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Designing and navigating various contextual arrangements with an enigmatic sense of hope. #wayfinder
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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
Lawson Baker • The Actual* Web3 Curation Landscape
Like resonance, the term echo chamber has both literal and figurative meanings that are related, but not the same. In the former sense, an echo chamber is an enclosed space that naturally amplifies an original acoustic signal. Literal resonance differs from echo because it is based on the idea of vibrations (good or bad). In physics’ terms, resonan... See more
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Data-driven research methods necessitate the collection of huge quantities of data and in doing so, they dismantle opportunities for paying close specific attention to the world. These methods also tend to obscure the many other ways of building understanding. Also, perhaps intentionally, data collection increasingly acts to maintain the status quo. We use data to study problems that would be more effectively addressed through simple political action. The impetus to “study the problem” ad nauseam gives the appearance of addressing an issue while perfectly maintaining the present state of affairs.
I see metalabels, or small and extremely value-aligned media DAOs, as a possible solution to the crisis in tastemaking.A lot of web3 media thinkers talk about the curation layer of media. How curation is the new creation. How decentralized media is more about curating the good stuff than actually creating the good stuff. That layer is exactly what ... See more
Samantha Marin • Metalabels will be the tastemakers of the internet
No matter how many people come over for dinner, you’re only going to be able to engage with a few.
And no matter how big the crowd in the arena, the musicians can only see the faces of a few hundred.
An investor can only be engaged and smart about a very small number of companies.
And it doesn’t matter how many students are in the class, the teacher i
... See moreSeth Godin • The natural size
Yuk Hui, a contemporary philosopher from Hong Kong, writes on the potential for digital networks to develop new kinds of urban solidarities. He writes , “for such concrete solidarity to emerge, we need a techno-diversity which develops alternative technologies such as new social networks, collaborative tools, and infrastructures of digital i
... See moreJesse McKee • From Polycrisis to the Smart Commons
The Lifestyle era was not about creating culture; it was about attaching brands onto existing cultural contexts. It was not about shaping people; it was about sorting consumer demographics into niche categories. The new order we are entering into reverses this. For some organizations, culture has become the product itself, and products have become
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