Severin Matusek
- The internet is not only a network of cables, servers, and computers. It is an environment that shapes and is shaped by its inhabitants and their use.
from Mindy Seu
- First I’d argue that the digital world and the physical world are already deeply interconnected and getting more so everyday. The internet is a global brain that increasingly orchestrates the global body. One of the myths around Jetsons-like robots is that automation happens visibly, with a 1:1 correspondence between the thing replaced and the thin... See more
from Words With Web 3’s King: An Interview With Chris Dixon by Chris Dixon
- To understand the networked self, we must first understand the self, which is a ceaseless endeavor. The ultimate problem of the Internet might stem not from the discrete technology but from the Frankensteinian way in which humanity’s invention has exceeded our own capacities.
from How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines by Kyle Chayka
- In its most popular use, worldbuilding refers to a practice derived from fantasy or science fiction, where systems, characters, and mechanics assemble to satisfy the expectation that a fictional world should be convincing and complete. More broadly, it should be stated, worldbuilding is simply part of writing fiction: Sally Rooney does worldbuildin... See more
from Without World - The White Review
- If we want people to make different decisions is to challenge people what to think of the self. Who are you, what are all the dimensions of you? It’s in those dimensions that you challenge what you care about. That person has a different sense of what is right and what is wrong.
from 36. Re-bundling the creator economy + labels in web3 w/ Yancey Strickler by Yancey Strickler
- Metaphors mixing mind with machine proliferate across pop psychology—not least in subliminal fan communities, where the videos are seen as programmes that can delete, rewrite, and generate new “programming.” That a behaviour can be ‘soft-’ or ‘hard-coded’ is useful shorthand for nurture and nature—programming from parents, society, and environment ... See more
from She's Evil, Most Definitely Subliminal – ZORA ZINE
- About his approach to crypto Got into crypto when he understood that it is an opportunity to define values numerically, to express them in a new medium, to build systems that respond to an input and desired output beyond just the growth rate or financial take of a system.
from 36. Re-bundling the creator economy + labels in web3 w/ Yancey Strickler by Yancey Strickler
- In fact, if I sense that an artist is creating, saying or doing things just to win public approval, or to yield to the demands of the market, well, that’s when I tend to turn away.
from Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #280 - I am finding your religious turn and proselytising difficult. How do you reconcile your faith with the church’s devastating...
- Personal storyAfter leaving Kickstarter started Yancey started to investigate the system of valueWhich led him to publish a book called This Could be Our Future.
from 36. Re-bundling the creator economy + labels in web3 w/ Yancey Strickler by Yancey Strickler