I’m skeptical about the idea of any one moral improvement, aka One Commandment, as a sufficient pre-condition for a new startup society. The quality of the moral improvement seems key here.
This is a great history of the digital age if technology makes your heart sing — it starts with Babbage & Ada Lovelace, covers the invention of the computer, transistor, microchip, the internet, personal computer, software, and ends with the web up to and including Google. Terrific writing by Walter Isaacson too.
This was a terrific read.
Truly Shakespearean in themes and in the complexity of its main character and the times he lived in, and beautifully written — at close to 600 pages, not theoretically short, yet pacy and gripping throughout (although for reference, I also didn’t think that the movie was too long).
the onchain vs on-chain debate solved:
I just minted Base Day One, celebrating the start of @base.base.eth bringing billions of people onchain.
It’s Onchain Summer.
Ready to dive into some explosive content 💥
Also, I now know why the movie is 3 hours long — the book is almost 600 pages in a microscopic font, followed by 100 pages of notes and bibliography. The guy LIVED.
I wrote about:
Storytelling Infrastructure for Crypto
In the majority of cases where crypto is featured in mainstream entertainment, it’s presented as a means to engage in criminal activity, ransom, and other ventures of the sketchy variety.
https://doomless.substack.com/p/storytelling-infrastructure-for-crypto
I wrote about Scarcity and Abundance in the Age of AI. I take the view that AI will usher in an era of unprecedented material abundance and ask: will this be the end of scarcity? Or is some sort of scarcity essential to the human condition?
Full essay: https://doomless.substack.com/p/scarcity-and-abundance-in-the-age
how utterly odd that billions in market value & the economic fortunes of millions hinge on the correct interpretation of the likes of “possibly”, “sufficiently”, and “may” uttered by a man with not-so-great data
spoiler: crypto fixes this https://i.imgur.com/0T1aEdy.jpg
