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Ah, it's a pleasure to meet you here amongst all this verbiage.
You will find below a selection of the writing I've spent these years assembling.
Essays with thousands of views, copywriting with thousands of impressions, newsletters with thousands of subscribers, and all the flotsam.
Don't hesitate to reach out. I expect you'll have questions.
*Cover image featuring "Poetry" (1919) by Marianne Moore.*
Essays
Summer of 2022…was hot, and it was muggy, and it was sad. The at-large euphoria of crypto culture in 2021 had all but dried up, and the bear market — in whose clutches the entire ecosystem would remain for years to come — was beginning to tighten its sinister grip.
Pindar Van Arman: Monograph provides a comprehensive overview of Van Arman's fascinating and varied oeuvre. Organized chronologically, it features an elaborate set of critical commentaries by Annabel Hallsworth, Danielle Ezzo, and Maxwell Cohen...
On a brisk, clear evening, two figures stand out on the lawn of a gently-lit house in suburban Chicago. It's a boy with his father, their hands stuffed in their pockets, their necks craned towards...
This is the first of a series of four essays written on crypto art collectorship through the Summer and Fall of 2023. These essays were based on 18 interviews conducted in April and May 2023. While...
Sorry, but if we're going to do this, you're going to have to forget everything you think you know about the Metaverse. Okay? Good...
We're certainly an arrogant art movement, aren't we? We uniformly preach crypto art's importance. As a new paradigm for artists. As an unprecedented aesthetic movement. As the next big thing...
So why can't crypto art escape the influence of its medium, asks Max Cohen
Copywriting
FIFPRO, the only worldwide representative organization for professional footballers approached Wildly to create a branded content campaign to support their comprehensive report on discrimination in the global soccer industry... https://www.madewildly.com/the-goods/fifpro
We've talked a lot about how AVAX's ACP-77 upgrade changes the L1 landscape permanently.But did you know that ACP-77 is just one portion of AVAX's next major overhaul?This is AVAX-9000, and it's the biggest game-changer in web3.🧵↓
When @dntse repeatedly calls @babylon_chain's mechanism "trustless," it misleads users and is bad for Bitcoin...
Let's consider a logic problem: If AVAX's ACP-77 upgrade allows L1s to determine their own validators, and if validators can validate transactions by staking tokens on other blockchains, and if Landslide connects AVAX L1s to the entire Cosmos ecosystem of blockchains using IBC...
The names Satoshi Nakamoto and Vitalik Buterin are synonymous with Bitcoin and Ethereum, the respective blockchains they founded. Avalanche’s founder is no less integral to Web3’s rise, despite being less well-known.
Blogs and Newsletters
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We got NEWS. We got THOUGHTs. We got ART! We got you covered.
Somewhat counterintuitively, I think that a truly catastrophic economic environment might be just what crypto art needs to find itself again. And I’m not sure it can do so otherwise...
Celebrating Some of my Favorite Artistry...
Exploring a kojii.ai Model in Detail...
Whether or not we are working for a company in the process of downsizing, and even if our roles are currently secure, many of us will eventually work somewhere amidst major corporate restructuring.
Like many others, Esherick’s essay sparked many truly transmutative thoughts. But while Esherick’s essay is a fundamentally-sound critical analysis, it neglects important context and flippantly implicates the undeserved...
Part of a blog series devoted to job search advice, ghostwritten for company principle, Nancy Shield, on behalf of "Ideal Interview Co."
At a macro level, the job market almost always reflects the larger economy's sentiments, so in a moment like ours, we should expect hiring practices to change proportionally.
Flotsam
Bananas! is a rich, ripe, and deeply imaginative exploration of the millennial mind...
An examination of distribution studio A24's industry-pioneering practices...