Timour Kosters

A focus on ‘missing middle’ housing: The plans feature housing that is fairly high density but not high rise — a combination of "row houses" between 2-4 stories high, and apartment buildings going up to 8 stories. This is the type of neighborhood that makes up the most beloved places in the world. Places like Amsterdam, Venice, Santa Monica, Lake... See more

Common mistakes or roadblocks with prog decentralization - Early team finds it hard to part with excess authority. Not necessarily for bad reasons. Taking hands off wheel generates fear - Not finding the right people for the dao. DAOs can be big, and they don’t have enough good people to do everything

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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• What was the aha moment for Scott with crypto?
  
  
  • Scott was aware of crypto early, but very skeptical. Saw that everyone was trying to decentralize just for the sake of it. But decentralization has costs. Centralized entities are often more effective in coordinating interaction.
  
  
  • His opinion started to change with examples of use-cases where tech was

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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

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.

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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Perhaps no use of AI is more visible to more people than TikTok’s For You Page. They have pioneered using AI to create incredible recommendations.

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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