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“I found a piece you wrote in the footnote of a book that I admire.” In other words, it took effort for us to find each other. And much like an inefficient light bulb gives off heat, folk search algorithms have the byproduct of context.

In the end, maybe that’s the only definition of authenticity that doesn’t fall apart under close inspection: not a... 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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Victor Hugo once remarked, “Everything had already been said, but nobody listened, so it had to be said again” —and his wise words bear repeating.

When you start thinking about governance as content moderation, it gets really interesting because fundamentally it's about what your community believes overall, the content that matters to them.

Good protocols, in short, are the embodiments of A. N. Whitehead’s famous assertion that “civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.” Not only do good protocols deliver civilizational advances, they do so in sustainable ways. “Stability without stagnation” (a guiding

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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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