjoy this episode of Recalibrating, thanks for listening! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes and support my work. ABOUT ME My name is Callum, also known as wanderloots. I am an intellectual property lawyer, patent agent, blockchain specialist, photographer, animator, videographer, writer, and I studied engineering. I quit my job to pursue a life of creativity while teaching people along the way. The world is changing more rapidly than ever before. Learning how to deal with change and recalibrate is the best skill I can learn, and hopefully the best skill I can teach you ✨

#9: Mental Safety From AI-nxiety

#9: Mental Safety From AI-nxiety Learning to Live With AI Continuing on Maslow's Hierarchy Level 2 with Financial Security and Mental Safety from Entries 6-8, this week I am going to touch on artificial intelligence (AI). This topic is massive. It's hard to emphasize how much detail and research goes into truly understanding AI. I have been researching AI for many years, much more seriously since 2020. I still feel as though I am barely scratching the surface. But that's okay. Understanding even some of the basics can provide a solid foundation for understanding the current and future impact of AI. Before we get to the stage of using AI to bolster Financial Security through future-proofing and automation, let's take a few minutes to address the Mental Safety component ✨ The goal of this entry is not to teach you everything about AI, that would be impossible. The goal is to identify a few concepts that will hopefully teach you about why AI is in the news so much lately and help alleviate the "AI-nxiety" that comes from public mass hysteria over change. Much of this anxiety arises from trying to deal with the uncertainty of AI. The written version of this podcast can be read at www.wanderloots.com/recalibrating-9 Welcome to the Recalibrating Podcast 🧭 ✨ Join me as I explore the depth of what the world has to offer. Learn to better life in every way possible, reflecting and recalibrating along the way to keep from getting too lost. Thanks for sharing the journey with me ✨ I hope that you enjoy this episode of Recalibrating, thanks for listening! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes and support my work. ABOUT ME My name is Callum, also known as wanderloots. I am an intellectual property lawyer, patent agent, blockchain specialist, photographer, animator, videographer, writer, and I studied engineering. I quit my job to pursue a life of creativity while teaching people along the way. The world is changing more rapidly than ever before. Learning how to deal with change and recalibrate is the best skill I can learn, and hopefully the best skill I can teach you ✨

#8: Creating Income Without Burnout

#8: Creating Income Without Burnout Maximizing Momentum and Minimizing Friction Last week in Entry #7, I touched on quite a few topics related to Building a Sustainable Creation System for creating income without burnout. I explained how we can use data, information, and knowledge to direct the impact of our efforts when we share creations (including knowledge work) with others. In particular, I discussed the concepts of Natural Self-Expression, Self-Reflection, the Creator Economy, and Sustainable Creation. This week, we will continue analyzing Goal #2 from Entry #6: Structure a habit and task system that enables me to consistently build income to a level that meets my needs without burning myself out. Let's make the framework from last week more concrete by touching on how we can create actual income while minimizing burnout. Welcome to the Recalibrating Podcast 🧭 ✨ Join me as I explore the depth of what the world has to offer. Learn to better life in every way possible, reflecting and recalibrating along the way to keep from getting too lost. Thanks for sharing the journey with me ✨ I hope that you enjoy this episode of Recalibrating, thanks for listening! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes and support my work. ABOUT ME My name is Callum, also known as wanderloots. I am an intellectual property lawyer, patent agent, blockchain specialist, photographer, animator, videographer, writer, and I studied engineering. I quit my job to pursue a life of creativity while teaching people along the way. The world is changing more rapidly than ever before. Learning how to deal with change and recalibrate is the best skill I can learn, and hopefully the best skill I can teach you ✨

#7: Building A Sustainable Creation System

#7: Building A Sustainable Creation System Analyzing Natural Self-Expression To Identify Existing Value Last week, we considered how to achieve the seemingly paradoxical combination of financial security and mental safety by looking at Level 2 of Maslow's hierarchy for guidance. To achieve this balance, I proposed two major goals: Generate sufficient income to satisfy my needs (food, debt, mortgage, retirement savings); Structure a habit and task system that enables me to consistently build income to a level that meets my needs without burning myself out. Last week we focused on goal #1. Let's move on to goal #2 ✨ This entry was originally published on August 5, 2023 and is available at www.wanderloots.com/recalibrating-7 Welcome to the Recalibrating Podcast 🧭 ✨ Join me as I explore the depth of what the world has to offer. Learn to better life in every way possible, reflecting and recalibrating along the way to keep from getting too lost. Thanks for sharing the journey with me ✨ I hope that you enjoy this episode of Recalibrating, thanks for listening! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes and support my work. ABOUT ME My name is Callum, also known as wanderloots. I am an intellectual property lawyer, patent agent, blockchain specialist, photographer, animator, videographer, writer, and I studied engineering. I quit my job to pursue a life of creativity while teaching people along the way. The world is changing more rapidly than ever before. Learning how to deal with change and recalibrate is the best skill I can learn, and hopefully the best skill I can teach you ✨

