Timour Kosters
@timourkosters
Investor & builder working in blockchain and ml. Tweeting: @timourxyz
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When does it make sense for a tradco to decentralize? - It’s very hard. Need a v good reason. - Why would you want to: - Decentralize governance - Decentralize ownership and upside - Can potentially make product or protocol better because you’re getting direct feedback
Rehash: A Web Podcast • S3 E6 | DAO Decentralization Thesis & Artificial Intelligence w/nintynick
Ursula Le Guin: "They talked, and new worlds were born of their talking. It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on."
SHEIN’s explosion is nothing short of remarkable: SHEIN has grown over 100% every year for eight straight years (!), and its latest private market valuation makes it worth more than Zara and H&M combined.
Rex Woodbury • The TikTokization of Everything
None of these paths is at all appealing to me personally. Instead, the path I’m opting into is one where we evolve with change rather than fight it, while holding onto and manifesting the values that are most core to who we are.
This is the spirit behind Metalabel — an operating system for groups of creative people to release work together. It’s a
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The major consumer applications of AI will lean heavily into sophisticated recommendations that anticipate your wants and desires before you even know them—in the same way that the TikTok For You Page has shown people that they’re gay before they themselves have even arrived at that realization.
Rex Woodbury • The TikTokization of Everything
Brush up on the prior art: “We were intellectually excited about going down that path of this general space of software creation. So we spent a lot of time doing research. It was almost like being on a sabbatical, reading all this prior art of old computing pioneers, like Douglas Engelbart and Bill Atkinson , and even contemporaries, like Bre
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Progressive decentralization is not enough - continuous decentralization is important. Because even in true DAOs, there will always be forces that tend towards centralization
Rehash: A Web Podcast • S3 E6 | DAO Decentralization Thesis & Artificial Intelligence w/nintynick
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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Meditation and Buddhism
Quotes:
“I’m talking to you,” he began, “because the old shit doesn’t work anymore.”
The established patterns for releasing music, going on tour, and putting work into culture, he explained, were no longer relevant. The infrastructure, the audiences, and the money just weren’t there.
“I don’t know where things are going,” he continued, “But I know the
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