Dear Friends, Apologies in advance for making this one such a long one. It’s been over 6 weeks since I last wrote so I had a backlog of topics I had to write about - including an idea for a book I want to write, notes from our family trip to London, and the usual roundup of short updates. Oh, and new this week, all of my substack posts (SomeOfTheThings.substack.com) will be auto-published to my paragraph publication (https://paragraph.com/@adrienne), so you might be reading this on substack o...

Last week I attended FarCon NYC and I wanted to jot down a few reflections while everything’s still fresh. It was a packed few days of hacking, talking, walking, laughing, eating, drinking, dancing, recording, interviewing, more talking, and also felt like a reunion with friends I’d known forever. Here's the list of events I attended, my personal reflections and what I'm excited about, and where I'm going next. Events AttendedA day-by-day rundown of everything I did at FarCon from Wednesday t...

In this personal essay, I share reflections on an upcoming trip to Mongolia and my work with the Jeweled Horse Foundation. As AI becomes more deeply embedded in our lives, I raise a question I fear is being overlooked: what happens to the kinds of knowledge that can’t be digitized? And what do we lose if we let that knowledge disappear? I hope it sparks reflection on how we, as a global society, value different kinds of knowledge.Why I’m going back to MongoliaThis coming September, I’ll be jo...

Last Friday, Shane Mac and his team at XMTP shared an initiative on Farcaster for International Women's Day: nominate a woman who inspires you, share her story, and she could receive $2,500 to help her continue making a difference. The responses were full of stories of resilience, innovation, caregiving, and generosity - from mothers providing unwavering support, women overcoming personal and financial hardships, to builders inspiring the community with their projects. To my surprise, the wom...

IntroductionA few months ago, I decided to take a stab at building a Farcaster AI agent, whose purpose would be to help users navigate Farcaster by answering their questions and pointing them to relevant content. The idea was to train it on hundreds of hours of video content from GM Farcaster, the live show NounishProf and I host to cover everything happening in the Farcaster ecosystem. People have called our video archive a time capsule of Farcaster history. The problem is video isn’t inhere...

In October of 2022, I gave a talk at the Enterprise DevOps Summit (now the Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit) titled Leading with Heart, about a simple thesis: As technology professionals, we've been trained to use our brains, but if we want to be effective leaders, it's the heart muscle we need to develop.I based my talk on my experience leading a technical team out of a state of dysfunction and deadlock — not by using hard technical skills, but by leaning into my heart and using softe...

During my visit to Mongolia in the summer of 2019, I had the unique opportunity to watch nomads make cheese using methods passed down through generations. Below, you’ll find a series of photos that capture the entire process—from milking the yaks and preparing the cheese over a stove, to pouring it into cheesecloth, hanging it outside to dry in the sun, and finally enjoying a bowl of soft cheese, scooped up with our fingers. It’s a testament to the traditions of Mongolia’s nomadic people, who...

Farcaster is new-ish social network built on the Ethereum blockchain. I joined in November 2022 and instantly became a daily active user.  Most ...

On June 21, 2024, we held a Farcaster Writing Hackathon, what I believe to be the first event of its kind. In this post, I share the concept for the ...

IntroductionI recently wrote a post about onchain podcasts - what they are, their benefits, and a simple tech stack for an MVP. I encouraged people ...