ted (on farcaster)
@tednotlasso
building (coming soon) | reading on arXiv, eating at Gjusta, surfing in Venice | "lucky me, lucky mud" 🤠
guys i swear i’m not on any drugs i truly just love rawdogging life and all of its highs and lows
prediction for the era of AI abundance: premium brands will take a barbell approach to friction. remove friction at the commodity layer (shipping, returns) but add smart, narrative-driven friction at points in the experience where it could heighten taste, craft, or community.
This experience was arguably much better than staring at page after page of algorithmically-served, mediocre, and easily forgettable content.
someone just called Whole Foods “ghetto Erewhon” i fear i may need a break from LA
Marketers of crypto, are you looking for a jr. generalist with range? Someone who can vibecode a @farcaster_xyz mini app in the AM, get knee deep in metrics over lunch, & shoot a face-to-camera video in the PM? I have your gal. 10/10 work ethic, ambitious & FUN (elite combo)
Something happened on @farcaster_xyz yesterday and a new standard for the Crypto User Experience™️ has just been unlocked
a @McDonalds Kids Meal x Labubu collab would go absolutely feral
unintended consequences: glp1s are improving male and female fertility better than hormone therapy red light therapy masks are trending and women are finding out that it screws up botox if used same day octobuddies are increasing # of macbook screen repairs across young women
passing the phone to... some of the incredible team behind the @baseapp at yesterday's new day one launch :) congrats to @base and all of the building blocks built into the new app, including farcaster. inspired!!! @reva_jariwala @crystaltaixyz @0xVictorP @cankeremgurel
.@brian_armstrong giving a shout out to infrastructure upgrades which make consumer crypto products possible, calling out the @farcaster_xyz , @zora , @xmtp_ teams. "We can start to assemble these lego pieces into an onchain economy that reaches 1 billion people”
last night my waymo pulled up like this. diabolical. why??? who hurt you???
takeaways from an interview with cofounder/CEO of SKIMS that make me excited for the future of @TYBXYZ: 1. brands die when internal aesthetics beats external feedback loops 2. future of creator economy won't be high follower #, but tight-knit networks that monetize intimacy
i feel like the male version of a mood ring is a man's facial hair
first large-scale study measuring how much real monetary value people place on their social media networks was just published by MIT / Carnegie Mellon researchers. asked 20k U.S. adults* how much they'd have to be paid to give up Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or X** or to use…
