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If you want more long balaji talks, these are 5 years old, but you might like them.

"If you think things are moving fast today...the world will never feel this slow again" I took a few months off from my substack, but an early cross country flight with wifi and a full cup of coffee rectified that I wrote about: - the pace of change and how we should avoid the trap of looking back - agentic payments, x402 and MPP, learning by doing - nervous system regulation - the paradox of freedom Would love to hear your thoughts if any of these things resonate with you

Yesterday in our livestream @balajis.eth shared he does not care about DAU (daily active users) Exact quote: “do i care about daus? i do not care about daus.” He went on to reference @sriramk.eth ‘s post about building something no one else is measuring (linked here: sriramk.com/building-unmeasurable-things) And then went on to explain his motivation to build farcaster into a place for learning and earning, and why education and academia are important (but with plenty of need for improvement from its current state). His words were a breath of fresh air to me. You should absolutely listen to the whole episode but if you want to skip right to this part here’s the link: youtube.com/watch?v=yaobajMRpck&t=8240s (Ps - for those following along in my coding adventures, I recently improved the transcript generation for our episodes and I’m loving how much easier it is now to find relevant snippets and clips from our show. If you want to see the full episode transcript, with speaker identification, check out this link: gmfarcaster.com/episodes/ep398/transcript and you can search for DAU to find the part where we talk about it, and clicking on any time stamp will bring you to that part in the episode)

If you want to learn more about @warpee.eth from a technical perspective — initial blog post explaining how I built the MVP: farcaster.xyz/warpee.eth/0xdcb1d373 (note: obsolete already, but might still be interesting?) — A talk about its more modern, skills based architecture, linked here farcaster.xyz/warpee.eth/0xdcb1d373o — Warpee lives as an ai bot on Farcaster and X but he is also available as a headless API where you can ask him questions for half a penny with x402 or tempo, more info:

Tipping culture coming to X

I still often think about the Westrum model for defining culture within an organization His research (from 40 years ago) characterized organizations as having one of three predominate cultures: 1) Pathological - power oriented, political, people hide information out of fear 2) Bureaucratic - rules oriented, "process for the sake of process", tends to create a lot of silos and illusion of progress 3) Generative - performance oriented, mission focused, people way more focused on value creation over internal politics and process If you've ever experienced true generative culture (which is quite common in tech companies), it's hard to work in any other type of environment

My theory on why warpee misgenders @nounishprof so often even when it’s prompt includes our pronouns is gender bias is baked into the model and when it sees the term prof, it assumes man?