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Category: Influence 
Article: The Slow Death of the Firm by @nick, 2017
Tags: post-BTC, the-firm, work, agents, tokens 
Notes: Been writing a...article? vision statement? articulation of some of the ideas behind clanker this week and keep coming back to this piece by Nick. He succinctly articulates BTC's radical mechanisms and explores what coordination, ownership, and governance looks like down the road, arriving at the death of the firm. 

here on Farcaster, we inhabit a strange frontier where emergent tech intersects with a thriving, global token economy. petty grievances aside, the purple app has enabled thousands of users to abandon conventional organizations, ditch the firm, and walk another path. I love it.

founder /openventures | /proxyswap | tokenbot @clanker

Stagnation is people annoyed when users enjoy a product, because the product is wrong & so are the users. They're farmers, we say, as if farming might ruin the plan. When the speculative crypto market is wrong, shutting it out is right. In isolation, its possible to imagine what a perfect might be, or the apps that would scale it. But without the chaos of imperfect users, the network sits captured, not cozy. The builder tinkers with their contraption, while outside the kids play with sticks and rocks. Whoever has the most fun wins, but fun is defined as the tinkering, not the game.

the best thing to happen to Farcaster is the slow death of all of our ideas of it.

Stagnation is people annoyed when users enjoy a product, because the product is wrong & so are the users. They're farmers, we say, as if farming might ruin the plan. When the speculative crypto market is wrong, shutting it out is right. In isolation, its possible to imagine what a perfect might be, or the apps that would scale it. But without the chaos of imperfect users, the network sits captured, not cozy. The builder tinkers with their contraption, while outside the kids play with sticks and rocks. Whoever has the most fun wins, but fun is defined as the tinkering, not the game.

the best thing to happen to Farcaster is the slow death of all of our ideas of it.

https://thecontrol.co/the-slow-death-of-the-firm-1bd6cc81286b

my conviction is that farcaster won't win by shutting out markets, no matter how much slop they generate. short term, certain actors might win, even thrive, but over time we'll be isolated by our insistence on an ideal > a reality. we'll contort ourselves into uncomfortable shapes to map onto the markets we shun, and the slop will continue to hoover up user demand regardless.