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From these case studies, I describe an approach that focuses on building an “atomic network”—that is, the smallest possible network that is stable and can grow on its own.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
public interest software.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
The technology of the Information Age makes it possible to create assets that are outside the reach of many forms of coercion. This new asymmetry between protection and extortion rests upon a fundamental truth of mathematics. It is easier to multiply than to divide.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
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These are all highly contestable statements.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Or electrical engineer Claude Shannon, who launched the Information Age thanks to a philosophy course he took to fulfill a requirement at the University of Michigan. In it, he was exposed to the work of self-taught nineteenth-century English logician George Boole, who assigned a value of 1 to true statements and 0 to false statements and showed tha
... See more(Journalist) David Epstein • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Adding a bitcoin mining rig to a renewables project provides a permanent buyer of otherwise wasted electricity, lowering the volatility of cash flows of renewables projects, which in turn lowers their cost of capital, ensures more get financed and on better terms, and drives down the deflation curve even faster given Wright’s Law indicates a strong
... See moreSacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Don’t oversqueeze dots.