Guest: Tim Ferriss
Host: Carly Reilly (w/ Bankless)
“The way you do anything is how you do everything”
Experimented with NFTs for last 2 years
Describes himself as writer or podcaster to unfamiliar people
Very competitive person – wants to suffer a little
Cockpunch – origin story
-Started w/ desire to be less precious about creative projects, looking for joy and fun and laughter
–Likes playing with new technology sandboxes
-Was drawing characters with gauntlets – the name Cockpunch popped into his mind
-Lets him play with 3d modeling, rigging, voice acting, music – lets him acquire skills that can be transferred to other places – vehicle for learning
AI art competition
-entrants had to show their work
-based on Cockpunch characters
-teaching himself – and then teach others
Chose fiction to let himself focus less on metrics, a “quantitative prison”
“Most people who want feedback…want positive reinforcement”
In any new space, tries to find someone with 10K foot view across many projects to get advice
Lots of folks get lost in weeds with NFTs / web3
Decided on 5555 mints – wanted to make sure it sells out
“There are a lot of whiny bitches in web3”
Likes advice of Scott Adams (Dilbert creator)
Thinks in terms of 6 month projects and 2 week experiments
Snowball of relationships and skills from project to project
Created term “Emergent Long Fiction”
Fiction lets him learn from new people
Set a few conditions upfront – a few characters, realms, drivers
There’s competitive games
But where it goes from here – he doesn’t necessarily know (hence “emergent”)
Set constraints and explore how creative you can be
Most people don’t know what they want
Hard to get clear signal when you ask a large audience what they want
Bullish on tokenized assets and digital scarcity
Been thru many cycles of tech
Always some new tool / platform that people say you have to use (eg, Vine)
“Assume there’s always a market for quality in any medium — and just get fucking great”
Web3 isn’t going away
But NFTs – he doesn’t know – it’s one of the meanest most aggressive communities
In this bear market, he’s down 70% net worth – but it doesn’t entitle him to behave like an asshole
Public perception of NFTs (in his audience) has soured tremendously – like a dirty word
But he likes to cull his audience from time to time if they don’t have patience or understanding
Cockpunch as an unlock has exceeded all his expectations – relationships, what he’s learning
Fiction doesn’t always mean a novel – it means story telling
Didn’t plan to do a Discord – it self-organized
In Discord – use your Cockpunch NFTs, with attributes – uses ChatGPT to write a match summary (blow by blow) of a cock fight
Others added music, voice commentary
// stopped taking notes after ~1 hour