We can decentralize the supply chain by: - Setting up participation through product testing bounties, community management, cross-world infrastructure and blockchain development.- Eventually - creating the ultimate “god” protocol brands with full on chain supply.On returning ownership: - Building on-chain tools for designers to register their work ... See more

A New Trustless System:  We want to create a participant-owned system of producing clothes that uses consensus-driven blockchain technology to verify that products are being made ethically.

These buildings aren’t habitable, but we can imagine inhabiting them. These clothes aren’t real, but we can imagine wearing them–in fact, if we accept the term “clothing” in relation to an object we make it real. The metaverse equivalent of the Meat Dress.

“There is something very odd about a society where the most talented people get all tracked toward the same elite colleges, where they end up studying the same small number of subjects and going into the same small number of careers… It’s very limiting for our society as well as for those students.”

 When I left after seven months and three days, one of the lawyers down the hall from me said, ‘You know, I had no idea it was possible to escape from Alcatraz.’ Of course that was not literally true, since all you had to do was go out the front door and not come back. But psychologically this was not what people were capable of. Because their... See more

Strauss did not believe in transparency. He believed that even in the most open-minded societies, many truths were too problematic to be shouted. His contemporary disciples, like Thiel, conceal their words. They hide controversial ideas in esoteric language.

If we design a nomad internet country with intention, we can do two things: Avoid the nomad movement producing colonialism 2.0, wherein a wealthy elite who were lucky enough to be born in the right place move freely while many others are stuck in one location. Create new pathways for refugees, displaced and stateless people to exit their country of... See more

Thiel defines the four quadrants as such:1) Definite Optimism: The future will be better and we know how. 2) Indefinite Optimism: The future will be better and we don’t know how. 3) Definite Pessimism: The future will be worse and we know how. 4) Indefinite Pessimism: The future will be worse and we don’t know how. 

The top colleges have become vocational schools for investment banking and management consulting.