Thanks to the collectors of the work featured in this piece: Jeff Lau, Charles Read, shatt.eth, ethventurer.eth, localdegen.eth

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You likely fall into one of these categories:

• What’s an NFT?
• NFTs are bullshit.
• NFTs are a breakthrough technology.

If you clicked the link to this article, you know what the Bored Ape Yacht Club is.

10,000 provably unique avatars.

0.08 ETH to mint on April 30th, 2021.

I bought Ape 5207 on May 2, 2021 for 2.5 ETH.

"The need in Afghanistan is overwhelming and growing fast as conflict escalates and drives more than 393,000 newly displaced people from their homes. They need food, water, shelter, and protection. Please give now to rush emergency aid to displaced Afghan families and your gift will matched to go twice as far to help."

Each edition of this NFT covers one family’s emergency needs for a month. (scroll down to buy 10 at a time)

Funds are routed directly to [care.org]

Funds Sent:

Words: Luke Burgis, author of Wanting, out today.

Memes are stuff. Mimetic desire is movement.

On January 25, 2021, $GME looked like 4 meaningless characters on a screen.

2020 was a hell of a year.

Lots of charts that looked like this:

Screen time, through the roof:

"A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play." — James P. Carse (Finite and Infinite Games)

Infinite games.
Long-term games.
Positive-sum games.

Not too long ago, if you'd have asked me to explain what any of the above meant, I'd have no idea what you were talking about.

Now, I play them every day.