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Blockchains are multiplayer.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
In economics the particles, that is, agents, are endowed with some kind of foresight. Their image of the future affects the present.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
David Epstein from Range Widely - Rewriting Your Personal Narrative for Growth
David Epsteinnewsletterss.com
April 2020
Renee DiResta • Invisible Rulers
Archaeologists can excavate a sunken ship in Denmark and determine that it was built in Ireland. Analysis of ancient DNA can make reliable sex determinations of the dead, tease out their family relationships, and even reveal the colour of their eyes and hair; it also makes possible the wider tracking of migrations and larger demographic change.
Neil Price • The Children of Ash and Elm
It traditionally assumed that firms were independent, and so changes would be independent, and so their sizes and aggregate effects would be distributed normally.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
the Thousand Ancient Genomes project
Alice Roberts • Ancestors
You need stocks to create flows, and you need flows to replenish stocks.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
"Let's Run The Experiment": A conversation with Chris Dixon about DAOs and the future of organizations online
Steven Johnsonadjacentpossible.substack.com