Here is the full text of my keynote at the P.A.R.A.D.I.G.M. Shift event at Meow Wolf on September 15, 2023, presented by Santa Fe NFT. I gave an abridged version of the talk due to time constraints. Thanks, Jeff and Kari from Santa Fe NFT, for pulling together this amazing…

The Mirror (A Poem) A child’s toy Inside a doll’s house we abide Oh, joy! Augmentation Superpowers of elation Superhighway to frustration That siren call, connection A knife edge, an inflection Confronted with our own reflection Do we gaze thereon Or turn and run? This lone hermetic venture Grants none, asks no quarter A point of no return Inexorably Drawn in Part Three of this series of short postings is here.

After glancing sidelong at this important question for the last few years — after all, who would dare look directly into the fire? — I have decided to tackle it head-on. …

For the last almost two years I’ve been trying to lay down guidelines as to what this thing everyone is calling the Metaverse is NOT: not a video game, not for a select few, not controlled by a single corporation, not tied to a single device, in fact not specific…

Almost two years ago, I wrote The Seven Rules of the Metaverse in response to abundant nonsense swirling about the infosphere. Techies, creatives and fanboys alike got swept up in mad excitement after Zuck said the M-word and rebranded his company. Newly minted experts crawled out of the woodwork. ETFs…

Artists are taking the power back — and we mean to keep it this time A specter is haunting the entertainment industry — the specter of decentralization. Creators are in open revolt across film, TV and music. Years of dwindling residuals, exorbitant take rates by the large streaming platforms and…

Creator Mode, Activated Fifteen months ago, I announced my departure from Unity to explore the broader Metaverse landscape beyond the four walls of a company — and also to more fully focus on my creative pursuits, in particular my lifelong work in music, which had been on the back burner…

America is broken. On the one-year anniversary of the Robb Elementary shooting in Uvalde, Texas, I am dropping my genesis NFT. I wrote a song about it shortly after the shooting, with the intent of eventually recording and releasing it. …

Bear market? What bear market?! web3 music rolled through the downturn without skipping a beat. Independent artists led the way… and they’ll lead us forward in 2023. The bear market was no match for music. While high profile NFT collectibles tanked following the crypto crash of late 2022, music NFT…