“Field Notes from the Metaverse” will be a book that documents the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse and virtual worlds.

Writing is hard. As with projects in general, the 80/20 rule also applies to writing books. It feels like I am 80% there for the book, and I am starting to struggle with the last 20%. I am all over the place, can’t focus on a single chapter or section, and it feels like I…

Last week I focused on virtual world economics. While I love writing and talking about this, I am struggling how to best weave the topic into the book. It’s easy to go into too much detail about game design, balancing, and concepts like “fairness”. Then into monetarization in general how this might connect the virtual…

Coming back to writing after a 5 week vacation break is never easy. Of course I read a lot and made notes during that time, but I took a deliberate break from looking at the script to get some distance and hopefully have a fresh look when returning. This has worked as far as I…

This is a weekly update on my progress to document the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse.Current book word count: 96,848 Summer vacation is over. Back to writing! ✍️🗣️⌨️💪🙌

The last week or so I have been working on the overall structure of the book. I read through everything to see if there are gaps anywhere, or if some sections feel too padded.

I wanted to work on other things, but somehow I felt like doing the chapter around the crypto casino. And I’m glad I did because it really helped me draw a clear line between the casino side of crypto, and the original aspirations and visions around cryptocurrencies, NFT’s, and Web3. It now feels like they…

I wrote a lot about the Web 2.0 / Webified Metaverse era, which really are feel-good chapters for me. I think back fondly at this time, remembering the good vibes, the positive outlook on the Web, the collaboration, the barcamps and so on. And it’s interesting to look back where we were right about things,…

I really need to clean up this blog. I want to do a new about page with the updated pitch & abstract for the book. The structure-page also needs an update. Maybe I should create a dedicated page for both, not just a post.