Protocol Fiction, Desire, and Belief
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Protocol Fiction, Desire, and Belief
Decentralization & Desire: A web3 Cultural Blueprint
Web3 Needs More Empathetic Tech
In a highly decentralized system, these operations invert such that the community finds product solutions themselves: "market-product fit." Cryptoeconomic protocols are market frameworks looking for potential product applications. The work of exploring parallel narratives, discovering emergent use cases, and testing solutions is distributed among m... See more
otherinter.net • Headless Brands
Secret Societies, Network States, Burning Man, Zuzalu, and More: Thoughts on New Political Communities
Matt Prewittradicalxchange.org
Good protocols do not just treat solutions to problems as works-in-progress, with bugs and imperfections to be worked out over the long term, but the specifications of the problems as works-in-progress as well. Good protocols learn, grow, and mature in ways that catalyze thoughtful stewardship and sustained generativity. Bad protocols on the other
... See moreVenkatesh Rao • The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols
A protocol is a relatively simple and codified set of behaviors that, when adopted by a sufficient number of participants (human and/or artificial) in a situation, reliably leads to good-enough outcomes for all.