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Farcaster as a Scenius

                                        
                        $22.17 crowdfunded from 55 people
                    
                        $130.18 received from matching pools

https://adrienneshulman.medium.com/the-power-of-scenius-farcaster-and-the-collective-genius-of-communities-244f018a8767

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Essay asserting Farcaster as a prime example of 'scenius,' emphasizing the collective intelligence of its creative and innovative user community.

An essay proposing that Farcaster is the ultimate scenius.

Scenius is a term coined by Brian Eno, describing the phenomenon that most advances in science, art and culture don't come from lone geniuses but emerge from the collective intelligence and creativity of a whole scene. Scenius is the communal form of genius.

For those of us lucky enough to have stumbled into Farcaster in the early days, it's clear we didn't just stumble into a social network, but a thriving scene of builders, with an explosion of creativity and innovation happening.

In addition to writing this essay, I also gave a lightning talk at the FarCon user conference and the scenius concept has taken off since then and has been integrated into the Farcaster lexicon and culture.

Slides from that talk are here:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NlaW0gTPEGn1LCgcbvANUC8p5YBvNSWs2kMFdNKkDyk/edit?pli=1#slide=id.p1

And NFT here:

https://zora.co/collect/eth:0x7430118c19eebf47dfcbce372f5d27ad79488d87

Farcaster as a Scenius History

accepted into How We Connect: Media, Art and Content 11 months ago. 55 people contributed $22 to the project, and $130 of match funding was provided.

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