Jean Hansen

Building @ipecity ^

Producing the docuseries The Network Society.

[Jean Hansen @peerbase_]

The full second episode of The Network Society is now available on X.

It’s our best production yet.

We visited Puerto Rico’s biotech hub to explore new cancer and blindness treatments, then returned to @Prosperahn to discuss startup-driven regulatory alternatives.

Enjoy it.

[Jean Hansen @peerbase_]

@jack why are you sharing a post defending one of the most corrupts politicians Brazil ever have? One of the most anti freedom presidents ever in Brazil who is a close friend of Maduro and helped him to cease power in Venezuela doing campaigns. You guys have no idea what you are defending.

https://t.co/s0kWDdB0fu

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@johnarnold We'll explore this on our documentary https://t.co/HFPsb3J7Uh

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@WayneVaughan @nytimes @Alphaschool 👀

[Ipê City @ipecity]

How would you build a second brain around your own knowledge and workflows?

Join @lorington and @iggynore at Ipê’s next Community Assembly to explore that question, with control over your knowledge as a guiding principle.

Our assembly will have two parts:

- Learners · @lorington
Lorin will share the architecture and design philosophy behind his second brain, built from years of journals, essays, and personal notes. He’ll also share a customizable GitHub starter repository to help you build your own.

- Builders · @iggynore
Iggy, from the Ipê community, will explore tools and practical choices for building a setup that works for you.

Bring your questions, share what you’ve been building, and join the community discussion.

Register here: https://t.co/EmGAcL0RuI

[Jean Hansen @peerbase_]

@AmarKumarEdu 🙌 thanks Amar!

[Jean Hansen @peerbase_]

First impressions of Austin have been awesome.

No time to rest or explore much, though.

Tomorrow morning, we'll be visiting our first project: an independent microschool.

The activity of the day? Kids will be cooking chicken adobo for Filipino Heritage Month.🙂 Just another casual day of learning for them.

The school is part of the @KaiPodCo network.

It's a really interesting project that supports education entrepreneurs who want to start their own microschools, with hundreds of schools in their network.

We'll be interviewing the founder, @AmarKumarEdu, in a few days too.

Sounds weird, right? School networks, microschools, kids cooking, entrepreneurs building independent learning spaces, accelerators...

Yea, that's just a small part of a much bigger revolution we're witnessing in the US and other parts of the free world.

A revolution we're documenting at https://t.co/HcfES4M9qg.

Join us!

[Jean Hansen @peerbase_]

@DJohnstonEC Thanks man! Amazing city.. let's cook something for tomorrow or friday night.

[Jean Hansen @peerbase_]

Network Society Documentary Team heading to the US.

First stop Austin.

[Jean Hansen @peerbase_]

Freedom is messy. Sometimes chaotic. But it's the only path to prosperity.

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@cyantist bullish on documentaries https://t.co/HFPsb3J7Uh

[Jean Hansen @peerbase_]

@ben_m_somers hey man! sent you an email. we are getting to Austin this week, then next we'll be in SF. 🙏

[Diogo Costa @dgrcosta]

In 2002, Brazil had a higher Human Development Index than China, Turkey, Thailand, Peru, Colombia and five other countries shown here. By 2023, all had overtaken Brazil. The world has been moving faster.

[Jean Hansen @peerbase_]

@ErikVoorhees Congrats to the team! Awesome job.

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@AskVenice Crashing! Congrats!

[Jean Hansen @peerbase_]

@FutureVillages We'll cover that too. We'll visit a school in Toronto too

[Jean Hansen @peerbase_]

GM.

Tomorrow we take off for Austin to start filming my new documentary, Learning Without Permission.

We'll visit nearly 10 cities across the US, followed by a second trip through Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and talk to dozens of builders pioneering new education models.

I'll be sharing the journey here.

Let's go!

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🇧🇷

[tylercowen @tylercowen]

In which I praise the food of Brazil: https://t.co/YY7lux7pEv, it is too bad Brazilian food in the United States is not better.

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@yakuza_santos @dwr Hahah

[Jean Hansen @peerbase_]

One thing people need to realize is that, unfortunately, decentralized social networks haven't worked yet.

That's the truth.

Farcaster's interactions dropped by 90% after @dwr sold it, down to fewer than 3,000 posts a day.

Lens has never really taken off and has been consistently declining, also hovering around a few thousand interactions a day.

I really love these innovations and have always been an early adopter of both, but so far, they've failed.

There are, unironically, Telegram groups with more engagement than these platforms.

So having someone like @balajis spending time and money trying to make the protocol useful and help it grow is really awesome.

Web3 people really love to engage in these philosophical debates about decentralization, but if no one uses it, it doesn't matter whether it's decentralized or not. It's just LARPing.

Farcaster was dead, and now it's got another shot. If you're enthusiastic about decentralized social networks, take advantage of this moment. Join NS or another client and use the momentum to your advantage.

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People who are really serious about (wet) software - culture -, should make their own social network.

@balajis just acquired @farcaster_xyz and set an explicit social contract. Only techno-optimists allowed.

A few didn't consent and exited to other clients, without losing their social graph and content.

That's how it should be. Trying to force two tribes with fundamentally different values to share the same space is crazy.

[Jean Hansen @peerbase_]

@yakuza_santos @dwr I'm Brazilian.. I added them in English in the next post

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AI is easily saving a few thousands in the documentary production so far. Insane.

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@AlgoFamily Can't wait. But I'm Brazilian, so hard to compete haha