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Product advertising explains the product to me. Brand advertising explains me to me. (via John Bevins)

SCARF – Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, Fairness

This strikes me as suboptimal. Neither the creation nor the consumption of notes should be treated as separate workflows.

Caroline Humphrey, of Cambridge University, concludes in her definitive anthropological work on barter that “no example of a barter economy, pure and simple, has ever been described, let alone the emergence from it of money; all available ethnography suggests there has never been such a thing.”

-The first downside to "Anyone can build anything" is that "anyone" means anyone, and the people to whom decentralized systems are the most attractive are the ones who are banned from other systems, often for good reasons... if you want to get a sense for the typical piece of content enabled by a totally uncensored communications system, check your... See more