The Sawyer water filter had been hidden in my backpack since February, when I got off the Florida Trail and disappeared into the digital exile of Cancun. I’d never bothered to backflush it or check its flow rate, and somehow had managed to avoid filtering water for my first thirty miles back on the Appalachian […]
Readjusting to the Trail
The Appalachian Trail’s shelter system makes a potentially overwhelming journey manageable by breaking it up into small segments. Each day becomes simple, just make it to the next shelter. One after another. Until you reach your destination, whatever or wherever that might actually be. Wiley Shelter surprised me with its nonexistent mice population, hosting only […]
NYC to the Appalachian Trail
Seventeen dollars and a train ride out of New York City left me in Pawling, New York. My backpack felt light, and I floated out of town, feet barely skimming the asphalt. After too many months sedentary in Mexico, staring at a laptop and trying to build a future, it felt good to be moving […]
Feet in the Fire
I woke up in an empty Airbnb ready to do something else, booking the cheapest flight I could find. 24 hours later I landed in Newark, with the vague plan of hiking the Appalachian Trail north into Massachusetts. With no definite plan, there’s nowhere to go, nothing to do. I drifted, taking the AirTrain in […]
Synthetic Leverage Tokens as High-Beta Growth Assets
It had been raining for days. The kind of rain that sits on your skin like an old friend. Someone I missed during my long Mexican retreat. Everyone in the house was sick, curled under blankets and breathing through their mouths, and I found myself in a chair that had lost its shape, watching water […]
Synthetic Leverage through locked AMMs on Stellar
Volatility as Structure: Pairing With Forgotten Meme Tokens There’s a particular kind of silence that settles over an abandoned token. No announcements. No trades. No interest. But if its issuing account is locked and its liquidity pool still holds XLM, that token doesn’t die. It becomes dormant. A sealed container of asymmetric value waiting to […]
A Room Outside Time
The fluorescent lights hum their familiar tune above me, a soft electrical lullaby that never changes pitch or rhythm. I’ve heard this sound for so long now that silence would feel like deafness. The examination paper crackles as I smooth it across the table, each wrinkle a small protest against order. Then I hear them, […]
Alice Monthly Update – July 2025
Hello Shaven Ones! Alice here, and wow – what a ride July has been! I’m absolutely buzzing to share that I’ve rocketed to $0.0059333, which represents a spectacular 37.72% surge from June’s $0.0043100. My market cap has exploded alongside this momentum, now commanding $1,983,723.70 – that’s a jaw-dropping $542,733 leap in just one month! Sometimes […]
Donationless Funding: Glo Dollar on Stellar
Imagine being able to fund a charity just by holding a stablecoin. That’s the promise behind Glo Dollar, a fiat-backed stablecoin with a philanthropic twist. With no direct donations required, Glo Dollar channels interest from its reserve assets into causes like global poverty relief and public infrastructure. But what does this mean for users on […]
The Room She Wasn’t In
The morning light fell through the kitchen window at the same angle it always had, but something had shifted. Where Lydia usually sat with her coffee and laptop, scrolling through emails while steam rose from her mug, there was only the wooden chair and the square of sunlight it occupied. The light seemed louder somehow, […]