Community with Ramses Oudt // Metamuse podcast episode 62

0:00 - Brian: “What I look for when I’m hiring designers, or what is the experience of encountering someone on the internet is”…“proof of curiosity.” Is this person curious about the world to an extent that they take action on that curiosity? One simple example is when you learn about something, and you tweet about it and share it.

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I think this kind of linear thinking about scaling communities that I just highlighted misses a critical insight, that growing communities behave less like an infinitely scalable software product and more like a multicellular, living organism. If the community doesn’t grow in the right places, in the right ways, it’s easy for the community to colla... See more

Let’s consider that formula: community knowledge + solidarity networks + folklore. The web3 communities I’m in have powerful ideologies; these are spaces with shared perspectives and rituals that have emerged over a compressed period of time. This manner of collective world-building in and around projects (in the best possible way, I wouldn’t use t... See more