I personally liked some of the longer ones that weren't always the most popular like: https://cdixon.org/2016/02/21/what-s-next-in-computing https://cdixon.org/2015/10/31/lessons-from-the-pc-video-game-industry https://cdixon.org/2017/02/20/aristotle-computer

Hm, good question. I was mostly off social media for the last year as I wrote the book, so not as much public discussion as I'd like, but planning to be active again now, and a lot of FC. The community here is great- very positive and focused on building/utility.

Great question. Lots :) Hard to answer fully here, but in the new David Perrell podcast "How I Write" I go through that in detail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzU51vGn59c

working on it... hoping to do it with frames :)

Good question. An analogy I'd use is there are roads (networks) and cars (content). At first glance, generative AI lets you make better cars. Blockchains make you make better roads. But probably there will be spillover and the reality will be more nuanced.

Every chapter was it's own painful but rewarding process :) I go through it a lot in a new podcast with David Perrell (not sure it's out yet but should be soon). I'd say overall the main challenges were 1) breaking everything down in the simplest & clearest way, 2) keeping the narrative going so it wasn't too abstract.

Well I think in a way the book gets better as it goes on. The "payoff" is the last part ("Some Promising Apps"). I thought about putting that part earlier but I felt like I really needed to "earn" the claims I made by doing all the work in the first 4 sections.

You mean someone who already well informed on the topic? I hope so :) I think sections that would be the most interesting: 1) part 1 (internet history), 2) part 3: detailed walkthrough of benefits of blockchains (even if you know them, I hope I provide new frameworks and ways to explain them), 3) part 5: future apps

With blockchains? I write about it in the book (chapters "Protocol Networks" and "Corporate Networks") but an important moment for me was 2011/12 when the social networks deprecated their APIs and it became clear that web2 composability/openness was going away.

A lot of people :) But in terms of tech, I've spent a lot of time reading about the history of invention. I am actually working on an essay (unfinished) about Akio Morito, Edwin Land & Steve Jobs (engineer / designer/ founders). I really love the period of 1850-1900 or so: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, Bell, etc.

I go through that in the last part of the book "Some Promising Applications" where I deep dive into 7 categories. Some categories I just think are really fascinating like collaborative storytelling and countering deepfakes, and others are just obviously big and important like social media and finance.

My general advice for people early in their career is: Dive into new technologies whether it's crypto/blockchains, AI, VR or something else. Explore / experiment a lot https://cdixon.org/2009/09/19/climbing-the-wrong-hill Seek out interesting people and subcultures. Try to stay optimistic :)

Trying to be :) Yes, would like to. But I really want to stick to thoughtful discussions and focus on tech and building. Twitter used to be like this. Hopefully that will happen more and more on FC and other new platforms.

AI has just gotten so much better since then, due partly to all the algorithmic improvements (transformers etc) but a big part due to Moore's law and much more powerful GPUs. A good reminder of how important timing and infrastructure is to application layer startups.

Blockchains are tools, and like any tool can be used positively or negatively. The positive use of the tool (as described in the book) is to build new internet services that remove corporate intermediaries and help return the internet to its original ideals as an open and decentralized network.

I keep quitting things and becoming increasingly boring :) Probably trying to not spend too much time on the internet is my biggest lifestyle challenge.

If I have time, I really like to spend 1 hour exercising, 1 hour reading, and 1 hour writing (or creating) something. And then I'd spend the rest of the day with family and friends.

I feel like composability / developer side of crypto has been really under-explored. That's one reason frames and the reactions to frames is exciting. I was telling a friend last night if I had one wish for crypto near term it would be that we have "composability summer" and a new wave of developer experimentation.

Haha, literally when I started on Twitter in like 2007 (I think) I googled "create an avatar" and made it on some random website. I've tried changing it over time but people said I should keep it so I did :) I have one other variation with a cigar that I used the day I sold my last company.

I think users should be aware of ownership, that blockchain-based services respect ownership and let them take their identity and other things they own across apps, but the rest of the plumbing should probably be abstracted away to get as close as possible to feature parity with incumbent internet services.

The main thing is the infrastructure has vastly improved. Ethereum (2015) was really the first time you could build apps, and of course only recently with L2s and other innovations (last year or so) have apps with low gas fees and good performance really become possible. Farcaster is a case in point.

I loved phillosophy. I got into it via my interest in computers and programming. Consciousness Explained and Godel, Escher, Bach were a big influences / gateway drugs into philosophy. I think it's a great major - teaches you how to write and argue/reason carefully.