{"type": "project", "title": "Farcaster as a Scenius", "website": "https://adrienneshulman.medium.com/the-power-of-scenius-farcaster-and-the-collective-genius-of-communities-244f018a8767", "createdAt": 1701212221105, "credentials": {}, "description": "An essay proposing that Farcaster is the ultimate scenius.\n\nScenius is a term coined by Brian Eno, describing the phenomenon that most advances in science, art and culture don't come from lone geniuses but emerge from the collective intelligence and creativity of a whole scene. Scenius is the communal form of genius.\n\nFor those of us lucky enough to have stumbled into Farcaster in the early days, it's clear we didn't just stumble into a social network, but a thriving scene of builders, with an explosion of creativity and innovation happening.\n\nIn addition to writing this essay, I also gave a lightning talk at the FarCon user conference and the scenius concept has taken off since then and has been integrated into the Farcaster lexicon and culture.\n\nSlides from that talk are here:\n\nhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NlaW0gTPEGn1LCgcbvANUC8p5YBvNSWs2kMFdNKkDyk/edit?pli=1#slide=id.p1\n\nAnd NFT here:\n\nhttps://zora.co/collect/eth:0x7430118c19eebf47dfcbce372f5d27ad79488d87", "projectTwitter": "age_shulman"}
Farcaster as a Scenius
An essay proposing that Farcaster is the ultimate scenius.

Scenius is a term coined by Brian Eno, describing the phenomenon that most advances in science, art and culture don't come from lone geniuses but emerge from the collective intelligence and creativity of a whole scene. Scenius is the communal form of genius.

For those of us lucky enough to have stumbled into Farcaster in the early days, it's clear we didn't just stumble into a social network, but a thriving scene of builders, with an explosion of creativity and innovation happening.

In addition to writing this essay, I also gave a lightning talk at the FarCon user conference and the scenius concept has taken off since then and has been integrated into the Farcaster lexicon and culture.

Slides from that talk are here:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NlaW0gTPEGn1LCgcbvANUC8p5YBvNSWs2kMFdNKkDyk/edit?pli=1#slide=id.p1

And NFT here:

https://zora.co/collect/eth:0x7430118c19eebf47dfcbce372f5d27ad79488d87
Farcaster as a Scenius