aron
@aronshelton
Designing and navigating various contextual arrangements with an enigmatic sense of hope. #wayfinder
aron
Calm Tech and
We don't necessarily need to constantly interact with people “around” us on the web. The sensation of being in the quiet companionship of someone else, like reading next to them in a cafe, is what we're missing. The sense of ambiently sharing space – of being co-present – while engaged in other activities is a staple of shared public spaces that we're still figuring out how to design in the digital realm.
Our current “multiplayer” experiences draw too much attention to the multiplayer-ness. The other people around you demand attention. They move. They flash. They point to exactly what they're focused on, drawing you away from your own focal point. We are missing out on a fuzzier, softer sense of the shared web.
Fundamentally, I think of governance as a curation process in which the real purpose is not the top decision your making and determining your course of action. The real purpose is surfacing data. The real value of governance is seeing how your community aligns on different issues.
Rehash: A Web Podcast • Non-Financial Use Cases for Tokens w/David Phelps | S3 E2
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
Welcome to Filterworld｜Dirt
Cameron, you’ve said that when you’re not feeling particularly creative, you listen to a song, or watch a movie, or read a book, and before long you get “the urge to respond.” We typically hear the creative act described as, you know, there’s a void, and a flash of lighting cracks through it. But I really like that idea of response as intrinsic to... See more
I like the idea that mastery is simply a very intimate understanding of all the possible mistakes one could make. Daniel Dennett had a great riff on this– he recommended being a connoisseur of one’s mistakes.
Visakan Veerasamy • on scaffolding
The danger of living in possibility versus taking action: how embracing limits and failure builds strength and real growth
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I could become an actor. I could become a great novelist. I could become a CEO. I could be Elon Musk II. But the way the world works is you don achieve anything unless you have limits Having limits and hitting that wall and that resistance is what makes you learn is what makes you great is how the human brain functions
And what I mean by that is
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gnosisguild.mirror.xyz • A Prehistory of DAOs
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.