many such cases ep 12: building for high-quality content with @dwr

on this episode (recorded “like a year ago”), @dwr joins @ted and @nonlinear to discuss the number one priority for farcaster right now: the challenge in creating a sustainable supply of quality content. we cover user engagement metrics, the current state of channels and what they could become, and how the team is thinking about enabling high-quality content through new features. @dwr also shares some of his insights on the power of text-based content and cultures on social platforms like twitter and what the emergence of AI-generated content may mean for these platforms. 00:39 farcaster’s top priority 01:29 challenges and strategies for building communities 07:30 reducing the barrier to high-quality content 15:20 the dominance of text-based content 18:35 in-group culture, power of memes, and AI-generated content 25:25 the future of channels

#6: Financial Security and Mental Safety

#6: Financial Security and Mental Safety Prioritizing Individual Mental Models for Income Generation In this Entry, we are going to move on to the second layer of Maslow's Hierarchy. Now that we've covered the basics in Entries 1-5, let's continue on the path of self-actualization. The next layer of Maslow's hierarchy is security and safety needs. I generally associate this level with having a place to live and money to buy what I need (not want) in life. I need to be able to pay for food, debt, mortgage, and retirement savings. Having quit my job (see Entry #1), I know that I do not have the luxury of focusing solely on the base level of the Burnout Recovery pyramid, I also need to earn income. I want to earn income in a way that does not bring me back to a burnout phase like my last job. Additionally, I want to earn income while I am recovering from burnout. That is no small task. Welcome to the Recalibrating Podcast 🧭 ✨ Join me as I explore the depth of what the world has to offer. Learn to better life in every way possible, reflecting and recalibrating along the way to keep from getting too lost. Thanks for sharing the journey with me ✨ I hope that you enjoy this episode of Recalibrating, thanks for listening! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes and support my work. ABOUT ME My name is Callum, also known as wanderloots. I am an intellectual property lawyer, patent agent, blockchain specialist, photographer, animator, videographer, writer, and I studied engineering. I quit my job to pursue a life of creativity while teaching people along the way. The world is changing more rapidly than ever before. Learning how to deal with change and recalibrate is the best skill I can learn, and hopefully the best skill I can teach you ✨

#5: Intuitively Onwards, Inwards, and Upwards

#5: Intuitively Onwards, Inwards, and Upwards Procrastination, Emotional Regulation, and Intuitive Creation Systems In this entry, I discuss how to break the loop of procrastination and overthinking. The goal is to recognize when I am in a loop, going in circles. By taking a mindful moment, I can reassess the situation and then intuitively take a different path. That path may not always be forwards 👀 I also talk about how the success of my physical habits has helped deepen my mental and creative habits. Rather than staying in the loop of logical productivity, I mindfully break the loop through intuition. As you read, take a moment to set a mindful intention: think about where you are looping in your life. Are there habits you are blocking yourself from starting due to procrastination? Are you ready? Let's get started ✨ Welcome to the Recalibrating Podcast 🧭 ✨ Join me as I explore the depth of what the world has to offer. Learn to better life in every way possible, reflecting and recalibrating along the way to keep from getting too lost. Thanks for sharing the journey with me ✨ I hope that you enjoy this episode of Recalibrating, thanks for listening! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes and support my work. ABOUT ME My name is Callum, also known as wanderloots. I am an intellectual property lawyer, patent agent, blockchain specialist, photographer, animator, videographer, writer, and I studied engineering. I quit my job to pursue a life of creativity while teaching people along the way. The world is changing more rapidly than ever before. Learning how to deal with change and recalibrate is the best skill I can learn, and hopefully the best skill I can teach you ✨

#4: Beginning With Breath

Entry #4: Beginning With Breath Habit Stacking on a Foundation of Breathing One week into my "funemployment" I decided to take some time to look back and reflect on what I had accomplished and how I could improve next week. I actually still felt a bit burnt out; the opposite of my intentions. My system was not fully working. Something still needed to change. I realized that, while I had laid out my best intentions to maintain my physical and mental health by prioritizing them in my habits, I ended up falling into the productivity trap. I felt a pressure to get my business started as quickly as possible. I have had many ideas over the last 5 years and I was so excited to get started on them that I wanted to start them all at once 🤦‍♂️ Welcome to the Recalibrating Podcast 🧭 ✨ Join me as I explore the depth of what the world has to offer. Learn to better life in every way possible, reflecting and recalibrating along the way to keep from getting too lost. Thanks for sharing the journey with me ✨ I hope that you enjoy this episode of Recalibrating, thanks for listening! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes and support my work. This podcast episode is the voiceover of my 4th Recalibrating entry, published July 15, 2023. The original newsletter can be read here: https://www.wanderloots.com/recalibrating-4 ABOUT ME My name is Callum, also known as wanderloots. I am an intellectual property lawyer, patent agent, blockchain specialist, photographer, animator, videographer, writer, and I studied engineering. I quit my job to pursue a life of creativity while teaching people along the way. The world is changing more rapidly than ever before. Learning how to deal with change and recalibrate is the best skill I can learn, and hopefully the best skill I can teach you ✨

