Issue 44: Week 3 at Edge City Patagonia
Serendipity, self-discovery, visualizing the future you want to create [week 11/3 - 9/2025]
Intro
This is another week recap in the life of a digital nomad, crypto AI developer and entrepreneur. I am leaving these blogs as traces on my journey, they are works of art, letters to my future self and anyone that is curious about what is on my mind these days.
I consider to play this song for the reading ahead, as it is the song I chose for this week.
Hike in Nature
It was a great opportunity to be in nature here. Being in nature allows us to recharge, to heal, to regain feel a balance, a harmony with nature inside of us and outside. Seeing the patterns of nature inspires the mind, it has it’s own harmony, it is not random, the geometries of trees, streams, hills, vegetation, the ripples of the lake. The hike keeps your body moving, the blood and other bodily fluids circulating, stirring up the chemicals of the body.
My mind wandered to images of how sailors and explorers saw the world in the age of exploration, hundreds of years ago. To them nature was always around, the sea was a tough environment, enormous. They developed keen senses of invention, engineering, this is how they survived and some even thrived through trade and entrepreneurship. I went on a trek with a friend, we got lost, the second time, we made it to the island, went into the ice cold water and sat on the beach meditating, both in our own world, just two friends, companions on this hike, sharing stories, insights and dreams.
On Storytelling for Startups
Founders often solve problems that they faced themselves and overcame. They built some solution that helped them be better and do better. Then they apply it to a general public, to other people’s problems. They learned something, discovered some truth, they solved a problem. Then the story is about how they got better and how they can offer this to someone else. This is how a coach can frame offering some service. For example, I got better at this, here is how you can learn to do the same. At the workshop by Rebecca, there was a crowd of about 20 people, there to learn more about story telling. I shared my story about building an AI journaling app and not knowing how to sell it well. Then people chirped up contributing questions and comments, some very helpful like about how this tool can help you improve self awareness and activate higher self discovery. Then others shared interesting comments like about a guy that does enneagram tests for people. He described it as “night vision googles for understanding people.” That it helped him repair his relationship with his sister. Then someone commented, that people will then wonder “what else it can repair for them.” It’s about building worlds that people want to join. Like a good Disney movie, you find yourself immersed into the world of the characters.
Rebecca and I became platonic friends. We bonded at the first meeting during the Vibe Residency Friday night party, where I explained to her in a very clear way how Bitcoin and Ethereum worked, from the math, the programming and the human motivation aspects. I felt good that I was able to clearly explain it. Then we met serendipitously at an organic grocery store and then decided to go on a hike after a few other meetings and chats more interesting conversations on startups, technology and writing. We found out we have a common friend which is her co-founder on a fascinating AI Burning Man startup with her. She asked about how a writer can best contribute in the world of blockchain, my answer was that through sci-fi stories that imagine the future, which then inspire people to build it. Secondly through journalism, to explain the concepts and to educate. There were many stimulating conversations that we shared, cross pollinating ideas and styles of living that we shared.
Breath work Daily with Shane
In the third week we were fortunate to have daily breath work sessions, organized by the Consciousness Residency. It as facilitated by Shane, who has been leading similar sessions for groups at EDM festivals and shows. We breathed to melodic techno songs, nearly all of which were among my favorite songs of all time, and found on my favorite Spotify playlists from the 2019-2020 period of my life. For example the one linked above, the song Pluto by “Dreamer's Delight” which was my number one listened to song in 2019. Many of the songs were by groups originating from Denver. I was happy to meet someone that had the same music taste as me. We did some Qi Gong, then breathwork and the. meditation. On the first session afterwards I shared about how I left deeply “okay” with being tense and having a shallow breath. I was able to relax and accept things as they are without trying to force them.
Story of Bostrom Network
The origin of the Bostrom Network was a thesis from the AI scientist Nick Bostrom who proposed that the path to AGI may be through collective intelligence. This network was launched on the Cosmos SDK. It' is a collection of software protocols that forms a kind of decentralized Google. Links, content are deployed and voted on by a peer to peer network. This project was created by Dima, a crypto “OG” and the founder of Cyber Valley, a pioneering network state on the side of a volcano on the island of Bali. The audience listened to the story of how the project originated, how the launch went, how it went for a few years, what were some challenges, mistakes and lessons. The project front end allows for searching the ‘decentralized Google’ for content, that shows a list of links that are ranked by most valued by the community.
