Sam Blumenthal

Actions are how agents put resources to work to achieve their goals. All governance over shared resources is conducted via actions.  In the Anticapture framework, actions have four phases.  Propose: delineate the options on the table.  Decide: select the preferred option.  Execute: put the selected option into action.  Evaluate: analyze the impact... See more

According to Gordon, what makes mystery boxes such effective marketing is not only that “people love mystery” — it’s also that the experience of unboxing is so shareable and reproduceable. When someone watches a 5 Surprise unboxing on TikTok, he said, “people then want to experience that for themselves.”

NFTs clearly belong in that tradition. They are digital social objects. Except they are a lot wilder. They don’t live within particular platforms or walled gardens, and aren’t attached to a particular company’s technology or even a specific open standard.