sari
- There are many years of research on the kinds of work that decentralized communities (Wikipedia, etc) do more effectively than centralized ones, and a big issue rn is that many DAOs simply aren't doing that kind of work: - highly modular - fairly objective measures of success
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) and Decentralized Communities
- “Research is a ceremony for building closer relationship with an idea” -Shawn Wilson
- Today, I'm announcing Alexandria, an open-source initiative to embed the internet. To start, we're releasing the embeddings for every research paper on the Arxiv. That's over 4m items, 600m tokens, and 3.07 billion vector dimensions. We're not stopping here. Show more
- Founding influencer is now on par with founding engineer. An influencer with an organic community can identify a problem, pair with a technologist, crowdfund a solution, and continuously communicate progress along the way. The community derisks the process of market discovery.
- if you're working on something weird or unconventional, pls pls pls write abt it in detail while you're doing it. the most deeply unhelpful and cliche-ridden narrator is the one reflecting on the past through success-tinted glasses
- Web3 changes what it means to be a great founder. The successful founders of centralized web2 companies were authoritarian, manipulative, fairly sociopathic. Web3 founders are empaths: they have to collaborate with one other, build community, and earn trust w/ a bigger mission.
what ideas are we missing out on when we can inly tolerate those that can be compressed into bite-sized tweets and TikTok videos.
source: long distance thinking, Simon Sarris
- A phrase I heard recently and found useful: I agree with the idea, but I disagree with the tone. Many ideas get dismissed because they are delivered in a cocky or hostile or dismissive tone—or because of who delivers them. Separate substance from style.