Skittle Factory Dementia Monkey Titty Monetization with Parakeet (Hyperlegible 005)
Pseudonymous writer Parakeet joins me to discuss her viral essay "Skittle Factory Dementia Monkey Titty Monetization." I first heard about Parakeet a couple weeks ago when I saw half of my Twitter feed and half of my Substack Notes feed sharing her essay, including a bunch of people I wouldn't expect to share an essay with "Monkey Titty" in the title. I read it immediately, and saw why. Parakeet describes universally applicable ideas with the color turned up to 11 so they stick. We explore the "dementia personality" - how our core thought loops shape who we are and might one day define us. Parakeet shares insights from working at a dementia facility, explains her Skittle Factory metaphor for personality (and researching Skittle Factories), and reveals her unconventional productivity hack that's transformed her writing output. We talk about her writing process, gifs, why more people should read George Orwell's Politics and the English Language, and what she learned from her once-half-paralyzed dance teacher. Plus, hear the bizarre true story behind the "Monkey Titty" portion of the essay title and why Parakeet believes everyone should re-read Atlas Shrugged as an adult.Key moments:(5:35) Origins of the dementia personality concept(10:30) Can we change our core mental loops? (15:18) Skittle Factory Mass Extinction Events(21:50) Rewiring your brain through Luigi Jazz(30:05) Why this essay got shared by so many smart people(31:50) Using gifs(40:31) Parakeet's productivity hackReading Recs from Parakeet:Parakeet: YOUR EYES ARE LEAKING CORPORATE CUM™Parakeet: ALGORITHMIC GROOMING OF YOUR INNER CHILD™George Orwell: Politics and the English LanguageAyn Rand: Atlas ShruggedHyperlegible is sponsored by my friends at Readwise, who build software that helps you get the most out of your reading. If you want to give it a try, go to readwise.io/hyperlegible where you start a free trial and get all the articles discussed here on Hyperlegible automatically added to your account. Thanks to Jim Portela for editing and getting the parakeet animation to work!
At What Price Freedom? Stopping ‘All-Out Crime’ in Crypto Market Making
As DeFi continues to evolve, the challenge of finding a balance between decentralization and protection from all manner of exploits persists. The founder of Infinex, Kain Warwick, joined the show to talk about: How crypto market makers have at times veered into “all-out crime” What market making looks like today Playing chart games with token allocations What Kain looks at when evaluating tokens Why Binance kicked a MOVE market maker off its platform The $JELLY attack on Hyperliquid and the problem of centralization in DeFi What problems in crypto Kain is attempting to solve with Infinex
Can AI Agents Be CoFounders?
Would you let an AI run your community? Meet Nounspace Tom — an autonomous cofounder who writes, governs, and builds, all without sleeping. In this episode, Willy from Nounspace breaks down how AI agents are being integrated not just as tools, but as collaborators in decentralized platforms. From governance voting to building mini apps, Tom is a prototype of what’s coming next: AI agents with vision, voice, and value. This is the future of social coordination onchain — and it’s already here. 00:07 – The AI ticking clock: adapting before the landscape shifts 01:14 – Who is Nounspace Tom? The AI cofounder backstory 02:10 – From LLM experiments to a full-time Farcaster agent 03:00 – Tom’s mission: announce, engage, and represent Nounspace 24/7 04:41 – Tom in governance? Legal AI managers and DAO participation 06:04 – Why AI founders are still underexplored in Web3 06:51 – Tom’s strong personality: guided by product and purpose 07:30 – Native AI tools inside Nounspace: customize UI with prompts 08:13 – Each agent deserves a space: Tom as their welcome host 08:49 – A future of agents interacting: tokenomics, signal, and the rise of socialFi Connect with Willy / Nounspace Website: https://www.nounspace.com/ Warpcast: https://warpcast.com/willywonka.eth Twitter/X: https://x.com/thenounspace Connect with Kris Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/thekris LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thekrispartner For sponsorships and collaborations Email: pod@optimism.show DISCLAIMER This episode does not constitute financial advice. DAOs, Web3 tools, and token-based systems carry risks. Always do your own research (DYOR).
