Alex Wittenberg

“The future might not have happened yet, but it was already decided.” “The goal,” as she put it, “isn’t participation, but submission.” 

We should not, in other words, imagine that the ability to focus intently or to give one’s sustained attention to some matter was the ordinary state of affairs before the arrival of digital technologies or even television beforehand. But this does not mean that new technologies are of no consequence. 

Proof of Attendance Protocol (POAP) creates NFTs that signify your participation or attendance in activities. They are fast becoming a way of recording your working life and building your on-chain CV. Rabbithole.gg uses NFTs in a similar manner and rewards you for completing quests or undertaking specific actions. And most of us know how well... See more

Make decisions — weighing upsides and downsides of decisions, sharing point-of-views, and coming to a decision.

As consumers, our most valuable affinities will be to brands and communities, not specific products. 

It is possible to see one crucial aspect of modernity as an ongoing crisis of attentiveness, in which the changing configurations of capitalism continually push attention and distraction to new limits and thresholds, with an endless sequence of new products, sources of stimulation, and streams of information, and then respond with new methods of... See more

Unfortunately, the patterns of our techno-social order tend toward the fracturing of community and the isolation of the person. We are offered an array of tools that promise to assuage the resulting economic and psychic precarity, but, more often than not, their real aim implicit in their design is to perpetuate and accelerate social fragmentation... See more

There should be formal and informal reporting requirements in place when working groups are established. After all, working groups should provide proof of work if they are receiving compensation from the treasury.