Autopia

The goldilocks zone of governance is a self-optimizing composition of two polarities, centralization and decentralization, in service of the larger organization's continually evolving raison d'etre.

Any focus on scale often misses the point of quality density. The latter is a stronger indicator of success imo. Governance job includes this: to increase the quality density of the community in the context of the governance purpose.

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

emotional

Learning slowly that some relationships can simultaneously be good, great even, but not right. 

Shits hard, man.

politics

Overly simplistic observation 

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

Thoughts?

july

To liberate our minds, we must not stop at deconstructing every story and its narrative logic. We must also be free to fire off new visions of ourselves, and quick to abandon them. For the magic to take root it must be poetic, therefore it must understand and value loss.

We already know the secret to longevity: evolve or die.

Evolution is a novelty-seeking algorithm. Find a new idea, and you will outcompete others. Stop learning, stop searching, and you will be outcompeted.

applicable on both the personal and societal level

anon

anonymous tipping with $ANON would be a cool experiment

daos

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?

Sharing this video/thread on a Ralph Merkle’s 2018 presentation on DAO democracy.

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

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

building @anonworld / prev: manifold.xyz opensea.io

@anonworld will soon support creating new communities like @anoncast.

Communities are groups of users with shared credentials that is backed by a token, a shared Farcaster account, and a shared wallet. 

Community members can perform anonymous actions, such as posting to Farcaster and X/Twitter, and more soon.

This is arguably the most important aspect of the announcement. Anonymity will allow communities to communicate in a much more democratic and meritocratic way that shifts the emphasis from the personal game (status) to the best idea game.

Introducing @anonworld 🌐

An anonymous social network where posts are made with zk-based credentials.

Based on @anoncast, its designed as a flexible platform to support more credentials (beyond balances), actions (beyond posting), and communities (beyond ANON) going forward.

Built on Farcaster.

https://anon.world

Crypto marketing meta has been "abstract away the values because that's not what motivates people." If you can make an anonymous network fun, will that fun not be directly tied to the anonymity itself? Let's see if it cooks.

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

citizen 01 of the city in the sky /autopia

a1z2

@a1z2