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2. Distributing ownership and influence outside an organization
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • After Crypto
FROM CYPHERPUNKS TO WEB3:
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • A Political History of DAOs
It’s about how it’s critical to have people in your life who love you and see you when you’re fun and sparkly and on top of the world, but also love you when you’re stagnant and petulant and self-sabotaging and letting them down. It’s about how that kind of love makes you believe in other kinds of love. It’s about how the essential texture of life ... See more
The Friendship Theory of Everything
3. Permanent agnostic archiving
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • After Crypto
Communities like Friends with Benefits allow owners to access exclusive social communities and cultural events. A core premise here is ownership satisfying a need for social belonging and community.
Variant Fund • Tokens Are Products – Variant
1. The decline of platform lock-in: The blessing (for the company) and curse (for the customer) of most Web2 businesses is lock-in — your most important data stays on the platform where you created it.
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • After Crypto
A PRE-HISTORY OF THE CYPHERPUNKS:
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • A Political History of DAOs
But I guess I’m a little blurry on the details. Friends With Benefits has a manifesto where they describe themselves as an organization of “creators, rebels, artists, thinkers, and doers.” That sounds great! (I would like to be all those things, though maybe I wouldn’t say it out loud if I was.) And there’s an admirable statement of principles that... See more