Hyperactive Episode 17 - Humankind with Samantha
We walk-and-talk with Sam, founder of Humankind, about building a bootstrapped business onchain, growing an audience and customer-base on Farcaster, and how the quest to find the perfect candle lead her to starting her own company.
E100: How Memecoins Will Create the Most Millionaires in World History (with Luca Netz & Meow)
In this episode, we dive deep into the future of crypto, community, and memecoin driven wealth creation with two of the sharpest minds in Web3 - Luca and Meow - in anticipation of the highly hyped Pudgy penguins' PENGU memecoin launch. Luca Netz, is the owner and CEO of Pudgy Penguins, the second largest NFT project by market capitalization (nearly $1 Billion). Luca has turned Pudgy Penguins into a powerhouse of culture and innovation, setting the gold standard for how brands thrive in the NFT space. Meow, Co-Founder of Jupiter Exchange, the go-to decentralized trading platform on Solana and the largest DAO in the world. This conversation covers: -Why memecoins are creating millionaires and reshaping crypto narratives. -How NFT communities, like Pudgy Penguins, are building trust and engagement in the Web3 world. -The role of Solana and decentralized platforms like Jupiter in the future of crypto trading. -Strategies for balancing community growth with liquidity and business needs. -The power of storytelling and product-first marketing in driving adoption. -Lessons from past bull runs and the key to identifying the next big opportunities. And much more! __________________________________ PARTNERS 🚀 Jupiter is the most used Decentralized Exchange in Crypto and the largest DEX by volume on Solana. https://jup.ag/ 💧Sui is a first-of-its-kind Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform designed to make digital asset ownership fast, private, secure, and accessible. https://sui.io/ 🤖 SwissBorg is Europe’s top trusted crypto app offering user-centric investment platforms and DeFi asset management with reliability and innovation. Sign up with this link and earn up to €100 : https://join.swissborg.com/r/kevinH6E7 ♾ Coinsilium provides vital funding and expert advice to Web3 and AI-powered early-stage technology companies. https://www.coinsilium.com 🔘 Mantle Network enhances dApp development with Ethereum's security, low fees, and quick transactions through innovative layer-2 technology. Users can stake ETH for mETH, contributing to a transparent, community-driven ecosystem governed by $MNT token holders, fostering innovation and collaboration. https://www.mantle.xyz __________________________________ FOLLOW MEOW & JUPITER • Twitter: https://x.com/weremeow • Website: https://meow.bio/ • Twitter: https://x.com/JupiterExchange FOLLOW LUCA NETZ & PUDGY PENGUINS • Twitter: https://x.com/LucaNetz • Twitter: https://x.com/pudgypenguins • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pudgypenguins • Website: https://www.igloo.inc/ FOLLOW KEVIN & WHEN SHIFT HAPPENS👇 Twitter (X): https://x.com/KevinWSHPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kevinwshpod/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kevinfollonier_ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinfollonier/ Website: https://www.podpage.com/when-shift-happens/ __________________________________ DISCLAIMER The info contained herein is for informational purposes only. Nothing herein shall be construed to be financial, legal, or tax advice. The content of this video is solely the opinions of the speakers who are not a licensed financial advisor or registered investment advisor. Trading cryptocurrencies poses considerable risk of loss. The speakers do not guarantee any particular outcome. __________________________________ 0:00 Trailer 1:26 Please Subscribe 1:49 Our Valued Sponsors 2:25 Future of Money and Community 3:03 Jupiter’s Impact on Solana 6:13 Balancing Community and Business 9:28 The Product is the Marketing 14:08 Every Coin is a Meme Coin 15:19 Evolving Pudgy Penguins Strategy 19:31 Competition and Stress in Web3 24:24 IP: Crypto’s Trojan Horse 27:04 IP: L2s and the Consumer Gap 32:06 Base vs. Entire L2 Ecosystem 39:23 Should Every Community Have a Stablecoin? 41:27 Synergy Between Tokens and Community 47:20 Key Elements of Building a Community 52:00 Empathy in Community Building
Hyperactive Episode 16 - UFO with Nick Hollins
We walk-and-talk with Nick Hollins, founder of UFO, an onchain radio station and internet club. UFO has been experimenting with new media, distribution, and economic models for creators and communities. Nick shares his insights and perspectives from the onchain frontier, how they’re building a networked label, collective broadcast signal, and sustainable revenue on hypersub.xyz
