Joey DeBruin
@joeydebruin
Helping communities build public knowledge online. Founder @withBackdrop. Past/current product/advisory roles @Benchling @ResearchGate @Forefront__ @SeedClub
Joey DeBruin
The importance of agentic program managers to the success of the ARPA model isn’t surprising or new. The “aha” was that the only way to cut through the paradox of inconsistent process leading to consistent success was that the agentic program leader may be the only thing that’s important to get right; everything else may be cargo-culting.
Ben Reinhardt • The ARPA Model isn't what you think it is
genius is about caring about something more than a reasonable person cares about anything; actualized genius is the product of obsessive patterns of thought, coupled with raw intellectual power, carried through a lifetime.
On Genius, Intellect, and Obsession
Whoever last touched the user gets the credit. This is part of what underwrites Google’s trillion-dollar market cap: the ability to claim that everyone who bought something via a Google search bought that thing because of Google.
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Attribution rules the world (and it'll rule Web3 too)
just as in physical territory, online territory starts out as default autocratic, then only can become democratic through revolt, revolution, and reform.
every.to • Twitter as a City-State
The modern Idea Machine better reflects how people self-organize today. They are decentralized, more closely intertwined with public dialogue, and work symbiotically with a community that anyone can join: many individual nodes operating in a loosely-organized network, instead of a monolithic organization.
Nadia Asparouhova • Idea Machines
And so we arrive at the crux of the argument. DAOs are novelty search engines which can more efficiently explore a search space by enabling many cooperating teams to collect and integrate stepping stones.
Oliver Hunt • DAOs as novelty search engines
The beginning is not with an idea but with the feeling towards an idea. Something you feel but do not know. It makes you anxious and gives you somersaults inside if you try to explain.
If you ignore this feeling it will go away, finding another soul open to its directions.
If you pay too much attention it will also go away, being made nervous by such... See more
If you ignore this feeling it will go away, finding another soul open to its directions.
If you pay too much attention it will also go away, being made nervous by such... See more
- How might we create teams of human and non-human intelligences in the service of better designed systems, products, environments?
David Matthew Jones • Centaurs not Butlers
This is great, though it still acts primarily as a sort of summer camp for entrepreneurship hopefuls, with a tight deadline in which they need to form teams, crack ideas and go to work. Goal orientedness is kind of the name of the game and the grant itself is de minimis .
If the program was ostensibly longer and/or more diverse in its intake this... See more
If the program was ostensibly longer and/or more diverse in its intake this... See more