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Solar Flares and the Science of Fulfilment

"... True authenticity and fulfillment arise when our behavior and choices align with our core beliefs and identity."

Hamlet and Seeking Guidance in the Past

"... Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."

Growing Your Start-Up | Daniel Muggeridge

"...Forget making money. Make value!"

CATALYST Timeline

Timeline for the CATALYST publication and the CATALYST Conference

The US Election Doesn't Matter

"...Neither result will save the USA from failing."

How Tela Network can make an introduction for you

We're all operating within a cloud of noise. Making contact through a personal connection is a powerful way to get a signal through that noise.

Commissioning Podcast Background Music

"...commissioned the musician FractalNotes to compose some background music for the Tela Network Podcast."

Announcing CATALYST: 'What is to be done?'

"... CATALYST is an online, in-print, and in-person platform for change."

The Hidden Meaning of Caravaggio's Masterpiece

"...There is wonder and the terrible purpose in Caravaggio’s masterpiece..."

Opportunities for Collaboration at Tela

You can micro-consult on anything: Your field of expertise, your content, your published work, your viewpoint, and your general advice.

Template responses that offer a micro-consultation with Tela

I find these template responses very useful. They save me time and help me manage my attention.

Embracing Determinism

"... There is peace in the simple idea that you are where you are meant to be."

Hatred and the Death-Wish in 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying'

'And who are your enemies?' 'Oh, anyone with over five hundred a year.'

Tela in one minute: The Attention Standard

Tela in one sentence: Tela is a messaging app for people whose time is important.

Tela Network Talent

Talented attention is our scarcest resource. Hire it here.

How We Map Our Thoughts and Distort Reality

"...All frameworks are wrong, but some are useful."

Estrategias de Ventas de las Empresas de Lanzadera

"¿Cómo puedo encontrar clientes?"

How to use Tela

Start here.

How to Create a Tela Contact Link

Creating a paid primary contact link

AskWitt

AskWitt uses AI to help you explore Wittgenstein. "The boundaries of one's language determine the extent of one's world" - Wittgenstein

How Maps Deceive You

"... Most people are used to seeing a map of the world where they are central and other countries are peripheral."

Fascism – A Descriptive Definition

"... For the term “fascism” to retain some meaning, we cannot just use it to mean something we dislike."

ChatGPT: The missing piece

"It's a curious thing – to see a computer generate thoughts so rich and detailed, as though a person were thinking and typing at superhuman speed."

AppyBee

"Your sales pitch needs to improve. Let me show you: 'Hey, how many messages do you get ? Too many ? I have an app that can help. It's called Tela. Let's take a look at it.'" - Jan Donmez, Founder & CEO @ AppyBee

Matthias Isler, Fractional CTO

"As an entrepreneur, your most valuable resource is often time."

Tela Network visits Lanzadera Startup Accelerator

Lanzadera is a Startup Accelerator in Valencia, Spain.

Modern Entrepreneur

"Tela is a lot simpler than I thought." - Adrian Masaryk, Founder

Editorial Rules

We build on top of the principle of least surprise.

Podcast: The Political Forums of the Future

"By organizing existing digital tools around a formal forum, we can build spaces for genuine collaborative decision-making."

Digital Forums for Remote Policy-Making

“Digital communities often use crude, time-consuming methods for collective decision-making.”

The Elegant Design of Linear.app

📩 If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions - please contact Nicholas Piano on Tela: tela.app/id/nicholas_piano/7d32b1 🤝 Add Nicholas Piano on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nicholas-piano 🌎 How to join Tela Network: tela.network/join They say the best artists steal, but adapting the best parts of

Tela Referral Program

We believe that anyone who helps the Tela platform grow should be rewarded.

Why Crypto Podcasters should use Tela

"I've heard podcasters talk about the number of messages that they receive, that it's overwhelming, and that they dream of getting to inbox zero."

Tela Messaging App: Demo #1

"The value proposition of Tela is very simple: Your inbox pays you."

The West and the Decline of Habsburg Spain

" ... pessimism and disillusion has gripped the West's own ruling elite and has permeated down to the general population... "

Tela Quickstart

Brief descriptions of Tela. Intended for easy use in media, documents, conversation, and presentation.

Podcast: The Future of Messaging

"... Every professional today is overloaded with messages..."

Tela 2.0 is live: Modern Design

Tela's value proposition is simple: Your inbox pays you.

A Living Reading List

"...to see if a curated and annotated reading list can help shield my attention from online stimuli-static."

Interview: James Pennington on communications, sales, and negotiation

"The sales process is the building of a relationship between the seller and the client."

Freud and the Dynamics of the Unconscious

"... the mind is an arena, a sort of tumbling-ground, for the struggles of antagonistic impulses..."

Documento de Política Estratégica de Tela Network

"Tela Network está construyendo un espacio digital que recompensa la atención humana."

Tela Network Strategic Policy Document

"Tela Network is building a digital space that rewards human attention."

