Higher Together with CATRA

A conversation on music, design and building a Higher community in Jakarta.

Higher Together with MARTIN

a conversation on the $higher token launch and creating Aether, the infinite idea machine.

Higher Together with SONYA

a conversation about storytelling, balance and choosing to aim higher

Higher Together with SIX

A conversation on building Higher, a permissionless brand.

Higher Together with COLFAX

a conversation about creativity and Higher hat tech

Writing, Podcasts and Minting Base Colors — JAKE

JAKE is a pseudo anonymous internet creator. Going with the classic blue, colour code #0000FF as his pfp. Host at Pod Of Jake where he’s interviewed almost 200 guests over 4 years. Most recently Jacob from Zora and others such as Vitalik Buterin, pplpleasr and Mark Cuban. Writer at Blog of Jake, where he’s published about creativity and writing, documenting his experiences as a podcaster, observing what’s happening on the internet, reviewing crypto news, thinking about how to learn and build. JAKE is also the founder of Base Colors, a new onchain collection where you can mint unique colour codes on Base and give them a name, an interesting primitive which many people are starting to play around and experiment with. We talk about the benefits of writing online. Go behind the scenes experiences of hosting a podcast. Thoughts on the crypto scene, Bitcoin and pseudo anon identities on the internet, decentralized social like Farcaster, and thinking too much about Colors. ___ UFO Sponsor Resources ↑ Higher — https://www.aimhigher.net/ 🌐 International Meme Fund — https://imf.bz/ --- @jake @ufoclub.eth @hollins For more episodes, go to ufo.fm

Electronic Music Scenes — Sound Of Fractures

Jamie Reddington is an electronic music producer, consultant and lecturer from London who recently released his debut album Scenes. His music is shaped by hiphop, UK dance music and soul. Leaning into telling stories, with textures and samples captured from his phone, featuring the sound of his daughter’s heartbeat. The record was released as a co-creation. ‘Over 350 memories were submitted and turned into Scenes, capturing a moment in time. People stopped, took time out of their lives and engaged in a process that connected music and emotions.' We talk about the past, present and future of music on the internet. What's most interesting for artists right now? ___ UFO Sponsor Resources ↑ Higher — https://www.aimhigher.net/ 🌐 International Meme Fund — https://imf.bz/ --- @soundoffractures @ufoclub.eth @hollins For more episodes, go to ufo.fm

Exploring the Memecoin Supercycle with IMF — Gami, Clouted

Gami and Clouted are core contributors from International Meme Fund (IMF) and $MONEY. Their team believes it is now crucial to have native liquidity and financial infrastructure for the meme sector. They're both from Sydney and have shared interests in defi financial engineering, game theory and the memecoin phenomonen. We talk about financial nihilism. Memes as emergent properties of the internet. Why do some meme assets succeed when the vast majority fail? How do you choose the tokens that go up? (no financial advice). The internet is stranger than you think.

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?

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)

Designing Social Instruments with Scene Infrastructure Company — Jose, Ethan, Neesh

Scene Infrastructure Company is a software business building better instruments for socialization. We recorded with the founding team, Jose Mejia, Ethan Daya and Neesh, and what we got down on tape is super valuable context, experiences and thoughts around founding a new company. For design, product, community building and technology choices. Coming from earlier founding experiences at organizations like FWB and Zora. On designing a brand, and finding inspirations from retro spots like computer magazines, playstation games and lore, to create something fresh. We talk about their vision for the future and what they’d like to build, as they’re figuring it out in real time. They will be activating a social product experience for FWB Fest in California in August. Sponsors: Your crypto wallet for everything onchain — zerion.io Create, distribute and monetize on your own terms — paragraph.xyz Higher is a lifestyle — aimhigher.net Home of onchain ticketing — onopen.xyz Where group chats make more money — lore.xyz

Bringing the World Onchain with Base — Jesse Pollak

Jesse Pollak is contributor #1 at Base. A new Ethereum L2, incubated by Coinbase and built on the open-source OP Stack. We talk about Jesse’s origin stories in tech and joining Coinbase early. How an idea to do something radical like decentralise Coinbase and bring the whole org onchain set things in motion, and led to Base being developed like a breakaway startup from within. You'll hear stories about how it’s working behind the scenes for players in this onchain movement including Base, Zora and Optimism. We look back on Onchain Summer from August and highlight projects including Basepaint, Happy Friday coffee by thepark, create.fun, Paragraph and Lore.