Alex Wittenberg

So how do you prepare?

This is an observation about human rationality as much as it is about the epistemic conditions generated by life in what Jay Bolter has aptly termed the digital plentitude and which I usually call the Database. We are not as narrowly rational in our thinking as many would like to believe. Which is why conventional “solutions” to the problems... See more

NFTs are not securities, and thus perfectly legal as commodities. They are more like artwork or souvenirs, whose prices also fluctuate. Just because a signed photograph of Kanye West gets more valuable if West is more famous doesn’t mean it qualifies as a stock. But $APE is much closer to a security, because it’s not an artwork; it’s money. It’s... See more

In summary, eight imagined qualities of decentralized autonomous organizations are autopoietic, alegal, superscalable, executable, permissionless, aligned, co-owned, and mnemonic. Drawn from observation, these qualities trace desires for interdependence growing in the cracks of legacy institutions, as well as the dubious inheritance of cybernetic... See more

The market cap is the circulating supply of tokens multiplied by the token price. The FDV is the current price multiplied by the max supply, if all tokens were in circulation.

Task checklists: Each new member must complete a small list of tasks (eg. introducing themselves, joining a community call, completing a bounty, and/or messaging a core contributor)

Processes are not complex chains of people doing things that are burdened by horrible overheadsProcesses are expectations made explicitThey can be as simple as "every morning we all do X to ensure everyone else is unblocked."Have few but very explicit processes and expect them to be followed.