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It’s All Connection, It Always Has Been
Like 29,999 (supposedly) other crypto mfers, I went to Denver last week. Things were feeling a bit stale for me online this first half of Q1. Crypto in Jan 2023 was a very different place than crypto in Jan 2022. It’s winter in all interpretations of the word. And even within exploring the chillier side of crypto with fellow operators, covering such boilerplate bear market themes like downsizing, burn rate, runway, focus — vibes were undeniably electric at ETH Denver. https://zora.co/collecti...
It’s All Connection, It Always Has Been
Like 29,999 (supposedly) other crypto mfers, I went to Denver last week. Things were feeling a bit stale for me online this first half of Q1. Crypto in Jan 2023 was a very different place than crypto in Jan 2022. It’s winter in all interpretations of the word. And even within exploring the chillier side of crypto with fellow operators, covering such boilerplate bear market themes like downsizing, burn rate, runway, focus — vibes were undeniably electric at ETH Denver. https://zora.co/collecti...
A Culture of Intimacy: a thesis for building enduring web3 communities
We need more intimacy on the internet, but not the kind of intimacy you might think. As operators in tech, we’re bombarded with oversimplified notions of growth fixated on exponential increases across quantitative metrics. Consider the ubiquity of crude mantras like number go up and up only. This strategy is misdirected within DAOs where the foundational function is community-building. While multi-thousand email waitlists may be beneficial for distribution, high-velocity member growth in earl...
A Culture of Intimacy: a thesis for building enduring web3 communities
We need more intimacy on the internet, but not the kind of intimacy you might think. As operators in tech, we’re bombarded with oversimplified notions of growth fixated on exponential increases across quantitative metrics. Consider the ubiquity of crude mantras like number go up and up only. This strategy is misdirected within DAOs where the foundational function is community-building. While multi-thousand email waitlists may be beneficial for distribution, high-velocity member growth in earl...
Decentralized Media In web3 Is Not What You Think It Is
Let me start by saying what decentralized media is not: decentralized media is not decentralized content creation. steph 🪽🎀 @hhhuuunnn333yyy Decentralized media is not decentralized content creation 79 11:13 AM • Jul 5, 2022 Decentralized content creation is a skeuomorphic mental model that we ported from web2. Web2 social apps already provide the conditions for decentralized content creation. We can look to the meme and narrative network effects enabled by web2 social as a starting place f...
Decentralized Media In web3 Is Not What You Think It Is
Let me start by saying what decentralized media is not: decentralized media is not decentralized content creation. steph 🪽🎀 @hhhuuunnn333yyy Decentralized media is not decentralized content creation 79 11:13 AM • Jul 5, 2022 Decentralized content creation is a skeuomorphic mental model that we ported from web2. Web2 social apps already provide the conditions for decentralized content creation. We can look to the meme and narrative network effects enabled by web2 social as a starting place f...
The Function of Conflict; Conflict as a Tool
This is Body Language: a weekly web3 serial about human-scale interoperability, and the existential tensions that flow from this pursuit. Subscribe.The Function of ConflictThe function of conflict is sense making. It’s our fumbling attempt to determine who we are in the relationship, from the interpersonal to community, organizational to nation-state. One way to perceive the function of conflict is to understand it as a quadratic spectrum of clarity regarding the nature of the relationship, w...
The Function of Conflict; Conflict as a Tool
This is Body Language: a weekly web3 serial about human-scale interoperability, and the existential tensions that flow from this pursuit. Subscribe.The Function of ConflictThe function of conflict is sense making. It’s our fumbling attempt to determine who we are in the relationship, from the interpersonal to community, organizational to nation-state. One way to perceive the function of conflict is to understand it as a quadratic spectrum of clarity regarding the nature of the relationship, w...
Field Recordings: facilitation as a practice in hearing
This is Body Language: a weekly web3 serial about human-scale interoperability, and the existential tensions that flow from this pursuit. Subscribe.New Mental ModelsWe need to reimagine our mental models for working within decentralized teams. This looks like shifting our orientation to our work from one of team management over to team facilitation. The primary function of facilitation is to remove obstacles, to get out of people’s way so that the people in the room can have the conversation ...
Field Recordings: facilitation as a practice in hearing
This is Body Language: a weekly web3 serial about human-scale interoperability, and the existential tensions that flow from this pursuit. Subscribe.New Mental ModelsWe need to reimagine our mental models for working within decentralized teams. This looks like shifting our orientation to our work from one of team management over to team facilitation. The primary function of facilitation is to remove obstacles, to get out of people’s way so that the people in the room can have the conversation ...