Vibe Code Launch Party
Vibe code residency launched their own “vibe coin” on a launch pad called long.xyz. They raised around $1.7 million in the first few hours. I joined the event, curious to be there, to chat with the people there, support the community and see what people were building there. I tested some 2D games on a game listing website that were created by kids under twelve years old. I played with one app that allowed you to upload a photo of yourself and get your ‘vibe score’ and see how you ranked on the leader board. Another project turned a 2D Edge City logo to a floating 3D object.
Quantum Computing Presentation
An Argentinian phD student and researcher from a Quantum Studies program at a Spanish University gave a talk about the current state of this field. He covered the latest developments, what the quantum community is like and what is the future. There were many questions from the audience, about how it can be applied or disrupt the blockchain technology. There is a lot of concern and discussion around how Bitcoin, Ethereum and other blockchains can be “quantum secure,” meaning not break the encryption protocols that underly the security of billions of dollars of value. The interesting comments were around how could AI be used to accelerate quantum studies and how Quantum can accelerate AI progress.
AI Film Club
On Saturday 11/8 I hosted a second edition of the AI film club. I lead the session, sharing tips, asking thoughtful questions and at the end everyone came together and shared what they created. I worked on a new AI short reel that explained in sixty seconds the history of crypto. I was hooked on creating film with AI. I created a script, then prompts for the AI image generator in Midjourney and then converted them to video. The end result linked here if you feel called to watch it.
Hypnosis Sessions
I want to a hypnosis session and for a few minutes I gave into the state of flow. I find hypnosis very interesting and powerful tool that I wish to develop a deeper expertise in.
Josh Whiton Entrepreneur Journey
I really found Josh’s talk to be really informative, eye opening and inspiring. He founded a GPS bus tracking startup in college, bought Tesla stock early, worked for the Thiel fellowship and got Vitalik the fellowship $100,000 stipend, he created an eco tech startup called “Make soil.” His story talks about how entrepreneurs just do things, how you have to be all in, and how you really can make it as a tech entrepreneur.
Open Internet Club
I was onboarded into this community on the Gnosis chain. There is a currency here that only can be traded among members. To join the community someone needs to vouch for you. This is a very interesting experiment in new types of currencies.
Working on Augmi.lol
I spent a few days working on trying to make the AI society simulator to work inside my web app called Augmi. I really hoped that I could modify the open source software repository AI town. I got very close, the world runs with AI clones in there but there are a few bugs. I decided to stop working on it at the last Friday, knowing I couldn’t demo it with this state and that it would take too much time. The open source repo allows for running the simulations but they are not very customizable. I will return to this when I have more time. I was feeling overwhelmed by the complexity of the project at the same time excited by it. and I got some wins by reimplementing the convex backend in Node.js, updating to Pixi v8, and getting the world and characters to appear and walk around in the world. I decided to prioritize other opportunities to push Augmi into a startup that answers the needs of local Argentinian communities. Next week I did that in the Argentina Onchain Residency. During the Agartha house halloween party I pulled out the Defensive Accelerations card, it told me that in my future I would build this type of technology. The following week this would come true, as I adapted Augmi to the distributed collective intelligence platform for the local Argentinian education system.
Run Club and Workouts
On Tuesday and Thursday I lead the run club. I met an interesting Edge City VC and a few other people. We had good conversations and runs.
Norbert Weiner Readings
On Thursday I joined the Human.tech residency Aparo reading of Chapter 2 of “Human use of Human Beings.” When I saw this on the calendar I knew I had to go there as this was a writer I deeply appreciated, a founding father of cybernetics, and essentially the AI field. He was from my home country of Poland and I had a deep sense of knowing what his personality and mind was like. Cybernetics talks about feedback systems as the nature of intelligence. We can see them at play all around us. Some moments I have the flash of insight into how his mind worked and what the book was describing.
Outro
The third week of Edge City was very busy, very active, also maybe I was too burned out. I really wanted to finish the society simulator but it ended up not working out. I pivoted to focus on how to build the education AI clone tool for local Argentinian education system.
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peace
- Konrad