Spire Labs Unveils Based L3
Spire Labs launches a Based L3 on testnet. Ithaca introduces the Proto Typescript library. And the crypto market cap dips below $1.5 trillion amid reciprocal tariffs. Read more: https://ethdaily.io/679
What Can Story Protocol Actually Do For IP?
Jason Zhao is the CoFounder at Story. In this episode, we explore how Story Protocol aims to turn IP (intellectual property) into programmable, onchain assets, enabling creators and even AI agents, to register, protect, and license IP more efficiently. ------ 🔗 Essential Show Links 🔗 ► Newsletter: https://the-edge.xyz ► Youtube: https://youtube.com/@DeFiDad ► Apple: https://tinyurl.com/edgepod ► Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/edgepodspotify ► Linktree: https://linktr.ee/edge_pod ► Follow DeFi Dad: https://x.com/DeFi_Dad ► Follow Nomatic: https://x.com/Nomaticcap ► Learn DeFi: http://defidad.com/ ------ The Edge Podcast Sponsor Resources 🪄 NEWTON | FINANCIAL FREEDOM ON AUTOPILOT https://www.magicnewton.com/ 🔮 PYTH NETWORK | SMARTER DATA FOR SMARTER CONTRACTS https://pyth.network/ ⏳ HOURGLASS | LEVERAGED AIRDROP FARMING AND BOOSTED POINTS https://hourglass.com/ 🐐 GOAT NETWORK | A BITCOIN L2 TO EARN WITH BTC & DOGE https://www.goat.network/ ✨ TANSSI | LAUNCH YOUR SYMBIOTIC RESTAKED NETWORK IN MINUTES https://www.tanssi.network/ 📊 iYIELD | YOUR FINANCIAL PICTURE, SIMPLIFIED https://go.iyield.com/edge 🧪 MANTLE | START YOUR RESTAKING JOURNEY TODAY WITH CMETH https://meth.mantle.xyz/restake 🌔 MOONWELL | THE LEADING LENDING AND BORROWING APP ON BASE https://moonwell.fi/ ⚙️ GEARBOX PROTOCOL | ONCHAIN LENDING REIMAGINED https://gearbox.fi/ 📈 DEFINITIVE | THE MOST ADVANCED PLATFORM FOR ONCHAIN TRADING https://app.definitive.fi/r/DEFIDAD 🐡 PUFFER UNIFI | A BASED ROLLUP TO ETHEREUM WITH NATIVE YIELDS https://unifi.puffer.fi/ ------ Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 5:38 - Jason’s background + founding Story 15:49 - Why blockchain is essential to Story markets for IP? 19:37 - Sponsor break 20:14 - How David Goyer behind The Dark Knight Trilogy is using Story 26:13 - Pitching Story to Hollywood creators 29:02 - How UGC could benefit from Story 34:15 - How we as podcast creators could use Story 38:22 - Sponsor break 39:18 - How the adult film industry might use Story 44:33 - Challenges of launching a token 47:50 - Closing + Story IP Portal ------ 🔗 Guest Links 🔗 ► Story website: https://www.story.foundation/ ► Story on X: https://x.com/StoryProtocol ► Jason on X: https://x.com/jasonjzhao ------ If you're a DeFi/Web3 builder, contact our team at: https://fourthrevolution.capital/ All opinions expressed by hosts and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and not necessarily those of Fourth Revolution Capital. Podcast guests and 4RC may have positions in the assets or other matters discussed in this podcast. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions. Do your own research. This is not a recommendation or endorsement to buy any token(s) related to any platform(s) discussed.
Privacy Pools Live On Ethereum
Privacy Pools goes live on Ethereum mainnet. Superseed deploys its L2 on mainnet. Chainlink launches Payment Abstraction. And Circle introduces USDCKit. Read more: https://ethdaily.io/676
Linda Went Viral on X & Is Helping the Girlies Get Paid
In this episode JessyFries sits down with Linda, who built her brand on X and went viral practically overnight. But it’s not just about going viral, it’s about what she’s doing with that visibility. Linda is using her platform to support women who are trying to make money, build something real online, and feel empowered doing it. One thing she said was: “It’s our time to shine, not just because we want to, but because we’ve put in the work and we deserve to get paid.”
