The direct education experience is really, really hard to scale. Learning happens best on a local level with one-on-one instruction. Apprenticeships and tutors have earned a place in the system, but it’s a lot easier to scale technology than people.

Today, most paid communities live on the outskirts of existing social platforms. But as they become normalized, paid communities are becoming a viable business model for smaller-scale social networks aiming to be both profitable and socially sustainable.

Because of this, in the future, we might see things like:

Mimicking Bowie Bonds seems to be the most straightforward path, but really only works under a narrow set of circumstances.

So all in all, it seems like the local level of government is a very undervalued one. And given that criticism of existing smart city initiatives often heavily focuses on concerns around centralized governance, lack of transparency and data privacy, blockchain and cryptographic technologies seem like a promising key ingredient for a more open and p... See more

Serendipitous use of the internet is slowly going extinct as we replace link-hopping with the algorithmic-feed. Ranked results and recommendations have become the dominant mode of exploring information online.

These things tend to be generational; they’re reactionary; and they’re usually organized around a really compelling villain. Because we always seem to react against the unintended consequences, excesses, and blind spots of the previous generation, the zeitgeist is constantly changing. That means there’s always going to be an opening for innovators ... See more

HR/organization -> Instead of just one model of modern HR/perf management/org building you can have a wide range of structures to get people to work together and be incentivized to do so.

“a DAO is like a subreddit w/ a bank account and governance mechanisms” @awrigh01