4: Ava - Alive in Writing and in Love
Ava is one of my favorite writers. She writes full-time for her Substack, Bookbear Express and focuses on love, friendship, emotions, culture, and psychology. I'm not sure there's anyone I've more consistently recommended to friends and loved ones in recent years, and it seems like the world agrees: Ava now has over 30,000 subscribers. One of my favorite parts of this episode was reading excerpts from Ava's essays over the years back to her. We cover a ton of ground, including writing, consistency, commitment, friendship, authenticity, self-respect, taste, beauty, and much more. Timestamps: (1:09): What makes for good writing & what Ava writes about (5:49): Flow, Writing Practice, Consistency, Commitment, and Maintenance (14:08): Audience Consideration, Vulnerability, Sincerity, and Ava's Readership (26:30): Feedback Loops, Getting Better at Writing (28:51): Distribution and Growth; Writing Online vs. Making a Living with Writing (34:39): Social Psychology and Seeing People More Clearly (36:21): Do People Change? (42:44): Relationships & Helping Others Find Love (44:32): The Friendship Theory of Everything (1:00:35): Consistency, Self-Respect, and Self-Trust (1:03:45): Frames: Consistency in Our Relationships with Others (1:08:21): Authenticity and Honesty (1:15:12): Taste & Interiority (1:24:14): Two Core Interests: Relationships and Technology (1:26:12): San Francisco (1:29:48): Writing in the Second Person (1:31:52): Substack Recommendations and a Novel (1:33:07): Motivation & Energy (1:33:50): 10 Years Back, 10 Years Ahead (1:35:46): Uselessness (1:39:06): Beauty
3: Dan Romero - Why Information Should Flow on Protocols
Dan Romero (Farcaster, X, Website) is the CEO and co-founder of Farcaster, an open Twitter/X-like social network protocol built on blockchain rails. Before co-founding Farcaster in 2020, Dan previously worked at Coinbase as a Vice President, among many other roles. He joined the company as the 20th employee in 2014 and left in 2019. He's thought about and used Twitter-like networks for nearly two decades and is passionate about open information flow, market-enabled progress, and individual freedom. Timestamps: (01:39): We were promised flying cars and all we got was 140 characters (8:48): Bring Your Own Algorithm (BYOA), RSS, Elon, and The News Channel-ification of Social Networks (35:54): The Field of Dreams Fallacy: If You Build It, It Doesn't Mean They'll Come [Farcaster & Crypto-Focused Section Begins] (44:25): Status as a Service and Building the Home for Crypto Status (55:03): What is Farcaster? (59:34): Why not counter-position against Elon? (01:03:42): Programmable social and “Open APIs” (1:14:22): The Future of Farcaster (1:18:01): Farcaster's Value Capture (1:25:01): Sufficient Decentralization (1:28:44): Why Dan has created NFTs but not tokens [Farcaster & Crypto Focus Ends] (1:29:53): Product Market Fit, Focus, and The Idea Maze (1:37:01): Dan's career arc, contrarian paths, distributed systems, and creative destruction (01:44:09): Coinbase: pre-2017 learnings, hypergrowth, comparisons between building a culture and social network, and anti-lessons (1:49:20): Brian Armstrong and fostering repeatable innovation (1:52:24): What do you wish Balaji [Srinivasan] could work on? (1:53:20): Group Chats and the pendulum between private and public discourse (01:58:55): Power: Elon, Zuck, Trump? (2:00:24): Politics, Populism, Going Direct, and the Podcast Era (2:08:48): What have you changed your mind on this year? (2:10:22): Final Questions
2: Michael Dempsey - The Craft of Investing in the Future
Michael Dempsey (Website, X) is an investor, writer, technologist, and Managing Partner of Compound, an early-stage, thesis-driven, research-centric investment firm. Michael and Compound invest in seed and pre-seed science and technology companies in categories like healthcare and biotech, machine learning and AI, robotics, and crypto. He writes prolifically across a range of topics and I've always admired his ability and tenacity to think about the future and paint an optimistic, yet grounded view of where things are going. He's deeply reflective and wise, and I've known both his dedication to craft and the size of his heart for nearly a decade as a friend. Timestamps: (0:00): Technology, Science, and Cultural Change (08:37): Inflection Points and seeing the present vs. predicting the future (13:00): Being original and/or contrarian; what is "alpha" (16:58): "Post-science projects" (21:54): Technological timing and false inflection points (34:44): Heroes, Talent, Elon, and Zuck (45:30): Founders of the future will spike on creativity (49:46): Fighting decay (55:53): Future shock: "time is collapsing" (1:06:56): The future of humanity and our biology (1:12:16): Bryan Johnson and biological experimentation (1:14:48): AI Therapy (1:19:38): Vtubers, digital influencers, and pseudonymity online (1:26:19): Authenticity online: "Being known is being loved (1:31:57): Discipline, Curiosity, and Writing (1:36:29): Inertia and Friendship (1:44:44): A life of Craft
