Autopia

Bhutan is dreaming and it’s beautiful to witness when political cynicism is at an all time high in the west. The concept plans for Gelephu, their new city, get me so pumped for the future. I’d like to see 100s of experiments in network states, charter cities, special economic zones, etc.

Bhutan is dreaming and it’s beautiful to witness when political cynicism is at an all time high in the west. The concept plans for Gelephu, their new city, get me so pumped for the future. I’d like to see 100s of experiments in network states, charter cities, special economic zones, etc. 

https://decrypt.co/300122/bhutans-special-administrative-region-to-adopt-bitcoin-ethereum-in-strategic-reserves

politics

Overly simplistic observation 

Critical: left = woke, identity politics
Positive: left = class consciousness 

Thoughts?

anon

anonymous tipping with $ANON would be a cool experiment

Really enjoy this rather prescient presentation given by Ralph Merkle in 2018 on DAO Democracy. It casts deep into the future and is increasingly relevant today. DAOs were a somewhat nascent concept then (*still are*) and it's interesting to note the absence of topics of conversation today such as agents and automated governance, for example. A few takeaways... https://youtu.be/WOrOFV5dLXo?

I think most (onchain) organizations don’t realize that their aesthetics are mostly downstream from their basic mechanics

Representative democracy replaces coordination problems with principal-agent problems

daos

This UX project was part of an online certificate course I took via eCornell. Interviewing DAO contributors provided great insight into their own needs and frustrations and why Discord is still a widely used platform among DAOs.

https://paragraph.xyz/@alditrus/user-research-for-a-dao-communications-platform?referrer=0xd25AD8d836Bf95e2876E34d6e46635A90C38BB86

"For DAOs to succeed, they require an integrated platform combining productivity and communication tools that minimizes cognitive load and delivers targeted information."

The point of the subscription economy is ontological. Everything — can now be a service provided at a forever cost. Ownership is often about a transactional completion, where you acquire something and then move on, satisfied with having met your need. It’s finite, with a clear start and end. Subscription, on the other hand, is a perpetual commitment, a continuous cycle that prevents closure. It keeps you tethered, never fully satisfying the need in a permanent sense because the expectation is that you’ll always be engaged, always consuming, always involved. It’s a structure that denies the ability to “move on” because it’s built around an ongoing dependency. In this way, the subscription economy by redefining time also reshape the very nature of “self”

Really enjoyable read on how two models of economic engagement, ownership and subscription, shape our personal experience of space and time and collective psychology in that world

The systems theory axiom “the structure of a system determines its behavior” is underrated alpha in the 21st century. 

If you want an organization to perform X output, first look at how that organization’s input is designed or structured.

The denial of change is a story as old as time

Technology will only make governance and organization design more expressive and fast over time.

I Took a Photo!

ITAP of Wyoming this summer. One of the most beautiful places I’ve been!

I'm being boosted this weekend so here's a thread of some of my favorite flags

Anarctica - True South

Anarctica doesn't have an official flag but many designs have been proposed over the years. In 2018, the True South flag was proposed and has been adopted by several National Antarctic programs.

always remember you are dumber than you think and smarter than you know

patterns 01

grammar of governance 

- power distribution 
- decision-making mechanisms 
- accountability systems 
- boundary definitions 
- conflict resolution 

different configs express a wide range of organizations

Warpcast

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Culture has a mind of its own. You may not be able to change it, but you can create a space for it to change, which to my mind FC/WC does and has done. The question is… does capturing every aspect of crypto culture enable escape velocity to mainstream? I think not.

I keep the spicy casts in drafts or on anon

Thinking about applying to crypto companies with an anon resume, with irl work identifiers [redacted].

Thoughts?

a1z2

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