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Designing and navigating various contextual arrangements with an enigmatic sense of hope. #wayfinder
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Embrace win-lose ideas
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.
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
As Anaïs Nin wrote, “When we go deeply into the personal, we go beyond the personal. We achieve something that is collective.”
Suleika Jaouad • The Book of Alchemy
“It’s not just you prompting the LLM, but also the LLM as a prompt reversibly triggers your imagination and creativity…
Again, the role of the LLM here, in Stanley’s view, is largely to present you with a palette of options.
So what’s happening in between, then? What’s happening while you’re redoing it over and over again, prompting the LLMs and
... See moreYuk 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
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As a Service / Are.na
blank-as-a-service.are.naWhen 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.
Rehash: A Web Podcast • Non-Financial Use Cases for Tokens w/David Phelps | S3 E2
I work best from a place of zero ego and zero hope. I call this state being “lower than a worm.” A feeling that nothing will ever come of what I’m working on is crucial. A feeling of my smallness in relation to the world. I gotta be below the dirt. I am nothing and nobody. That frees me up. Who cares what a worm thinks, you know?
Lincoln Michel • Processing: How Erin Somers Wrote The Ten Year Affair
I post this quote from Peter Block's book "Community" every year. It doesn't get much attention because it's not built for social media: it's thick.
But there really isn't a better explanation of the "why" behind the work I do, and its encouragement for communities to move away from blame, apathy, and entitlement and towards possibility,
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