> Normally, getting tips doesn't strike me- I follow my own intuition. So when prompted with a new app, I was skeptical.

<h1> It's cool, tbh </h1>
Feels like a neural network, synapses and all that. It was marketed as a second brain, after all. If I'm already scatter-brained as it is, would personal knowledge management (PKM) help? Who knows. Using the HTML I learned from Markdown is pretty neat, though. 

Maybe I suffer from apophenia. I have to admit sometimes I sound like a crock with all these spurious connections, but for some reason or another, I feel the connection. I 'see' them. They just fall into place, and I think it's important. Synchronicity is curious.

The church bells chimed noon as I took in the cloudy day's air. Lawrence Livingston taught me as much about the emotions of a speculator as Brian Shannon taught on the way to profit from their emotions. Livingston, too right. I was today years old when it sunk in, the tuition of learning lessons. To sit tight and be right was taxing, but priceless. Value is a means to fulfillment. To be right at the wrong times amounts to much less. I did not trust my eyes, I feared the unknown, I yearned for excess. Emotions ran the gamut on my plays. I lacked one thing, as Shannon put it.

I needed discipline.


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Perspective is curious, too. I thought I understood an idea long ago, only to re-examine after meeting someone and passing time. You think you know somebody, right?

Protocols use different mechanisms to secure their platforms- Cloudflare, IPFS, Proof-of-Work, so on and so forth. I cannot be asked to parse the information; I bring you the pictures. How do you quantify that? The labor involved in imagery, for example. How about...

<h1> Proof-of-Brain </h1>
When I started out five years ago, I thought blockchain would revolutionize the world, especially if you could 'gamify' social media. People already focused so much on likes that they spammed hashtags. What if earning recognition- creating value- had more tact? I was so predisposed with the concept of earning from sharing- I did not appreciate the subtlety of the concept.

This media was both social and smart. You have users generate value by using their heads- how-to's, covers, recipes- whatever the heart shares. This means of value creation would invite new users and the cycle continues... 

I'm beginning to ramble like I did before. That moment of clarity was so easily felt, but not as simply described. So I choose imagery. The same way humans work: miners dig for coal that's used as fuel for energy, or a mother works two jobs to support her children through school- to distribute tokens to community participants is real work. They're like payroll at the office!

A platform in which wisdom of the crowd assesses the value of content, that'd be pretty cool as far as social media goes. 


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<h1> "Think different." </h1>
Public works funded by the public? People actually made a park in New York off the strength of this 'smart' social media. So... let's start a media company. 

Imagery has the power to move people, so let's move the imagery to them. Together. It was a grand ambition, in the mind of a grand charlatan. But, some conversations and a new application later, and it feels like the vision took one step closer to reality. 


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