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6th and final week of Local DAO Summer begins Sunday August 18! This week's line up includes @jgcfyi, @traviswyche, Todd Youngblood, Austin Wade Smith, Humberto Besso, Sofia Villarreal, Eliza Herald and Noah. Details in the comments! Presented by @ethereal-forest, with /chones and friends <3 https://app.unlock-protocol.com/event/local-dao-summer-2024

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Mementos (NFTs) for my series of essays entitled Community Memory are live at: http://memento.memory.community I worked to build an experience that embodies the ideas in the essays, and we're building a relational map of readers. All the public mints are gone but let me know if you need an nomination!!

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i want to nominate 3 people to mint a reader token. https://memento.memory.community/ really cool concept and visualization. u will forever be etched onchain as my nomination, so i will pick whoever makes the best pitch. (also 2$ gas for a mint on mainnet is insane)

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Thank you!!! The public mementos are all taken but anyone feel free to post an address here and we can make sure you’re nominated to get one!!

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Six great essays by @jgcfyi on building resilient communities with technology. Collectible as mementos for those who like to collect! memory.community

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Thank you to the 2 people who read all of those! Hoping to have a front-end up for my essays soon!

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I find there are two kinds of dialogue: explicit and suggestive. Both give space to respond—the first in its divisiveness, the second in the space it creates. I often err towards explicitness but claim no correctness. Instead, I'm simply hoping to start a conversation.

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Links are sometimes giving credit for a specific reference but more often than that, are a broad gesture intended to get you thinking or simply be playful.

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I don't need to be useful to all people. To some people what I’m writing will be intolerably cliche and to others it will be indigestibly opaque, but I hope someone out there will find it valuable.

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Sometimes simplification is beneficial but sometimes ideas need room to breathe and roll around in our minds. In these cases, simplification is counterproductive.

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If it feels like Im just repeating other peoples ideas, I’m ok with that. There are a lot of ideas in the world & the easiest way for new people to hear old ideas is for new people to talk about them. These things take time, repetition & contemplation just like a mantra or creed

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Pessimism is more often less useful than optimism.

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“Panaceas are dysfunctional” -Elinor Ostrom Technology can't fix everything, but it can help some things Traditionalism can't fix everything, but it can help some things You can’t fix everything, but you can help some things

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My recent ideas came together over more than 4 years of processing the ideas—maybe it is better that ideas progress in conversation with regular checkpoints of incomplete thought rather than in writing that is intended to be full formed and stand on its own for years to come.

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I admit it is difficult to not put a caveat or clarification after every statement when I write because I imagine objections to every thought. As a general rule for reading anyone else's work, I suggest you suspend some level of disbelief or skepticism when following my reading.

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When I speak generally, I am making a generalization. Generalizations can be harmful or helpful. I think that we both bear some responsibility in the interpretation of the generalizations I make.

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Because of this, I view these ideas less as static and objective truth, and more a participation in a conversation with many other wonderful people.

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I concede that there are many resources/smart people I haven’t had the time or chance to be exposed to yet, including ones that may cause me to update or change my opinions. I welcome those resources and ask that we all acknowledge each others limits in knowledge & experience.

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Similarly, I make no claims to perfectly grasp the subject at hand, or to be able to perfectly educate the reader, and I have made peace with that.

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