many such cases 11: feet, frames, long casts, and a surprise guest

on this episode, @ted and @nonlinear.eth are joined by special guest, @v, to kick off a discussion about longer casts and frames — but not until after they cover the recent trend of [redacted] that is both a hysterical and mortifying case study in farcaster virality. after getting the rundown on longer cast intentions and current developer (and consumer) pain points on frames, we focus on exploring the potential for better content creation that enhances the entertainment value and social experience on farcaster. we share the frame experiences we love most as well as offer new ideas for more entertainment-driven, less utility-driven frames. last, we revisit the current zeitgeist on power badges and content discovery through the lens of marketplace dynamics. we could be midcurving it, but it made pretty good sense to us.

many such cases 10: nook shuts down, emerging cozy corners, and a new farcaster fight

In this episode, Ted and Jonny discuss the recent news about Nook shutting down and explore the explore different strategies @dwr recommended for building on (or alongside) farcaster as developers, creators, and potentially independent business owners. Ted and Jonny then cover some of the emerging cozy corners on Farcaster, such as FBI (Farcaster Builders India), First Draft, Tabletop, Lounge, Club Ted, and Higher Run Club. Last, Ted and Jonny wrap it up with a quick discussion about a recent controversy on Farcaster involving the authenticity of certain Instagram-like accounts.

Ep.28: Zora acquires Mint.Fun, $FRIEND, Blast szn, Farcaster Incentives

A weekly rundown show where extremely online individuals broadly explore (romanticize, even) new consumer internet experiences. Join us live and online on Fridays @ 1PM EST live.seedclub.xyz 00:23 Intro - Welcome back, it’s episode 28 of Internet Explorers, thanks for those who joined us IRL last week 03:23 Let’s bring Worm Emoji up to the stage to talk about Mint.Fun, Rug.Fun, Context and more 04:40 Worm gives an overview of his journey into crypto and creating Context - the first Web3 social feed 07:51 What did you learn from growing these products and ultimately selling them to bigger companies 14:43 Rug.Fun is all over the timeline, make sure to go claim your airdrop if you haven’t already 17:23 Experimenting with how you can change the way people think about memecoins 21:39 Productizing memecoin consensus building and the big opportunity with becoming the shilling point 25:22 Building chat features into the products your building as a growth mechanism 30:10 Another edition of WTFIPDOC - WTF is Peace doing on-chain - a follow up on Runemilio 37:51 Some new Farcaster incentives coming out of FarCon and the call for more clients 43:21 The inevitability of this being a consumer cycle in crypto and 3 new products that broke into the top 15 49:16 A segue into another consumer product - Friend.Tech and an update on their token launch 54:14 It’s obvious Blast is putting a lot into promoting projects and tokens and NFTs on their network 57:39 Tremp token and the political attention thesis playing out in real time, plus Trump’s take on NFTs 59:01 That’s it for this week, thanks for tuning in, we’ll see you next week at 10am PST / 1pm EST. Enjoy! Hosts: Josh Cornelius & Jess Sloss Web VJ: Peacenode Production: Cheryl Douglass None of this is financial or tax advice.

#3: Building Habits From The Ground Up

Entry #3: Building Habits From The Ground Up Satisfying the Basic Needs of Maslow's Hierarchy To not only reach self-actualization, but also to reach it consistently, I knew that I would need to start from the beginning. I needed to undergo a complete change in my daily approach to life. Based on my goals and personality, I knew I would benefit from adding structure to my days in a way that introduced continuous building. Each day, a new building block can be formed that can connect to the previous day to build towards the person I have always been meant to be. For me, and I think most people, each step on the path to self-actualization can be stabilized by meeting the basic physical and mental needs (the bottom layer of Maslow's hierarchy). This foundation makes sense: I know that my ideal me is not someone who is unhealthy and unhappy. But what is my ideal me? That is a question for each of us to decide. Welcome to the Recalibrating Podcast 🧭 ✨ Join me as I explore the depth of what the world has to offer. Learn to better life in every way possible, reflecting and recalibrating along the way to keep from getting too lost. Thanks for sharing the journey with me ✨ I hope that you enjoy this episode of Recalibrating, thanks for listening! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes and support my work. This podcast episode is the voiceover of my 3rd Recalibrating entry, published July 8, 2023. The original newsletter can be read here: https://www.wanderloots.com/recalibrating-3 ABOUT ME My name is Callum, also known as wanderloots. I am an intellectual property lawyer, patent agent, blockchain specialist, photographer, animator, videographer, writer, and I studied engineering. I quit my job to pursue a life of creativity while teaching people along the way. The world is changing more rapidly than ever before. Learning how to deal with change and recalibrate is the best skill I can learn, and hopefully the best skill I can teach you ✨