Podcast: Blockchain and the Future of Accounting

"Auditing will become continuous and real-time, allowing financial decisions to be made with present knowledge rather than past knowledge."

Love, Lies, and Fiction in the Soviet Union

"... a perfect example of what fiction does - illustrate reality in a way a series of facts cannot..."

Notes from the Political Studies Association Undergraduate Conference 2024

"I had the honor to present my research 'Digital Forums for Policy Making' at the Political Studies Association (UK)..."

Bitcoin: The Modern Reformation?

Exploring Parallels with Past Socioeconomic Shifts.

Five Insights from Business Breakfast Meetup 30-03-2024

You are selling potential, not present success.

Podcast: Bitcoin and Human Rights

"... In our new digital world, the only route to freedom is to defend your right to keep your secret keys safe..."

Paul Diamond LLM on Bitcoin, Human Rights, and Surveillance

"... In our new digital world, the only route to freedom is to defend your right to keep your secret keys safe..."

Interview: CEO of Route3: Lazar Travica on appchains

"I think that in the future, we'll move mission-critical systems to private blockchains i.e. appchains..."

John Underwood

Senior Solutions Architect - Search @ MongoDB. Ask John Underwood about Tech Pre-Sales, Search, and GenAI.

Podcast: Respect Your Attention

"...drowning in the 'internet of noise'."

Podcast: Starship Troopers and Democracy

"... authority and responsibility must be equal... to permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster."

Vote for Tela Network on the Network State Dashboard

"... the successor to the nation state, a concept we call the network state..."

Podcast: The Future of AI and Blockchain

... the truth is that AI and blockchain go together perfectly...

Robin Muntwyler

Lead Business Development Manager @ Hypt. Ask Robin Muntwyler about Business Innovation, Business Development, Digital Marketing, and Growth Marketing.

PostgreSQL: Protect tables against accidental deletion

There is a risk of accidentally deleting an important table whenever we interact with a PostgreSQL server.

PostgreSQL: Protect schemas against accidental deletion

There is a risk of accidentally deleting an important schema whenever we interact with a PostgreSQL server.

PostgreSQL: Prevent accidental database deletion

When we interact with a PostgreSQL server, there is a risk of accidentally deleting an important database.

Georgi Kovachev

Co-Founder & Data Scientist @ Clouddo. Ask Georgi Kovachev about Data Science, Machine Learning / AI, Business Intelligence, and Personal Development.

Tela Redesign: Monetize Your Inbox

We're building a messaging app for the 21st century - one that can handle the era of information overload.

Linux command toolbox

This page is managed by StJohn Piano.

Rohas Nagpal

Author | Blockchain Architect | LinkedIn Top Voice. Ask Rohas Nagpal about Cyber Law, Cyber Crime Investigation, and Blockchain Technology.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

"... I have occasionally imagined Ozymandias fully aware of the joke..."

Notes from Business Breakfast Meetup 2024-02-17

Consistency creates authenticity.

Nick Apps

Cofounder & Head of Product @ Counsl. Ask Nick Apps about Business Development, AI, and Entrepreneurship.

New CEO @ Tela Network: Nicholas Piano

Tela Network's mission is to protect and reward human attention.

Podcast: Free Speech Doesn't Exist

"... there is no objective, mechanical way to regulate speech..."

Notes on pnpm

This page is managed by StJohn Piano.

Narrative Magnification

The movie director Michael Bay is often ridiculed by those who consider his motion pictures to be gaudy and over-the-top. I mostly agree, but there are some aspects of his film-making that are quite masterful and deserve closer attention. I will describe a shot from one of his films, and

Tuğrul Gökbel

Front-End Developer @ End Point Corporation. Ask Tuğrul Gökbel about Front-End Development, React, Redux, and Typescript.

Notes on Python editable installs

This page is managed by StJohn Piano.

How to use Tela for consulting

With Tela, people can pay a reasonable amount to ask you a question or two about your work and your experience.

Eigirdas Skruolis

Front-End Developer @ Hypt. Wordpress Expert. Ask Eigirdas Skruolis about Front-End Development, Wordpress, React, and Angular.

Notes on Postgres role management

This page is managed by StJohn Piano.

The Post-Capitalist Internet

"... Most people are hooked to an endless flow of optimally stimulating content..."

Nicola Templeton

Director of Development and Communications @ Melbourne Anglican Foundation. Ask Nicola Templeton about Fundraising, Communications, and the Not-For-Profit sector.

Notes on git

This page is managed by StJohn Piano.

The battle for Washington

Over the course of the coming year, America will likely be roiled by its internal political dysfunction in a way we have never yet seen.

GreatInsights Twitter Archive

This page is an archive of posts made from the GreatInsights Twitter account.

Notes on nano

This page is managed by StJohn Piano.

Guillermo Pablos Murphy

CCO @ Tela | Communications Intern @ Cassinia Environmental | MA International Relations

The Politics Of Tomorrow - Make Your Vote Count

"... I believe this research can provide practical lessons for the democratic tools of the future. I believe your voice should be heard."