1: Jason Liu - The Freedom in Being Nobody
Jason Liu is a technologist, consultant, teacher, and friend. He spent the first part of his career as a machine learning engineer, mostly at Stitchfix, only to run into a wall: a hand injury that prevented him from being able to write any software for over a year. Fortunately, he's not so one-dimensional, and spent time reclaiming somatic experience in learning to free-dive, train Jiu-Jitsu, and return to the pottery practice he developed in art school, all while reckoning with big questions of ambition, purpose, and self-fulfillment. Since then, he's built a consulting practice helping modern AI companies better implement RAG (retrieval-augmented generation), avoid system design mistakes, hire elite talent, and build for an LLM-centric world. He maintains a large structured output library called Instructor with about 1m downloads per month, writes prolifically (which he does entirely via voice input with LLM editing, as we discuss), tweets semi-manically (he's grown to 30K followers on X with the simplest strategy I've ever heard anyone articulate—tweeting 30K times), and teaches courses on RAG and online consulting. Finally, my man can yap. He was a perfect first guest because he has no shortage of ideas but comes at nearly everything with a beginner's mindset. Timestamps (0:00): Intro to Dialectic (2:55): Brick laying vs. capital allocating (6:04): Acid Story: Trying so hard to be a somebody (9:20): Planning, judgement, elasticity, and abundance (11:28): Ambition and Trusting your future self (14:20): Fear; Confidence is the memory of success (18:46): Compounding psychology of risk taking (21:30): Do you get what you deserve? (22:32): Playing life on hard mode (27:22): Agency, Taking Accountability, and becoming essential (35:58): Consulting and Independent Contracting (39:52): Ambition and “Manhattan Project” Appeal (42:30): What are you motivated by? (44:36): Challenge runs and side quests (46:39): How to be prolific (53:46): Mastery, complex games, and creative fingerprints (57:47): Programming, animation, and style vs. cohesion (1:07:56): Jason only writes with his voice--with some LLM help (1:12:47): Flooding the airwaves with content (1:14:10): Twitter growth: simple math (1:19:49): Using the “sawdust” (1:23:30): ELI5 RAG (Retrieval augmented generation) (1:27:39): A final rant against couches
Hyperactive Episode 15 - Silicon Valley Canon with Phil Mohun
We walk-and-talk with Bright Moments co-founder and renaissance man, Phil Mohun. Phil shares his degenerate beginnings dealing with cocaine-fueled Bitcoin miners, group investment victories, and 'enterprise blockchain', to imagining what the future of crypto can be like, working with startups, and eventually landing in Venice Beach, CA for the co-founding of Bright Moments.
Going HIGHER | Martin Anquetil
In this episode we chat with Martin Antequil, the creator behind onchain brand HIGHER as well as the onchain agent Aether. We dive into Martin’s early work on NBA Top Shot at Dapper Labs, his thoughts on the evolution of the NFT market, his time building within the Nouns DAO community, “headless brands” and the emergence of HIGHER, building Aether, personality design & much more.
Hyperactive 14 - crystalspaceshp with Julie Rose
We walk-and-talk with artist and illustrator, Julie Rose. Julie shares her journey from growing up in a cult to discovering art-making, drawing, and design. We discuss her evolving inspirations—from electrical circuits to nautical knots—and how she’s building a tightknit community of passionate collectors on Hypersub.
Hyperactive Episode 13 - We Are The Art with Chris Cocreated
We walk-and-talk with artist and community builder Chris Cocreated. Chris shares his journey from community theater to creating collaborative onchain art. We discuss We Are the Art, his latest project that explores participatory creation and collective expression, as well as the opportunities and challenges of fostering an authentic, engaged community in web3.
Hyperactive Episode 12 - m/branson
We walk-and-talk with artist m/branson. She shares her journey from fighting fires in Antarctica to rediscovering her love of print making, art, and design. We discuss her path to publishing work onchain, building a community of collectors and supporters with hypersub, and embracing a creative practice that spans multiple mediums.
