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how these systems might be redesigned with the opposite intention of “bridging” the crowd.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
Money balances are private property but the institution of money is a common pool resource, in arguably exactly the same way that a stock of fish might be a common pool resource, even though fish fished by fishermen have clearly become private property.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Findings specific to the planning field
Two related concepts dominate the planning field as it relates to crime prevention— the Broken Windows Theory and Eyes on the Street
Most land use and transportation planners and architects do not fully understand their roles in preventing violence
Land use as a means to prevent violence is understudied and
“toy” models of economies—simple models that are so abstract they bear little resemblance to reality.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
The foundational trade-off of the internet was to cast scarcity, consensus, and identity aside in favor of freedom and openness.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Andy Matuschak
MargaretC • 3 cards
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.