people LOVE going to small one-conversation dinners — so definitely let people know this is a SMALL dinner and will be one conversation — you will get a much higher quality of participant.
A strong social fabric and the right tech stack will unleash a new wave of bottom-up economic experiments: interest-free P2P borrowing, anonymous lending pools, collective insurance, socialized ETFs, DAO-based freelancer unions, rotating savings schemes, revshare guilds, meme venture syndicates, crypto ponzis, exit scams, in-browser miners, upstate... See more
Squads will be as important as companies in the years to come. And as the micro-structure of our social and economic fabric changes, strong vibes and sustainability will become the new metric of success. Squads don't need to scale. They can just spread the big squad energy.
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A goal is a win condition. Constraints are the rules of the game. But not all games are worth playing. And some of the most powerful forms of progress emerge from people who stopped trying to win and started building new game boards entirely.
If you were to compress Earth’s existence into a 24-hour day, life would first appear at 4:00am, plants would first appear at 10:00pm, dinosaurs from about 11:00pm-11:40pm, and humans emerge at 11:59pm
The most radical thing you can do in a culture obsessed with optimisation is to fully occupy your own choices . To be here instead of somewhere else. To do this instead of something better. To be satisfied with enough instead of always reaching for more.