We have a new discussion of consciousness you can join. — Many thanks go out to the wonderful team at The Quest of Evolution for first supporting a project and then going above and beyond to support an author (me!) on a live + recorded Twitter Spaces earlier today. The Spaces can be found here: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1eaKbrzvXMBKX?s=20 Our goal with the first-ever…

And The Reason People In Power Don’t Like NFT Royalties — The most recent release by Green Day has hit Spotify! You can now listen to three previously unreleased tracks that didn’t make the cut for the upcoming 30th anniversary edition of Dookie. This release follows a drop that happened last month of a 4-track demo version of the album. Let’s…

David Eagleman & Anthony Brandt show us the creativity in the world, and explain it. — The Runaway Species is a great entry point into the ecosystem from which Worldview Ethics is arising. David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt present a wide and deep array of examples, each of which brings the reader a bit closer to the goal of understanding the sorts of things human minds…

Worldview Ethics moves forward along with many other Web3 projects! — Exciting times, everyone! We have a slew of updates today. I want to start with a bit of bragging about the PageDAO community. Whatever the bear market threw at us, however cranky or upset we got, we stuck together and kept trying. …

This series of books should be more than enough to get everyone ready for Worldview Ethics. — Worldview Ethics Book Review Series Launches Here is a quick list of ten books (and the start of a list of book reviews about each of them in turn!). Outlive, by Peter Attia & Bill Gifford

A philosophy book, a decentralized application, a focused social media experiment. — Dialectics is the base layer upon which statements about the world play out. It could be said that Dialectics is a set of metaphysical assumptions that undergird the statements we are able to make. It is somewhat fitting, then, that with Formal Dialectics, we have a book that has already…

Second Generation PageDAO NFTBook Minter Reaches Testnet! — Hey everyone, sorry for the hiatus — I have a lot going on and sometimes don’t get around to making the notes as often as I want to. The good news? A new NFTBook Minter from PageDAO has launched in testnet! We spent the whole show diving in. …

A testnet to bring the world of Web3 to authors. — The Second Generation PageDAO NFT Minter is now in testnet phase. Released 2/20/2023, this unique decentralized application enables the user to bring a manuscript and create a unique NFT asset with a variety of never-before-seen features. This piece of technology was developed primarily by Robert Pollock and incorporates minting pages…

“Because that’s how life is,” my friend said to me. — “Chekhov’s Gun works as a literary device because that’s how life is — you meet all these people, see all these things, and then they come back in various formats you never could’ve seen coming.” — A friend of mine back in grad school, paraphrased We were talking about story…