Jihad Esmail
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I am proposing that it can be helpful to think of Ideas as occupying a space that exists alongside the purely physical world with which we’re all familiar, and that further it is useful to think of this parallel emergent world as extremely real and not at all a metaphor .
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Another key fact is that agency isn't intrinsic to a system, but rather something we ascribe to it. It's a way of describing a system at the level of abstraction that includes goals, obstacles, motivations, etc. If you look too closely (at a sufficiently low level of abstraction), the agency might seem to disappear. A plant, for example, is
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Reflecting on this email from a Sublime believer:
Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,
... See moreKnowledge of the world isn’t the same as experiencing the world. Why does online connection so often seem to lack aliveness, as compared to encounters with the world of flesh-and-blood people, nature, and material things? This paragraph from Karl Ove Knausgaard struck me as eloquent: “It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images
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The unique, killer feature of tokenized communities is the rapid incubation and funding of community-led projects.
Tokenized communities turn members into entrepreneurs, creating a network of projects, products, companies, and sub-communities that are working toward propagating a common meme or mission.
Tokenized communities turn members into entrepreneurs, creating a network of projects, products, companies, and sub-communities that are working toward propagating a common meme or mission.
Jihad Esmail • What Makes Tokenized Communities Valuable? | Forefront
Personal branding isn’t about “look at me”, it’s about “look at this”