Shane Mac
This morning I came across a search from about a year ago. I remember sitting at a coffee shop in Nashville and I typed a question into Claude: "How do I get one of our leaders to take more ownership?" Eleven seconds later I had a plan. Frameworks.
Hakone, Japan. Last night of the trip. May 2026. The train had already shut down for the night. We stood on the platform in Hakone, last night of the trip, no clear idea if the place we'd found online was a restaurant, an event space, or just some
May 2026, 4 p.m. Sitting at my mom’s house in Southern California. Homemade Italian beef, great conversations on the couch and a shower head that doesn’t go above my chest. I’ve been here two days after a stretch of work that left me
This is my first blog post I’m publishing from just messaging my little agent on the Convos app. ( http://convos.org ) The idea of blogging by simply talking to my agent, feels like one of those moments in the early days of Twitter. Except I trained my agent
TLDR: Someone combined Bluetooth mesh messaging with XMTP's decentralized protocol, without anyone arranging it, and the result is communication no government can fully shut down. I got a notification yesterday that I've never gotten before. "Someone nearby is on Bitchat , the mesh network." I
This post was originally published on the XMTP blog . I've been thinking about this idea forever. I'd love to know if this resonates with you or if you're feeling this now, too. In 2004, Clay Shirky stood in front of his Social Software class
I need to talk about something I don't see anyone talking about. And I think it might be the most important question of this entire era. We're all so busy celebrating how fast AI makes us move that nobody's asking where the hell we&
The team at Freedom Factory has been working on a new device that will come out in 2026. This device comes with XMTP built in. A lot of people have a lot of opinions about this device, but I think most are missing the bigger picture. Let me explain... First
The Base App is officially live to the world. Base App isn’t just another crypto app. It’s a social and economic Superapp where you can  create, earn, trade, and discover —all inside DMs and group chats. Chat is not just a feature but a
Group chats are broken. Everyone's adding me to them, that's why I hate them. Group chats today are like getting married on a first date. It's a lifetime commitment that I have no idea if I want to be a part of. If we
We launched a secure chat app on XMTP this week with World Chat . We also released our own new chat app on XMTP called Convos this week. On one hand, I'm like I don't need another chat app. I feel ya. On the other hand, I
World has integrated XMTP to create World Chat, the first messaging network built on proof of human and decentralized, quantum-resistant encryption.
Communication doesn’t need a single company in the middle. Messaging needs open protocols where we don’t have to trust anyone.
The experience I had on Base App this morning reminded me of some of my first mobile experiences back in the day. In 2010, people laughed at the idea of trading stocks on your phone. Too clunky. Too risky. Not Serious. Real investors used real terminals. Then mobile-native apps
Earlier today, I saw a post from Fred Wilson about his new Seeker Device. I got mine about a month ago and decided it's time to try it out. I wanted to try something different, so I started with a question... Could I use this device for digital