Podcast: Money is Communication

"... in the future, there will be no real difference between a social app and a money app..."

Project: Scanning through the entire Bitcoin blockchain

"... The story of the last 15 years is one of a steady buildup to peak throughput and size at the block ~500k, followed by a slow decline, and then a recent uptick..."

My .zshrc file

This page is managed by StJohn Piano.

My .vimrc file

This page is managed by StJohn Piano.

Notes on PyCharm

This page is managed by StJohn Piano.

PostgreSQL: Background

This page is managed by StJohn Piano.

Software Development Strategy

This reference page is managed by StJohn Piano.

Software Development Tools

This reference page is managed by StJohn Piano.

Docker

This reference page is managed by StJohn Piano.

Podcast: Youtube is the new Town Square

"... the book, once the primary means of knowledge transfer, has now been displaced by video..."

Casey Flaherty on Messaging Overload

Messaging overload is not just about the total number of messages. It's also that so many messages are of such low quality.

Nicholas Piano

User Interface Developer @ EndPointDev. Ask Nicholas Piano about Bitcoin, Blockchain, and User Interfaces.

The Bitcoin Genesis Block

"... This message proves that the genesis block was created on or after 3 January 2009, since Satoshi would have had to read the headline before including it in the block..."

Yanis Varoufakis on Techno-Feudalism

"... Capitalism has already evolved out of itself. It has been transformed into another system..."

Jamie McNaught joins Tela Network as Senior Advisor

Role: Advise Tela on UK Financial Regulation and crypto compliance.

Jamie McNaught

CEO @ Solidi Cryptocurrency Exchange (registered with the UK FCA). Ask Jamie McNaught about life as a CEO, Bitcoin, Blockchain, UK Financial Regulation, and 5MLD.

The Social App of the Future

Modern life makes it hard to find each other. Let's use tokens to make it easier.

StJohn Piano

CTO @ Solidi Cryptocurrency Exchange | CMO @ Tela Network | Blockchain Consultant

Isaac Piano

Captain in the British Army (Royal Corps of Signals). Ask Isaac Piano about life as an officer in the British Army and Project Management.

Isaac Piano joins Tela as Project Management Consultant

Role: Plan, coordinate, and develop Tela Medical - a Medical Locum Agency.

Balaji Srinivasan on the Three Types of Bitcoin-States

Bitcoin trifurcates the world into three kinds of states: Bitcoin atheist, Bitcoin monotheist, Bitcoin polytheist.

Creating an account on Tela

Let's walk through the simple steps to set up an account.

'Participatory Design of Digital Democratic Polls': a Dissertation Proposal

"... Ultimately, whether or not blockchain technology will lead to the rise of a new economic order is not—solely—a technical matter; it is, first and foremost, a political question."

Podcast: The Network Era

"... All of the things that are growing today are networks..."

Roadmap #1

... We will contact every society on Balaji Srinivasan's Network State Dashboard...

A Quick Interview with Social Strategy Consultant Marie Tuason

Storytelling is an underrated skill that everyone needs to learn if they want to succeed in this era.

TikTok influencer John F Dong encourages 42.3K followers to contact him on Tela

TikTok video: tiktok.com/@johnfdong/video/7274942474651438341 John F Dong's profile: beacons.ai/johnfdong

James Burnham on Machiavelli

"... The desires of mankind are immense, and insatiable..."

The Challenges of Digital Marketing

Everyone quoted in this article is dealing with digital marketing and its challenges *right now*.

Guillermo Pablos Murphy joins Tela as Network Policy Officer

Role: Research and plan the political structure of the network.

Liberty in the Network Era

"... Ancient liberty is collective sovereignty..."

Satoshi Nakamoto's insights on the nature of Bitcoin

"... Proof-of-work is essentially one-CPU-one-vote..."

Tela brand concept design #1

Tela has just completed a brand concept design project.

Carl Jung on the disadvantages of pioneer work

"... one stumbles through unknown regions; one is led astray by analogies..."

Pre-paid tokens: Tela in the wild

Pre-paid tokens allow users and creators to verify payment with a single click. This is what anyone will see when clicking on any valid link. In any chat, simply click on the + button in the lower right to select the creator product. Clicking "prepaid token" will navigate to the menu

May 2023: the state of Tela

Tela is now live at tela.app ! Tela is at the crest of a new wave of ways to interact with others on the internet. Let's take a quick look at the features available now and a sneak peek at what we have planned for the near future. Payment for

Topping up your wallet balance

To send messages on Tela, you'll need to purchase Tela credits using USDC.

Tela Network

Our mission: To help people charge for their attention on the Internet.

The value of Tela shares

Tela shares receive dividends from the network revenue, which comes from message fees.

Why Tela offers shares to its users

In the blockchain era, the most successful networks will offer shares to their users.

Why we chose the name "Tela"

The name illustrates our vision for the future of Internet communication.

Why we started Tela

We live in an era of information overload.