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You can kind of imagine the world getting split into two: jobs that have a very clear set of next steps—working in the military, or working at Starbucks, or working as a manager in a large company, clear jobs—and then you got opaque jobs. And I think starting a company is an incredibly opaque job—it's very unclear what to do next. It's very... See more

Micro-economies have a shared mission, are pre-product and have little to no revenue. They’re in the earliest stages of hiring and resemble structures like co-ops or committees.

They are what philosopher Harry Frankfurt would call “bullshitters.” Those that are giving advice for the sake of giving advice, without any regard as to how it is actually implemented, if it can even be implemented at all. “It’s not important to [the bullshitter] what the world really is like,” he says in a short video documentary about the... See more

Anyone who predicts the death of cities has already met their spouse.

Engelbart’s vision, from the beginning, was collaborative. His vision was people working together in a shared intellectual space. His entire system was designed around that intent.

What if, instead of relying on an fallible centralized authority to assure us of who has what, we rely on distributed authority that isn’t controlled by a single party? What if our money has value, not because we trust the power of a government to back it, but because we trust the power of math?

What possibilities for action does this technology foreclose? Is it good that these actions are no longer possible?

Facebook was the arbiter of importance and was unabashedly social. Its prescriptions were based on the preference for personally relevant material over material with global relevance.