Hyperactive Episode 11 - Design Everyday with 0xdesigner
We walk-and-talk with anonymous provocateur, 0xdesigner. He shares his journey to becoming a designer, his approach to communicating new ideas, breadth versus depth, building a body of work, inspiring others to action, shaping culture, and the conviction required to continue creating.
Hyperactive Episode 10 - Kaloh's Newsletter and Podcast with Kaloh
We walk-and-talk with writer, podcast host, and renaissance man, Kaloh. Born in Venezuela, his journey began studying computer science, working as a developer by day and mining Bitcoin by night. Originally an escape, Kaloh's writing achieved bestseller status on Substack shortly after leaving the startup world behind. An art collector and community builder at heart, he continues to demystify the onchain frontier through his writing and podcast.
#183 - JACOB HORNE
Jacob is a cofounder of Zora, an onchain social network revealing new opportunities to create, connect, and earn from your life online. It's new app could be compared to a crypto version of Instagram. Before creating Zora, Jacob was a product designer and product manager at Coinbase. Follow Jacob on Warpcast @jacob and on X @js_horne. 0:00 - Jacob’s journey to creating Zora 11:40 - The evolution of monetizing information 15:15 - Business model experimentation at Zora 25:39 - The spectrum of fungibility 35:34 - Zora’s fee structure and incentive model 43:41 - Collecting and aggregating within Zora 48:18 - Quantity vs quality of posts on Zora 1:00:35 - Introducing Sparks as a new unit of account 1:10:14 - The story behind Zora’s Zorb logo For more episodes, go to podofjake.com. Previous guests include Mark Cuban, Vitalik Buterin, Brian Armstrong, Balaji Srinivasan, Keith Rabois, Ali Spagnola, Anthony Pompliano, Raoul Pal, Julia Galef, Jack Butcher, Tim Draper, and over 100 others alike. Learn from founders and CEOs of companies like OpenAI, Coinbase, Solana, Polygon, AngelList, Oura, and Replit, and investors from Founders Fund, a16z, Union Square Ventures, and many more. I appreciate your support and hope you enjoy. Thanks to Chase Devens for the show notes and Yiction for the music. Lastly, I love hearing from fans of the pod. Feel free to email me any time at jake@blogofjake.com. Thank you!
Higher Together with LGHT
A personal conversation with LGHT including how and why we're aiming higher.
Hyperactive Episode 9 - Hyefa with Aoife O'Dwyer
We walk-and-talk with artist, designer, and illustrator Aoife O'Dwyer. She shares her journey from biochemistry, to web design, to independent art-making. We explore and discuss ideas around storytelling, connection and co-creation through art and onchain experiments.
Hyperactive Episode 8 - Muse Studio with Max Jackson
We walk-and-talk with multidisciplinary artist and Hypersub OG, Max Jackson. He shares his journey from driving a pedicab, to discovering calligraphy, printmaking, and design, to minting his work onchain and building a community of passionate creators and collectors.
Hyperactive Episode 7 - Coop Records Club with Cooper Turley
We walk-and-talk with Coop Records Club founder, Cooper Turley. He shares his journey from studying music business in college, his humble beginnings as an eBay reseller and crypto trader, learning about DeFi and decentralized governance, cofounding FWB, and now bringing music onchain. He also talks about what it’s been like building through the bear market, incentivizing mints with meme coins, boosts and quests, sharing upside with his community, and what’s next.
Interpreting Technology with AIxDESIGN — Nadia Piet
Nadia Piet is Founder and Creative Lead of AIxDESIGN, a global community conducting critical AI research for the benefit of people, not profits. She's a designer, researcher, organiser and faculty member at ELISAVA's Design for Responsible AI. We talk about many things artificial intelligence. AlphaGO and Move 37. AI models trained on creative assets without permission. Commodification of digital life. What's causing the rapidly improving visual quality of generative AI such as DALL-E and Midjourney? Big picture, what are constructive ways to be thinking about AI?
Hyperactive Episode 6 - Spacemonkeys with Dalek
We walk-and-talk with artist and illustrator, James Marshall, also known as the legendary street artist, Dalek. James shares his journey from growing up in Maryland as a Navy brat, to discovering punk, skateboarding, and graffiti; moving to Japan as a teenager; and his path to a fine art career. We end on how he got into crypto, and how he’s using Hypersub to build community and earn recurring revenue onchain.
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)