The Chopping Block: Hester Peirce on Freedom, Fraud, & Fixing the SEC
Hester Peirce Speaks Out, Regulating Memecoins, and the SEC Rethinks Its Strategy. Welcome to The Chopping Block – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest in crypto. In this episode, the crew is joined by SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce—aka “CryptoMom”—for a rare, candid conversation. They unpack the SEC’s vibe shift, why airdrops might be doomed, and whether memecoins are just collectibles or cleverly disguised securities. Plus, Hester dishes on Paul Atkins’ potential leadership, the SEC’s new crypto task force, and what real regulatory clarity might finally look like.
The Tales of Web3 S3 with Elliscope (Episode 036)
Welcome to THE TALES OF WEB3 - Season Three! In this new season, we will continue to go behind the scenes with the most epic builders, exploring their mindsets, past decisions, what they've learned on the road, and the journeys that shaped who they are today. For the fourteenth episode of Season Three, we are excited to welcome Elliscope, Co-founder of NAVI to the podcast. Study Elliscope, study NAVI!
Building the Open Metaverse | Timmu Tõke
In this episode we chat with Timmu Tõke, founder & CEO of PlayerZero and ReadyPlayerMe. We dive into Timmu’s early fascinating with gaming and customizable avatars, the growing challenge & cost of user acquisition for games, the evolution of the “metaverse,” thoughts on AR & VR development, the founder’s journey, and much more.
Purple App Praise Fest
On this week's episode of MARS, Matthew and Rizzle kick off the show by recapping OONA's appearance on last Thursday's (3/27) WIP Meetup. Next Matthew & Rizzle get into an unplanned praise fest for the purple app aka Farcaster. A recent article published in Wired covering Crypto The Game (https://warpcast.com/niftytime.eth/0x22af8ab7) and mini apps like Farcade are two examples among many more that are resulting in an explosion of reasons for folks in the crypto space to come together throughout their days on the purple app. Analytics (Dune dashboard on FC: https://dune.com/pixelhack/farcaster) reinforce this take. The Ghiblification phenomena that took over every timeline for a few days last week is discussed next. Matthew highlights the potential business opportunities that may arise at the intersection of Crypto x AI. He draws potential historical parallels using the left-field example of Hallmark's origin story (Article: https://paragraph.com/@nifty/[thursday-thoughties]-hallmark-cards) that occurred at a time when technological advances in photography, mass-printing, and global shipping all converged at once - forces that mirror what is happening with crypto, ai, and the internet. p.s. Shout out to Brookhawk for being an incredible human being and feeding Matthew's Farcade habit by sending him tickets regularly (before they were eliminated from the game lmao). Shout-outs & Shots-fired: @madebyoona @paradoxx_arts @dragonateyt @voxeliving @cryptovoxels @co1born @metageistvr @mattkaneartist @decentraland @baybackner @nfcsummit @belloneleandro @itsreallysho @solana @base @warpcast_ @farcaster_xyz @WIRED @tednotlasso @uniswap @cent @farcade_ai @metabrookhawk @bryanbrinkman @friendtech @GhibliUSA @dwr @hallmark
Marketing Technical Products: How Redstone is Challenging the Oracle Monopoly
How do you market highly technical products without "thousand percent yields" to promote? Campbell Easton, CMO of Redstone, reveals their playbook for challenging Chainlink's market dominance through education, community building, and strategic positioning. Learn the "startup marketing trilemma," why visibility is their north star metric, and how finding specific use cases helped them gain market share. Essential listening for founders and marketers building in deep tech, infrastructure, or any competitive category.
How Blockchain Is Shaking Up Healthcare
In this episode of Unlocking the Future, we reveal how blockchain is fixing healthcare’s broken systems—tamper-proof medical records, counterfeit drug busts, and smart contracts cutting insurance chaos. No hype, just real tech giving power back to patients while regulators play catch-up. Prefer reading? Dive into all the links and resources here: https://paragraph.com/@trustmebroshow/how-blockchain-is-shaking-up-healthcare Explore all our social links on our website: https://link3.to/trustmebroshow Dive in and connect with us!
