Mini-thread: against the "One Commandment"

Balaji's The Network State (see my review https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/07/13/networkstates.html ) has a concept called "the one commandment": a new startup society should have one key moral value that differs from the outside world. I argue that this is wrong.

Good thread. TLDR: one commandment is an oversimplification, but a useful oversimplification.

One way to think about it: when you pitch your community to a new recruit, how do you describe it?

Culdesac: car-free
Kift: van life
Praxis: vitalist

Note what this is *not*. It's not an economic pitch. It's a values pitch.

from personal experience applying the framework - one commandment is a good alignment litmus test that polarises outsiders either in or out. Similar to company values during an interview - they don’t explicitly define the vibe of the company but they do help scale hiring

let's build clank.fun. prev: web3 founder, improbable, github, amazon. ntik.me

personal experience: starting https://originsociety.xyz with “immersion” as the founding principle. It got the right people excited and the wrong people uneasy