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  • 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…

  • North Star

    What I want for Chones is to be the place you bring your treasure to, because you trust it will be honored, because you have been supported by us. Thank you @Jordanisgreen for our conversation that helped me realize this. Seems like every platform has promised some bullshit to builders and creators. Wattpad has regular…

  • Mad Libs, Part 1

    Remember that part in Ready Player 1 when Wade goes backwards at the start of a race and a path opens up, under the race track? I feel like I’m trying to build that hidden track underneath, away from faster and faster speeds, with all sorts of obstacles. The feed is mostly noise. We’re going…