What if your attention had a price? Your inbox is full. Your DMs are overflowing. Agents are spamming your replies. Everyone wants a piece of your attention - and none of them are paying for it. The problem with open DMs If you’re a creator, influencer, or business owner, you’ve been here before: dozens of cold messages, spam, and “quick questions” that aren’t quick. Everyone wants a coffee chat. The signal gets buried under noise. ...
tl;dr Humans crave novelty. Agents crave data. Creators crave income. Stablecoins move value. Incentives create alignment. One of a16z’s recent posts, 8 big ideas for 2026, touched on a topic that stuck with me: the invisible tax on the open web. Table of Contents Table of Contents Two problems collide An old but new primitive Why would humans tip humans? Why would agents tip humans? This is not about paywalls Two problems collide The core idea is simple and uncomfortable. ...
tl;dr Explaining what Pocket Network is through a series of 7 internet networking analogies. Subscribe if you want to be notified of when…
Note: This is a repost of a blog published in early 2018.