Alex Wittenberg

We might be predisposed to think of attention as a laborious effort of the will. But I don’t think this is quite right. Our attention can, for example, be solicited by what is beautiful or compelling in such a way that we will find it a pleasure to give and sorrow to withdraw. As Simone Weil has put it, “Attention is bound up with desire. Not with... See more

The story of a human retreat from this world, either to the stars above or the virtual realm within, can mask a disregard for or resignation about what is done with the world we do have, both in terms of the structures of human societies and the non-human world within which they are rooted. Put another way, we might say that imagining the digital... See more

Principles of treasury management

Tie revenue from the enterprise version directly to the token so that everyone gets paid in proportion to the success of the overall project (open source + service model)

“The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself,” Bergson wrote, “and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.” Once again, the seemingly dispiriting message here is actually a liberating one. Since every real-world choice about how to... See more

A shared database seems like a great place to put a unified user table, and get rid of the archaic need for every application to create their own identity system.This is the promise of decentralized identity and a core pillar of the Web3 vision: every user and builder is in control of their own data, value, relationships, and information. In this... See more

Aristotle argued that true leisure—by which he meant self-reflection and philosophical contemplation—was among the very highest of virtues because it was worth choosing for its own sake, whereas other virtues, like courage in war, or noble behavior in government, were virtuous only because they led to something else. The Latin word for business,... See more

In special cases where many transactions require synchronous signing, a working group may opt for a lower threshold