Timour Kosters

Alpha: Stay lean while you de-risk your biggest hurdle.

Beta: Test, test, test — but push to go faster.

Although my work as a nonduality teacher is aligned with the shentong view, I do not speak of fundamental consciousness as a metaphysical reality. I cannot claim to know what it is. Buddhists often speak of it as the nature of the mind, while many Hindu philosophers have asserted that it is the nature of the universe. Still others claim that we

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How to approach decentralization for a tradco - First map the governance surface: - Who are all stakeholders, what are their authorities - Then figure out what is desired state. - Then doing one authority delegation at a time, and then building meta process around assessing, choosing, and decentralizing specific authorities in the community.

What role will humans have in this future? - Perhaps when conflict arises - There will be 80/20 for all types of work - 80% of governance decisions will be automated. These will be the non-controversial decisions - We will each likely have personal AIs that represent us in each of the communities that we are a part of - 20% of decisions will get... See more

What do we mean by “decentralization,” anyway? It’s a capacious term, and in the past few years it’s been tossed around more freely than ever. Flocks of birds, free-market economies, cities, peer-to-peer computer networks: these are all considered examples of decentralization. Yet so, too, in other contexts, are the American public-school system

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Early on, the way we approached our go-to-market was opposite of what most companies do, which is start with a super niche audience, find them, target them and expand to new markets

We started completely horizontal with a blank-slate product, and we got more and more narrow with our focus on landing customers over time. We started seeing organic

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AI is a long-term vision for Hats - For now they’re more focused on what is a role for a dao - Hats is narrowly focused on: what does a dao contributor need to do great work. - Eg - based on your hat, you should be able to parse the discord and see the relevant info to help you do your work

If everyone owns a slice of American value creation, everyone will want America to do better: collective equity in innovation and in the success of the country will align our incentives. The new social contract will be a floor for everyone in exchange for a ceiling for no one, and a shared belief that technology can and must deliver a virtuous... See more