Foundation Architecting

When transactions can be brokered by AI, a company’s mission and culture—if genuine—become its final differentiators. As tasks lose their distinctiveness, only the deep resonance of an organization’s ethos can hold human attention.

I've witnessed this countless times. It's a huge anathema to bring up to founders looking for a quick way to build a community the fact that... humans have intrinsic motivation, and if you slap money on it, you might simply crowd that one out.

Take decentralized networks, which promised to shift power from tech giants back to users. The vision was beautiful: creators and contributors would finally capture the value they generate. But many crypto networks revealed how quickly noble intentions can unravel. What started as a grassroots movement to build community-owned wireless networks dev... See more

The ingredients of ‘good’ curation

I think great curation comes down to five key elements that span the processes of searching, selection and contextualizing:

1. Preservation: Caring for, reviving or resurfacing things that might otherwise be lost or forgotten in archives or streams.


2. Connection: Inspiring moments of surprise –, “I didn’t think of that

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