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the rough idea is to simulate the process of starting and growing a lemonade stand, from driveway to gigacorp and see what happens along the way will be using cursor/claude exclusively to build it

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Lemonade Stand: a proposed market simulator
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    something I will get better articulating in time is this funny parallel between crypto and the lemonade stand that makes me want to build more stuff on top of it to further drive the point home permissionless capitalism and nonsensical fund…

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    the above is a few prompts in and doesn't really work yet, but the plan is to teach myself how to build a little game to extend the lemonade stand metaphor into something interactive will share progress in this thread

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    transparency time lemonade stand a visualize value market simulator

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  4. 04 / Project: Lemonade Stand

    price is not value, value is not price happy 10th birthday ethereum

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  5. 05 / Project: Lemonade Stand

    Lemonade Stand

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  6. 06 / Editorial topic: Process

    Pour a cold one and pick 544 of your favorites from 10,000~ images.

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  7. 07 / Editorial topic: Process

    @visualizevalue @martin_klipp @CirrusGallery as true to the process as physically possible without having a physical negative as input, printed on Silver Gelatin via a chemical process traditionally used in black and white photography

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    @checksvv @gillesdc Final note — the accompanying physical piece is titled 'Proof of Work' a reference to the repetitive, energy intense process to create it and the chain on which the artwork will live forever. Tyvek is a material commonly…

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