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  • Field Notes from LA Tech Week 2026

    From my personal perspective and made with Clyo Across four LA Tech Week rooms, the same questions kept appearing in different language: who holds the advantage when AI gets cheap, which moats last and whether humans stay in the loop. Investors stressed relationships and defensibility. Researchers expect closed-loop AI research and want open data made…

  • Prelaunch Game Collectable

    Just having fun brainstorming an idea to engage a community around a publisher’s new R&D game. Collectable Card Size CR80 credit card size Material Linen finish card stock Front design Characters/weapons/etc from R&D game Back design IRL game puzzle Card Holders Every gamer account Editions First edition Subsequent editions Vibe Like playing PACMAN at Pizza…

  • Chones Hackathon 2026

    A special kind of collaboration emerges when small communities work together. The Chones community captured this during a recent hackathon in July 2026, which comprised several members working across two key topic spaces. Teams worked on a private, censorship-resistant, and governable community-organizing platform called Pacto, built by community member daopunk. The hackathon also served as…

  • An Attention Thesis for Today

    How many of us still use Facebook groups, even though we hate Meta? Our friends are there, IRL and URL. Culture makes tech sticky, and tech makes culture accessible. Some of us are still angry about the Zora update of 2024, but that was just the beginning. If one of a kind art can be…

  • Solving the Turnip Puzzle: Part 5

    Culture Capital, Curation and Trust Part 5 of an ongoing series. Part 1 focused on the AI race. Part 2 focused on capital allocation in VC systems. Part 3 reconnected the loops between workers, creators and capital across generations. Part 4 brings it back to Chones, with the hidden track, the well and the bucket.…

  • On Legibility, Part 2

    I like experimenting on myself and my friends, when they consent. (Thank you fellow lab rats in lab coats!) Engagement games, operator error as signal, collective decision making, token velocity, agent workflows, playing cards~ When someone believes in a tool, whether AI, crypto, cloud, or containers, it feels like trying to eat a piece of…

  • On Legibility, Part 1

    I used to like my MDMA in the daytime, walking around the city. Pre-parenting days, my roommate, her girlfriend and I were rolling and walking through the Mission, on our way to Dolores Park. We went into a corner bodega for blunt supplies. Stepping outside, I was literally stopped in my tracks; the sky was…

  • Mad Libs, Part 2

    On March 19, I sent out 184 DM’s, mostly on Telegram, but also on text message and Discord. I only messaged people I already had a direct message thread with. It included this image with a link to the poll below. From those 184 DMs, the poll received 86 votes and the web page received…

  • Solving the Turnip Puzzle: Part 4

    The Hidden Track, the Well and the Bucket Part 4 of an ongoing series. Part 1 focused on the AI race. Part 2 focused on capital allocation in VC systems. Part 3 reconnected the loops between workers, creators and capital across generations. Part 4 brings it back to Chones. There’s an old citrus packaging warehouse…