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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with (and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse).

Christopher Alexander was known for his theories on bringing humanity into architecture. He believed everyone possessed the ability to create and design a space that he called alive. His book, Pattern language, is based on core belief that people should design their own communities. Observation is that some of the best places in the world were

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The problem remains: we are still producing an unbearable volume of information; we still need some way to sort through it. The regime of the hipster was an inefficient way of sorting it; it died. The regime of the nerd was an overefficient way of sorting it; it is dying. The last remaining option is mal d’archive , the Kang solution: you ease the... See more

But to be human is not to have answers. It is to have questions—and to live with them. The machines can’t do that for us. Not now, not ever.

And so, at last, we can return—seriously, earnestly—to the reinvention of the humanities, and of humanistic education itself. We can return to what was always the heart of the matter—the lived experience of... See more

Saying you’re building DAO tooling is like saying you’re building tools for corporations. It doesn’t really mean anything. There are protocol DAOs, social DAOs, NFT collector DAOs, service DAOs, grant DAOs, and more.  So the first step in building DAO tooling is to clearly define the target audience.

I don't see it that way: Progress has indeed been fast lately. In a few years I will not be writing a snarky remark about GPT-N not being used for much because by then it will be obvious that there are at least a handful of legitimately useful applications for LLMs in broad use. At the same time, in a few years I do expect some people that today

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