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Content Experiment #4: Live casting my reactions to @cdixon.eth’s “Read Write Own” It might take 3 hours or all week, but I’ll cast all my thoughts as I have em. 1st impression: Wonderful cover art and an NFT mint I couldn’t get to work on mobile (I guess it’s delivering the real crypto experience 🙃)

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Also what an incredibly stacked book jacket. These are some heavy hitters fr Which makes me wonder…

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Who is “Read Write Own” written for? It’s not immediately obvious to me, but there are some hints already. Big Tech is noticeably absent from the jacket, but Big (Disney + Nike) and Tech (Altman + Suleyman + Kelly) are both all in! Mark Cuban as bait for business book readers is also telling.

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Combine this w the veritable art piece of a cover illustration (beach sunrise digitalized painting?? - what a specific vibe) My guess rn is RWO is written for non-independently wealthy, but still-relatively-self-actualized Silicon Valley operators AND anyone that used to tweet a lot from Brooklyn Let’s begin 🫡

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god I’m such a sucker for Dyson adjacent content - gg on quote selection this is gonna get some CS undergrads absolutely ripping on random ass MVPs for new social networks

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Table of Contents is MUCH denser than expected. Not revising my intended audience yet, but i am curious how this ends up playing out. Some corpo-tech books and up just repeating the same thing in a bunch of different ways bc people are just skimming anyways but fingers crossed here it’s not!

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TOC pt 2 - it’s interesting to note how much actual crypto native vernacular is used. (Not much but he did say NFT which is bold and I appreciate that a lot) Imo this is the right decision for the audience I THINK it’s for Farcasters might be less impressed by this bc it might make everything feel dumbed down

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Introduction - Mostly a specific version of history where Big Tech is obviously the bad guy in this narrative. I think it plays into public perception (and tbh reality) of modern tech well Software as creative expression isn’t as effective imo but blockchains as steel vs wood is a GREAT device

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1. Why Networks Matter Nice little ode to the power of interconnections + math Neat riposte to the reflexive “REGULATE MORE” that democratic aides who have to read this to brief their lawmaker on RWO will def think while reading this Also I’m such a sucker for well-curated quotes to complement ideas

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2. Protocol Networks is nerd bait tech history porn done v well It’s a great journey linking Greek linguistics to techno-hippie developers to centralized name spaces to decentralized take rates to RSS and more. It omits some important specifics but it’s ch 2 w a full exploration later! (also omfg THE QUOTES)

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It’s also important to point out that @cdixon.eth isn’t just talking about why protocols make sense for fundamental infra or why they haven’t worked since email/web He’s pointing out specifically the ideas that devs like as solutions but have never worked irl. He’s logicking HackerNews into a corner.

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3. Corporate Networks - another history lesson except this time on how corporations corrupted the internet’s permissionless garden of Eden Here’s where I’m getting nervous. I am immediately suspect of anything VC-fund adjacent bc the incentives are what they are. Chris notably founded @a16zcrypto so…

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I figured this chapter would either be: 1. A softball retelling hard enough to piss off normal people but not enough to alienate the Zuck’s of the world Chris inhabits Or 2. A jugular shot at everything old so a16z can rebuild the internet in their own image w their portfolio co’s It’s sorta in the middle?

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Facebook is an example villain, but Chris is working really hard to make the company the villain NOT the entrepreneur And not really the co, but the co’s DESIGN is his villain It’s a really neat device that abstracts away the perceived “evilness” of capitalism and diverts the ire to the corp network design

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Anyway on to crypto bits 🫡 (fun fact I’m ALSO a sucker for negative space)

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4. Blockchains It’s interesting to me to choose this quote when we can clearly see many examples where platform intermediation is a feature (don’t have to deal w customer support is common boon of platforms) not a bug It fits with the sell of “corporations bad” but might be a little too easy to beat up online

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