aron
@aronshelton
Designing and navigating various contextual arrangements with an enigmatic sense of hope. #wayfinder
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There will always be designers to design the Hummers and the bumper stickers, and there will always be designers to make websites to propagate the warnings and promises of David Foster Wallace. But a new generation of designers has emerged, concerned with designing strategies to subvert this “natural default-setting” in which each person understand... See more
Kevin Slavin • Design as Participation
I'm so thankful that I'm an addict and that I'm an alcoholic, because I have these people. And without that addiction and alcoholism and without coming to the point where I could admit that, I don't know that I would have ever had a bond with such an amazing group of people as this. And it's awesome because it's not just here. It's not just in the
... See moreTaste is about preference. When someone has "good taste" they have well-refined preferences. Taste sounds like a snotty term that a sommelier uses, but we all have tastes, even if we're not talking about taste in full-bodied reds from Northern Italy. We have taste in music, taste in design, and taste in literature (even if your literature is banger... See more
Samantha Marin • Metalabels will be the tastemakers of the internet
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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 Altru
Griff Green • Coordination Mechanisms with Griff Green | Green Pill #65
Metalabels will be the tastemakers of the internet
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“We only count what we know to count, and that's strongly determined by where we stand and who we are.
I often hear people say that qualitative research isn't generalizable, by which they mean that they use "sample" that do not have the features necessary to make valid inferences about a known population.
Forget for a minute that most survey samples aren't truly random, that confidence intervals are often not included, and so on.
We're all operating with the kind of bias that makes it hard to find hay in the haystack. We're biased towards things that are already legible to us. Statistical methods make a virtue of that.
Qualitative research helps us to de-center our concepts, to expand our understanding of the frameworks and schema that operate in lesser examined corners of life.
Even numbers aren't simply a sequence of digits, but a continuum of rationality and irrationality, with the latter making up the grand majority.
Going Further is about changing your stance in ways that challenge our sense of what counts.”
Adam Talkington
Head of Ethnography at Further&Further
The designers of complex adaptive systems are not strictly designing systems themselves. They are hinting those systems towards anticipated outcomes, from an array of existing interrelated systems. These are designers that do not understand themselves to be in the center of the system. Rather, they understand themselves to be participants, shaping
... See moreKevin Slavin • Design as Participation
As time passes, Web3 curation will provide a wealth of social context to the Internet’s most prized assets. We have not even contemplated what the Web3 Curation economy will look like. Open access to data, community-based economies and clear incentives will enable the emergence of new kinds of social experiences online. Creators and curators will b... See more