March 12, 2025

International Women's Day 2025

Last Friday, Shane Mac and his team at XMTP shared an initiative on Farcaster for International Women's Day: nominate a woman who inspires you, share her story, and she could receive $2,500 to help her continue making a difference. The responses were full of stories of resilience, innovation, caregiving, and generosity - from mothers providing unwavering support, women overcoming personal and financial hardships, to builders inspiring the community with their projects. To my surprise, the wom...

February 12, 2025

How I Built GMFC101: A Farcaster AI Agent Trained on Video Content (Without Eliza)

IntroductionA few months ago, I decided to take a stab at building a Farcaster AI agent, whose purpose would be to help users navigate Farcaster by answering their questions and pointing them to relevant content. The idea was to train it on hundreds of hours of video content from GM Farcaster, the live show NounishProf and I host to cover everything happening in the Farcaster ecosystem. People have called our video archive a time capsule of Farcaster history. The problem is video isn’t inhere...

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October 19, 2024

Leading with Heart

In October of 2022, I gave a talk at the Enterprise DevOps Summit (now the Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit) titled Leading with Heart, about a simple thesis: As technology professionals, we've been trained to use our brains, but if we want to be effective leaders, it's the heart muscle we need to develop.I based my talk on my experience leading a technical team out of a state of dysfunction and deadlock — not by using hard technical skills, but by leaning into my heart and using softe...

October 10, 2024

Cheese Making in Nomadic Mongolia

During my visit to Mongolia in the summer of 2019, I had the unique opportunity to watch nomads make cheese using methods passed down through generations. Below, you’ll find a series of photos that capture the entire process—from milking the yaks and preparing the cheese over a stove, to pouring it into cheesecloth, hanging it outside to dry in the sun, and finally enjoying a bowl of soft cheese, scooped up with our fingers. It’s a testament to the traditions of Mongolia’s nomadic people, who...

June 28, 2024

Why I love Farcaster

Farcaster is new-ish social network built on the Ethereum blockchain. I joined in November 2022 and instantly became a daily active user.  Most ...

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June 28, 2024

Farcaster Writing Hackathon

On June 21, 2024, we held a Farcaster Writing Hackathon, what I believe to be the first event of its kind. In this post, I share the concept for the ...

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May 18, 2024

Put Your Podcast Onchain in 5 Easy Steps

IntroductionI recently wrote a post about onchain podcasts - what they are, their benefits, and a simple tech stack for an MVP. I encouraged people ...

April 24, 2024

Creating a Minimum Viable Onchain Podcast

Introduction Last year I documented the tech stack I used for creating a minimum viable podcast, with suggestions on how to create and edit an audio r...

April 5, 2024

Is Farcaster still a scenius?

At the first FarCon in Boston, I gave a lightning talk about how Farcaster exhibited all the characteristics of a scenius. The concept seemed to str...

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March 25, 2024

Desperately Seeking Autonomy: My Journey From Leadership to DevOps to Blockchain

I've only been "in" crypto for a few years, but the seeds were planted much, much earlier, starting with some leadership training I recei...