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On the Institutionalization of Progress
We’re all trying to realize our own versions of progress: making personal changes to be better people than we were yesterday, helping friends achieve their dreams, advocating for local causes we believe will make the world a better place. Our constant striving can be simultaneously invigorating and painful, but more than that it’s inexorably human. It emanates from a deep need for meaning and purpose. Yet increasingly we find ourselves in a society where this sense of meaning and progress fee...
On the Institutionalization of Progress
We’re all trying to realize our own versions of progress: making personal changes to be better people than we were yesterday, helping friends achieve their dreams, advocating for local causes we believe will make the world a better place. Our constant striving can be simultaneously invigorating and painful, but more than that it’s inexorably human. It emanates from a deep need for meaning and purpose. Yet increasingly we find ourselves in a society where this sense of meaning and progress fee...
Future History of the Open Internet
In 1996, John Perry Barlow wrote "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace", a poetic proclamation of victory in the battle for a free and open web; an affirmation of what the internet could mean both socially and politically. It was an important piece of internet history that still resonates today. But just a decade later, platforms like Facebook began their rise to power and the vision for an open, semantic web was quickly forgotten in favor of something as benign as an easy to use "...
Future History of the Open Internet
In 1996, John Perry Barlow wrote "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace", a poetic proclamation of victory in the battle for a free and open web; an affirmation of what the internet could mean both socially and politically. It was an important piece of internet history that still resonates today. But just a decade later, platforms like Facebook began their rise to power and the vision for an open, semantic web was quickly forgotten in favor of something as benign as an easy to use "...
On Nowness and Collective Memory
“It is obvious to everybody that the phenomena of the world are evidently irreversible. I mean things happen that do not happen the other way. You drop a cup and it breaks, and you can sit there a long time waiting for the pieces to come together and jump back into your hand. If you watch the waves of the sea breaking, you can stand there and wait for the great moment when the foam collects together, rises up out of the sea, and falls back farther out from the shore — it would be very pretty!...
On Nowness and Collective Memory
“It is obvious to everybody that the phenomena of the world are evidently irreversible. I mean things happen that do not happen the other way. You drop a cup and it breaks, and you can sit there a long time waiting for the pieces to come together and jump back into your hand. If you watch the waves of the sea breaking, you can stand there and wait for the great moment when the foam collects together, rises up out of the sea, and falls back farther out from the shore — it would be very pretty!...
Attention and Intention in the Metaversal Age
Disclaimer: I’m mostly using the term “metaverse” as a placeholder here, but there’s a lot of great work happening around new terminology. It’s almost 2022, the year in which Mark Zuckerberg inevitably becomes king of the metaverse, web3, or whatever else we might like to call it. But the launch of Meta isn’t the only thing that’s happened this year. In fact, perhaps too many things have happened. As we all start to live more of our lives online, and embrace the idea of a shared, expansive, a...
Attention and Intention in the Metaversal Age
Disclaimer: I’m mostly using the term “metaverse” as a placeholder here, but there’s a lot of great work happening around new terminology. It’s almost 2022, the year in which Mark Zuckerberg inevitably becomes king of the metaverse, web3, or whatever else we might like to call it. But the launch of Meta isn’t the only thing that’s happened this year. In fact, perhaps too many things have happened. As we all start to live more of our lives online, and embrace the idea of a shared, expansive, a...
Techno-Optimism in the Age of DAOs
For better or for worse, we live in a world run by institutions, and where power is sticky, and systemic change is hard. But technology over the last 20 years has produced perhaps the biggest shift in power seen in generations, with large social platforms and tools influencing everything from how we share space with one another at an individual level to how we collectively govern ourselves at the level of nation-states. While there’s no doubt that technology can be a powerful force for good, ...
Techno-Optimism in the Age of DAOs
For better or for worse, we live in a world run by institutions, and where power is sticky, and systemic change is hard. But technology over the last 20 years has produced perhaps the biggest shift in power seen in generations, with large social platforms and tools influencing everything from how we share space with one another at an individual level to how we collectively govern ourselves at the level of nation-states. While there’s no doubt that technology can be a powerful force for good, ...
