aron
@aronshelton
Designing and navigating various contextual arrangements with an enigmatic sense of hope. #wayfinder
aron
I think that web3 can be a playground for the third freedom: the freedom to shape entirely new social realities, or shift back and forth between different ones.
from Decentralization by Packy McCormick
- Building a winning community-based brand is the process of being laser focused on a group of people with a shared identity, and developing something for them that makes them feel heard. Elements include establishing an identity that sparks excitement, using a shared language, creating s ocial content that makes them want to share yet feels aestheti... See more
from The Fast-Foodification of Everything by Greg Isenberg
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
... See morefrom The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols by Venkatesh Rao
- The perspective Moral Imaginations brings is the perspective of future generations, the perspective from past ancestors and the perspective of non-human beings including the land and place — so these different lenses also allowed people to zoom out and explore the future of Watchet from these different angles, allowing them to connect with what tru... See more
from Cultivating Everyday Imagination by Phoebe Tickell
Part of the magic of an actual book is that the reader ends up understanding. It seeps in, the aha’s are found, not highlighted.
from The Cliffs Notes paradox by Seth Godin
In the 2010s, supply chain innovation opened up lifestyle brands. In the 2020s, financial mechanism innovation is opening up the space for incentivized ideologies, networked publics, and co-owned faiths.
from Life After Lifestyle by Toby
- This quote from Elias Canetti, I think really solves what we're discussing: “A crowd exists as long as it has an unattainable goal. The image is acquired and there is nowhere else to go.” Setting off images allows crowds to condense their energy somewhere.
- Curation is the act of creating context. - Jacob Horne
from The Actual* Web3 Curation Landscape by Lawson Baker
Good protocols, in short, manage to catalyze good enough outcomes with respect to a variety of contending criteria, via surprisingly limited and compact interventions.
from The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols by Venkatesh Rao