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With Mars as a thought vehicle, we can start to imagine, “Okay, what will we put up there?”, and we can think outside of the systems that really hinder our thinking on Earth. We'll go into a whole set of design principles that we can use for actually building things there. But, ultimately, it's really important to just think beyond our current... See more

Not DJ Kool Herc. Not The Sugarhill Gang. Not Crazy Legs. Not even Cornbread. The true father of hip-hop is Moses. The tyrannical, mercilessly efficient head of several New York City public works organizations, Robert Moses, did more in his fifty-year tenure to shape the physical and cultural conditions required for hip-hop’s birth than any other... See more

Digital Infrastructure: Our entire system of mass communication is privatized and optimized for profit. Elon was able to buy Twitter! The billionaires own the papers! Meta owns Instagram and Facebook! The way we communicate is an addiction because it has to be - communication is a commodity. That’s how money is made. We are a nation of addicts,... See more

There are only two factors that limit the potential for interesting communities to arise: the availability of people searching for new communities to join, and the ability for those people to gather and do interesting things together. Both of these things are on the rise.

This century is where enlightenment and romanticism must blend. A great idea that is born out of the mind and then goes through the soul — there is no doubt that the outcome is marvelous. If this idea is true, fair, beautiful, there’s no doubt that it is also a good idea. I think this applies to everything.

There 2 ways your brain remembers things: One is countless repetition. And the other is if the event is highly emotional. This is science. This is why you are able to remember your first kiss so well, even though that moment occurred only once. This is the reason why you're able to remember that one time you almost died. It's also the reason why... See more