aron
@aronshelton
Designing and navigating various contextual arrangements with an enigmatic sense of hope. #wayfinder
aron
- We can build software to eat the world, or software to feed it. And if we are going to feed it, it will require a different approach to design, one which optimizes for a different type of growth, and one that draws upon—and rewards—the humility of the designers who participate within it.
from Design as Participation by Kevin Slavin
the legitimacy and accessibility of our future cities can’t be built by a monologue of exit discourse, because this leads to erasure (and the continuation) of historical resource discrepancies, power imbalances, and worlds ultimately built on fantasy. The challenge for DAOs today is to break this deadlock, embrace scaling, and find ways to start t
... See morefrom From Polycrisis to the Smart Commons by Jesse McKee
- capital demands design address the hyper-specific moment of The Now; the site of consumption, of transaction. Thats all it cares for; where it eats. But we all live in the permanent ruins of what is created for that moment. designers should design them instead. that is our world.
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A protocol is a relatively simple and codified set of behaviors that, when adopted by a sufficient number of participants (human and/or artificial) in a situation, reliably leads to good-enough outcomes for all.
from The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols by Venkatesh Rao
- Ultimately, the efficiency DAOs aspire to may not be defined as an economic function but as a matter of “better,” situated governance: one supported by deeper practical knowledge within an infinite game.
from A Prehistory of DAOs by gnosisguild.mirror.xyz
- 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.
from Non-Financial Use Cases for Tokens w/David Phelps | S3 E2 by Rehash: A Web Podcast
- I’m glad that I’m not the only one who misses old school human curation. For me, it’s more about wanting a connection moreso than valuing the actual thing being shared. I think this trend is accelerating. With generative AI and the ever-present algorithm that has sucked itself into every facet of our life, a part of the response to it will result i... See more
from The Human Medium is the Human Message by Simon de la Rouviere
In order to imagine where the future is headed, let’s first lay out the three main steps of connection building to examine how the physical and digital worlds fare at each:
- Discovery : you find someone you want to meet, or that person finds you
- Connection : some initial contact is established
- Connection strengthening : further interactions st
from The digital flip by Joey DeBruin
- Governance is essentially a curatorial tool for surfacing content according to different metrics. Because it is a curatorial system, it is fundamentally a content moderation tool. All you're doing in governance is you are moderating content.
from Non-Financial Use Cases for Tokens w/David Phelps | S3 E2 by Rehash: A Web Podcast