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The key transformation that needs to occur is from a logic of open source development to a more complex logic of commons-based governance.

Alek Tarkowski • Priorities to Make the Fediverse Sustainable | TechPolicy.Press

Shirky, Clay. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. New York: Penguin Press, 2008. Simonton, Dean Keith. Creativity in

Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From

As Jeremy Keith enjoys pointing out, Medium is Ev’s blog and offers RSS feeds and reverse-chronological listings for each guest author.

Baldur Bjarnason • The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was

Money is an information system that records and updates who has done work that is valued by others, such that credit can be universalized and socially scaled.

Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism

Inexpensive and user-friendly digital tools for manipulating text, images and sounds — think Photoshop or GarageBand — have dramatically broadened access to the means of cultural production and blurred the lines between amateurs and professionals. But the question is not just how many people engage in cultural production — it’s how people engage.

ROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents

One reason this is personally interesting to me is that I sense a comparable network happening here at Substack, where a huge amount of the value created is flowing to the creators. Now, it's true Substack authors don't participate in the enterprise value of Substack, Inc, but theoretically that could be part of the package through more traditional... See more

Chris Dixon • "Let's Run The Experiment": A conversation with Chris Dixon about DAOs and the future of organizations online

how our economy might reorient itself around individual creators and the platforms upon which they build.

Nadia Eghbal • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

To counter information siloing, the organizers introduced smaller “progress prizes” awarded bi-monthly that required participants to publish their code or research open source, enriching the entire community's shared knowledge base.

Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

Patrick: I think the macro thing to bear in mind with a lot of culture stuff is that a rapidly scaling human organization is an unnatural thing. The vast majority of human organizations that we have experience with, be it the school, the family, the university, the local community, the church, whatever, these are not organizations that scale really