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The vast interconnection enabled by digital platforms has ended up creating more of a sense of sameness than diversity. Users are subtly guided toward the same subsets of topics, urged on by recommendations that are designed not to serve their interests but to create profitable attention fodder to sell to advertisers. Instagram doesn’t care that... See more

Anil Seth outlines 5 dimensions of self in his book “Being You”:

1. The Social Self : How we exist in relation to others, including our roles, status, and group identities


2. The Narrative Self : The ongoing story we tell about who we are and where we're going


3. The Perspectival Self : Our immediate experience of being somewhere, seeing from a particular

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When you try to make something that solves everything, you obsess over questions of power: how to make something that is omnipotent and everlasting. But when you make something that does one thing well, the questions are much more personal: does it solve my problem? and for how long? and who for? and where will it push the space around it? I want... See more

Good protocols do not just treat solutions to problems as works-in-progress, with bugs and imperfections to be worked out over the long term, but the specifications of the problems as works-in-progress as well. Good protocols learn, grow, and mature in ways that catalyze thoughtful stewardship and sustained generativity. Bad protocols on the other

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Griff and Kevin share over twenty different mechanisms for doing better collective intelligence. Why? Because when you can do better collective intelligence, you can do better collective resource allocation.

• Tithing


• Taxes


• Voting


• Markets


• Web-Based Mechanisms


• Quadratic Funding


• Conviction Voting


• Retroactive Public Goods Funding


• NFTs


• Network Goods


• Effective

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