Timour Kosters
@timourkosters
Investor & builder working in blockchain and ml. Tweeting: @timourxyz
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- The intersection of AI and DAOs - Agent-based modeling is an area of ai research - Similar to governance mapping (which approaches this problem from the realm of economics). - Look at all of the agents in a system and what their capacities and goals are - Use massive simulations to understand the ways that participants could act - Or teach them how... See more
from S3 E6 | DAO Decentralization Thesis & Artificial Intelligence w/nintynick by Rehash: A Web Podcast
But that path to figuring that out wasn’t easy. Here’s Ofstad’s advice for fellow horizontal product builders:
1. Double down on early traction (carefully).
2. Blend the functional and the aspirational.
3. Map out your adoption.
4. Think about pricing as positioning early on.
from Airtable's Path to Product-Market Fit by First Round Capital
I think of product-market fit as the transition moment you feel as a founder when you go from "pushing" your product on people to them "pulling" it out of your hands. But the path to get there is deeply personal. One founder’s journey to product-market fit may look totally different from another’s, and yet both paths could be completely valid — wh
... See morefrom Airtable's Path to Product-Market Fit by First Round Capital
Nonduality has become a popular teaching in the contemporary spiritual field. Although there are varying, conflicting perspectives and practices now offered as nonduality, these teachings also have important elements in common. They all view human beings as intrinsically endowed with the means to understand or even to realize the primary nature of
... See morefrom The Fullness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Awakening by Ph.D Judith Blackstone
Buddhism and Meditation
- 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.
from S3 E6 | DAO Decentralization Thesis & Artificial Intelligence w/nintynick by Rehash: A Web Podcast
- 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."
Crypto Tokens and
- Are DAOs bad at building products? - Product teams need continuity and shared context - We need more tools that can coordinate things like product work.
from S3 E6 | DAO Decentralization Thesis & Artificial Intelligence w/nintynick by Rehash: A Web Podcast
- 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
from Market Design Masterclass ft. Scott Kominers by Sari Azout
- What was the aha moment for Scott with crypto?