weekly Go Flip Yourself

• Internet ate the world; then broke; then some people rallied to fix it; then… we’re lost — disoriented

• what do we collectively even desire?

• at first, you just want to hang out and have fun; then you grow up and have less time for the group chat

• saying you want to change something, and actually changing it are two different jobs

• the New Internet needs a more honest relationship to money

• Are.na is deserving of its unofficial title as golden child of the New Internet

Coming into communion with an object means forming a relationship together.

It hasn’t been easy. The road hasn’t been smooth and the right choices haven’t been obvious.

Mistakes get corrected as you go along, but there aren’t really any handbooks or guideposts when you’re doing original work. Moving at speed in uncharted waters is an incredible experience, but it is also immensely stressful for all the players.

Nine years ago, we really had no idea what we were eventually going to become; even now, we only sort of know. AI development has taken many twists and turns and we expect more in the future.

Superintelligent tools could massively accelerate scientific discovery and innovation well beyond what we are capable of doing on our own, and in turn massively increase abundance and prosperity.