Creativity
What's after the creator economy?
Metalabel and co-matter recently collaborated to produce a zine called After the Creator Economy that explores the online lives of
Latest writing
Crypto
Reinventing the record
Once upon a time twenty-plus years ago, people spent $100 a week on music, books, and magazines, directly supporting the
Metalabel
The onchain era
Originally published in Zora Zine.
This year people watched the crypto world burn.
Outside those who tragically lost significant sums
Entrepreneurship
On competition
There are days you unmistakably feel it: the plans of your project and other projects are converging. What started as
Creativity
The internet culture era
“How culture is made” tells four stories spanning centuries that show how creative collectives have shaped the world — from the
Ideas
How culture is made
Four stories that span centuries, geographies, and worldviews that reveal how to shape culture and the world around us.
Story
Entrepreneurship
Native behaviors
This was first posted as an internal metablog within Metalabel.
Imagine you’re told you need to direct a percentage
Ideas
Metablogging
One of the key internal rituals we adopted early on at Metalabel is something we call metablogging: internally public blogs
Crypto
Ten impressions from FWB Fest 22
This past weekend I spoke at and attended FWB Fest, hosted by the social DAO Friends With Benefits, at an
Metalabel
After crypto
This essay was originally published in Works in Progress.
Few words are as divisive as “crypto.” Say it and half
Scenes
Eight impressions from Seed Club 04
Earlier this year Metalabel was one of twenty projects in the fourth cohort of Seed Club, an eight-week accelerator program
Creativity
Rethinking labels
Sup y’all — Since we last spoke almost a year ago, I’ve been working on a new project called
Entrepreneurship
Introducing Metalabel
In 2020, Tariq Trotter, better known as Black Thought in hip-hop group the Roots, explained his involvement in an unusual
Crypto
Eleven impressions from ETHDenver 2022
Last week I attended ETHDenver, my first crypto conference. I was there to give a talk about a new project
Interviews
NFTs and how the art world is like a video game with Rafaël Rozendaal
INTERVIEWEE: Rafaël Rozendaal
BACKGROUND: Artist shown at Centre Pompidou, Whitney Museum, Times Square
TOPIC: NFTs and how the art world
Ideas
Dreams, premonitions, and the long self with author Eric Wargo
INTERVIEWEE: Eric Wargo
BACKGROUND: Author, Time Loops and Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self
TOPIC: Dreams, premonitions, and the long
Interviews
What gets measured and what doesn't get measured
TOPIC: What gets measured and what doesn’t get measured
BACKGROUND: An expert roundtable explores measurement
LISTEN: On the web,
Bentoism
When the Bento met the Doughnut
Over the last 18 months, the Bento Society has hosted a series of experiments exploring values and self-interest. In April