Friendships Measured in Likes

Hello intersectional thinkers 👋

Greetings from Vancouver, where this blunt message knocked me awake:

"Friendships were measured out now in shares and likes and links. Poets and priests, philosophers and fathers of small children: we were all on an endless flat-out hustle."

- Bewilderment by Pulitzer-Winning Richard Powers

1 unexpected intersection

My immediate response to a friend starting her eco-design business was "Send me your Instagram link, I'll like it and share it."

I might've even forgotten how to build friendships without likes and shares. These are the currency I'm eager to pay out. After reading Bewilderment, I realized these may be the only currency I'm willing to pay out.

But ironically, I don't expect friends to like and share my stuff. I'm even surprised when they check out my YouTube videos or read my newsletter. I assumed our friendship didn't need sustaining with likes and shares.

So we all be hustling.

Doing friendly transactions with our digital social currencies.

1 paradox:

The Bottled Water Paradox in Web3

Why we pay for bottled water is similar to why we pay for NFTs.

The WSJ says "NFTs, Cryptocurrencies and Web3 Are Multilevel Marketing Schemes for a New Generation", because the supply of digital assets is endless.

Maybe.

Or maybe we're not really buying pixels with the $22BN that went into the NFT market.

1 visual Zettelkasten:

vicky zhao 🚢 @beeamp_vicky

Friendships are officially measured out in shares and likes and links. Source: Bewilderment (fiction book) by Richard Powers <- a must read for 21st century philosophy drawn from what's left of nature 🌿 Visual Zettelkasten Day 24

Do you also feel obliged to like and share for friends? Let me know!

Have a great week!

Vicky

P.S. I’m grooving into Monday with this Korean Michael Jackson