Enter the wind tunnel (User Zero, Chapter 13) — **Author’s Note: The following story is Chapter 13 in my book, User Zero. The images I created for this story have gone viral, generating millions of impressions without any attribution to me. I’m not complaining, that’s how things go online. But will you do me a favor? If you see…

A guide for how to create a digital wallet and an OpenSea account to start collecting NFTs — I recently gave away 100 NFTs to my friends and fans. Most of these patrons had no experience with NFTs, which is great. This is a great opportunity for me to expose people to NFTs and the exciting ideas that are unlocked by this new technology. It’s can also be…

Plus a thought experiment: Could you increase the value of NFTs by burning the physical art? — Hello, friends. I have a thought experiment for you today. About 97 of you received a postcard in the mail from me. I am going to try to increase the value of that art from hundreds of miles away through the power of ideas… (The art I am talking about…

and reclaim that overused buzzword, “pivot.” — Dear friend, The paths I run cut right through grasslands, interrupting the habitat of bugs that weren’t built for sidewalks. The pavement is caked with the carcasses of grasshoppers who failed to escape the treads of running shoes and tires. From ground level it must feel like a post-apocalyptic wasteland…

Receipt printer + Nintendo controller + E-ink display + Raspberry Pi —

Running in a blizzard is about as miserable as it sounds. The snow is pelting you in the face, the ground is getting slick, and the wind cuts through your dampening gear. But not always. There is a magic moment hidden in the blizzard that you’ll experience if you stick…

Embarrassing designs, 100+ inspiring images, and the complete story of how I fired myself over and over until my book cover was finished — Today I am going to take you on a trip inside the design process for the cover of User Zero. …

A How-To Guide for Editing the Simulation — Note: The following letter is a sample of my weekly email to friends. It’s free to sign up and new subscribers get Art of the Living Dead for free just for subscribing. Dear friend, Let’s say you could load 2020 into a simulation that you could replay on your computer…

How 2020 is breaking the permanence illusion — “We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” — Buckminster Fuller This might be the most optimistic view of the pandemic, maybe even life in general, that you will ever read. Sure, I have my bad days, but this isn’t one of them…