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1/ The good news: the METAVERSE is exciting but NOT for the reasons most people are talking about. The bad news: odds are the 'Metaverse' will be us

Whether it is through a VR headset, the manipulation of projectors, or clever set design, immersion fulfills our desire for escapism, instantly transp

Hanlon’s Razor is a useful mental model which can be best summarized as: ‘Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by negle

We should all want to cultivate a thirty second mind that can absorb the essence of a problem and come up with insights based on deep fluency with how

Towards a Practice of Token Engineering

But there’s two parts to what I said about moving a step at a time. One, that it’s towards what I’m drawn to. At that point in time, with the informat

They are more like the rules of the product, conscious choices towards a desired behavioral end.

Along those lines, I believe that mechanics design is a distinct discipline separate from both interface design and product management. I believe it d

One thing that might surprise you about dominance is how companies get it. You might think it comes from rapacious win-at-all costs business practices

There’s this cool idea in software that you “ship your org chart” called Conway’s law: “Organizations, who design systems, are constrained to produce

What really broke down in Google’s original vision is the incentive system they were building towards. There is a very specific subset of information

PEOPLE IN SYSTEMS DO NOT DO WHAT THE SYSTEM SAYS THEY ARE DOING. University professors chase grants, not student enlightenment. VCs nurture personal b

By yielding a generational wealth creation opportunity that was a strange hybrid of a lottery jackpot and self-made fortune, crypto created an ideolog

For example, it was 30 years after the invention of film that someone first tried telling stories with it — before that, film was mainly used as a dem

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How do you explain the web to people who have never used it? You make it as simple and as accessible as possible.

DeFi, dApps and DAOs: The Key Differences

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Decentralized investor communities gain traction in biotech

The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine

My job is helping people who are building the future understand the cultural and emotional systems shaping it and right now, the problem is we are sti

Minimize your surface area. Don’t click, don’t share data and don’t feed the algorithm. Find safer, under the radar places for genuine exchange.

When extraction becomes this pervasive, people opt out. They go dark and build walls around what matters to them. And this is already happening. You c

Ambient extraction is different. It’s a level of vulnerability and theft that registers more emotionally and psychically than it does economically, an

A Political History of DAOs

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That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rathe

Traumatisation is most usually presented as anunassailable, concrete fact, and this is where I need to be respectful. If someone brings a firmconvicti

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