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Designing and navigating various contextual arrangements with an enigmatic sense of hope. #wayfinder
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57. Chaos + co-creation in web3 w/ LDF + Reka.eth
open.spotify.comWeb 3.0 and Co-Creation
TLDR is internet-speak for “Too long, didn’t read.” It’s one of the consequences of too much to choose from, combined with a lazy quest for convenience. It’s a checklist mindset. And all we get after we finish a checklist is a bunch of checked boxes, not real understanding.
Seth Godin • The Cliffs Notes paradox
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
The most valuable resource isn't algorithms, compute, or even just data. It's context.
Tina He • Context is all you need
By handing the reins of discovery to the wisdom of instinct and following the path of maximal interestingness, we can find the kinds of unexpected discoveries that yield compression progress. This, though is the paradox of creativity: your work is done when it looks so simple that the consumer thinks they could’ve done it, which means they won’t appreciate how hard you worked.
to make the thing is to make its impact, its memory, the product of its extended use, its legacy, and its language. "Good Design", such that it might exist, is the art of building this phantom value in the future from the most minimal physical compromise in the present.
ཊལབསརངཧtwitter.comdesign and
Science makes models of things so we can understand how they work. Art makes models of things so we can understand how we work. - "What Art Does" by Brian Eno and Bette A
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... See more
Kevin Slavin • Design as Participation
“Imagination is often referred to as a sort of solo activity — authors, artists — but what we’ve found is really key to creativity is that it’s a collective imagination process. It’s the magic of creating together.”