Network States

::Reflections on TNS Conference in Amsterdam::

🔲 Unsurprising Thing #1: 

It was the highest density of great content I’ve experienced at a conference, period. 40 speakers. Incredible quality across board. No Q & A's to waste momentum. Perfect time limits. Fast beats at transitions. Great organization.

1/n

🔲 Surprising Thing #3: 

Balaji’s Exit Poll survey was so f*ing smart! He’s explicitly searching to create a Values Graph within the movement.

It was also genius, imo, to pick particularly polarizing people/topics, since it’s useful to know what can bind us together, and what tear us apart.

fi/n

playing /bracket, assisting /bracky, talking /greatbooks

brilliant. i'm making assumptions here, but imo attendees:

a) are more likely to be true to themselves (principles > tribe), and
b) likely trust Balaji with their answers

as a result balaji may get the most accurate pulse on community sentiment, solving the noise-to-signal problem much like deliberative democracy.

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

^A and B were def true for this attendee right here