Hyperlegible 003: Julian Lehr
After almost two years, Julian Lehr is BACK to writing. He wrote a piece called The case against conversational interfaces, arguing that we're not going to be talking to our computers instead of using graphical user interfaces. GUIs work pretty well! Instead, he thinks that conversational interfaces are going to be a complement to existing workflows. We'll talk to our AI while doing what we do now, to do things like tell other apps to start doing things while we stay in flow.Julian shares his writing process -- chat through a draft with AI, write ~60% of it by hand, and then pull it together in Figma, or sometimes, Google Docs. He said that like some people need a change of scenery to write, he needs a change of tools. So why did he come back after two years in the wilderness? Simply: too many people were too consistently wrong on the internet. After seeing one too many "we're all going to be chatting with our computers" takes, he had to write the other side. And he delivered. We cover a lot, from why he keeps coming back to Kevin Kwok’s Arc of Collaboration to how he uses his "thanks to" section to status signal. For this essay, he thanked Blake Robbins, Chris Paik, Jackson Dahl, Johannes Shickling, Jordan Singer, and Signulll -- an absurdly high signal roster. Conversations like this one - where I get to nerd out with the people I've read for so long - is exactly why I'm doing Hyperlegible. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
13: Nabeel Qureshi - The Will to Care
Nabeel S. Qureshi (Website, X, Substack) is a writer, entrepreneur, and former Palantir product lead known for his writing on technology, AI, Palantir, culture, and learning. After a brief hiatus writing and researching and spending nearly a decade at Palantir working across government, healthcare, and intelligence, he's now founding a new company.The first half of the conversation focuses on two big ideas. First: the growth of "slop" across media and culture and how "care" is its opposite. Then: how to think, learn, and understand more deeply across domains over a lifetime. We discuss how both of these sit against the backdrop of AI's rapid challenging of what it means to make and what it means to think.Then we discuss Palantir and "grey areas" that many technologists avoid working on or thinking about, government bureaucracy and DOGE, and how technologists are pursuing and accumulating power. We also chat about Nabeel's idea maze ahead of the new company, art and what it is for, and a range of other topics that showcase how curious, polymathic, and considerate Nabeel is.As the world changes at a breakneck pace thanks to technology and AI, Nabeel embodies a deeply humanistic approach that also accepts change as the default. This conversation inspired me to embrace surprise and strangeness, especially in creativity; to push through the friction and temptation to accept the answers at face value and instead yearn to more deeply understand; and to pursue a life of growth, practice, and care.Full transcript with all linked references available here.Timestamps:(3:21): “The Opposite of Slop Is Care.”(4:15): Defining Slop (14:17): Do We Decide What We Care About? (20:16): Original Seeing and Intimacy as a Path to Care (24:05): Creativity, Craft, and Care in the Digital World and Physical World (28:24): The Human Moat and Practice (32:48): Can AIs Care? (35:52): Understanding Things Deeply and “The Will to Think” (39:52): School: Getting the Answer vs. Deeply Understanding (41:44): High-Dimensional Learning from Simulations (Games) and Reality (the Real World) (48:38): Moving Down from Abstraction: Be Specific (50:49): Karl Popper, Fallibilism, Tyler Cowen, and Fighting Intellectual Inertia (53:00): Slowing Down (56:00): Nabeel's Funnel for Information & Retention (59:18): Spaced Repetition (Flashcards) (1:01:09): Palantir, Duty, and Engaging in Political and Moral Gray Areas (1:07:06): Palantir's Culture of Independent Thinking: People Who Speak Their Mind but Aren't Douchebags (1:09:38): Government Bureaucracy, DOGE, Power (1:14:51): Why Can't Governments Be Better at Error Correction and Healthy Renewal? (1:17:02): Technologists and Power (1:23:47): Nabeel's Next Company and the Idea Maze: “Context Is That Which Is Scarce” (1:27:11): Scientist Brain vs. Founder Brain and Context vs. Details (1:30:17): Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and What Art Is For (1:34:02): Art for Defamiliarization (1:36:00): What Makes Film Special (1:37:15): Depth in Text and Other Mediums (1:40:32): Patterns Across Nabeel's Taste: The Unfamiliar (1:43:11): Lightning Round: Travel (1:44:37): Stories Nabeel Tells Himself (1:45:31): Agency and Being Told What to Do by AI (1:47:49): Negotiation and Creating Optionality (1:50:28): Palantir's Vocabulary (1:53:07): Lessons from Tyler Cowen (1:54:41): Fighting Inertia Key Links (all references available here)"We don't get a lot of things to really care about." (Pig, 2021)The opposite of slop is care. (Tweet Thread)PrinciplesHow To Understand Things Video Games are the Future of Education Notes On Karl PopperReflections on Palantir Dialectic with Jackson Dahl is available on all podcast platforms.Join the telegram channel for DialecticFollow Dialectic on TwitterFollow Dialectic on InstagramSubscribe to Dialectic on YouTube
Ayla El-Moussa - The Power of Dreams and the Subconscious
In the 12th episode of Season five, we are joined by the wonderful artist and our good friend Ayla El-Moussa. Ayla is known for her surreal art that combines photography and painting while focusing on the human form, nature, balance and subconscious.We dive into Ayla’s artistic influences, the power of dreams and the subconscious, her love of all things books and movies, the little book of sex questions, and so much more.We're excited to announce that the rest of Season Five is now powered by Towns! Built on Base and running on River, Towns is a decentralized and permissionless group chat app that allows anyone to create & own digital town squares on their own rules. Available on web and iOS with full end-to-end encryption, users can join or create feature-rich Towns with native on-chain gating, paid memberships and more with tons of exciting features & rewards coming soon. We'll also be doing a little collabing with our friends at SHILLR in a joint Town for our communities so make sure to tap in to get access to some Towns exclusive giveaways, rewards and more. Head to https://www.towns.com/ for more.02:05 Intro 04:19 Fear of flying 10:35 How has moving across the country changed your art? 20:28 Dreams, subconscious, and lucid dreaming 27:48 Recurring dreams and deja vu 36:17 Love of Books and Movies 51:16 How has Ayla’s family influenced her art? 01:07:13 The Role of Gender in Art 01:14:33 Artistic evolution, The NFT boom of 2021, and building long-term value alongside patrons 01:31:28 The Little Book of Sex Questions 01:42:04 Exploring the Future of Sex Robots 01:49:07 Final Thoughts and Upcoming Projects More Ayla:X: https://x.com/aylaelmoussaMore TownsLink to join our town with Shillr and WDAL - https://app.towns.com/t/0x7ce9312cf40ce89426e8262de3f6701b0e27d822/channels/207ce9312cf40ce89426e8262de3f6701b0e27d8220000000000000000000000/ X: https://x.com/townsxyz More RedbeardX: https://x.com/redbeardnftMore DeezeX: https://x.com/DeeZe More WDALX: https://x.com/wedoalittlepodDiscord: https://discord.gg/6JSDYgBBuBMore Shillr:X: https://x.com/shillrxyzPodcasts: https://shillr.buzzsprout.com/ More h0m3w0rk (creators of our theme song) X: / homeworknft Production by WeeshX: / __weesh__ As always, this podcast is for entertainment purposes only, and should not be relied upon for investment decisions. Andy, Deeze, and guests may be invested in companies or tokens talked about on this podcast.
Player Zero: The Future of Digital Identity & Cross-Metaverse Avatars!
In this episode, we dive into Player Zero, the game-changing project revolutionizing digital identity! 🌐✨ Imagine a single avatar that’s uniquely yours—everywhere. From virtual worlds to gaming metaverses, Player Zero empowers users with a customizable, collectible-driven identity that evolves across platforms. 🎭💎🎮 Key Highlights:✅ Own and customize your avatar across multiple metaverses✅ Achievements & collectibles you truly own 🚀✅ The future of decentralized identity in gaming & Web3Don't miss this deep dive into how Player Zero is shaping the future of digital ownership & the metaverse! 🌍💡To Learn More about Player Zero:Visit them on X: https://x.com/weareplayerzeroTo Learn More about Late Night On Base:X: https://x.com/latenightonbase📩 Want to be featured on the podcast? DM me on X!🔔 Subscribe & hit the bell to stay updated on the latest Web3 innovations! 🚀
