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For the past five months, I've been building an ambassador program for web3 developers with one of the most brilliant and kind minds I've ever met in the space. The process has been anything but easy and on a daily basis, our team navigates a plethora of uncertainties that are simply the norm in our ecosystem, along with a few random anomalies that are not. With the support of our team and colleagues, we are kicking off the first cohort of this program next week and our mission for ...
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CStreetBuilding In Community
For the past five months, I've been building an ambassador program for web3 developers with one of the most brilliant and kind minds I've ever met in the space. The process has been anything but easy and on a daily basis, our team navigates a plethora of uncertainties that are simply the norm in our ecosystem, along with a few random anomalies that are not. With the support of our team and colleagues, we are kicking off the first cohort of this program next week and our mission for ...
CStreetThe Center Will Not Hold
JournoDAO attended the ONA23 conference last week to talk about two core missions of our DAO; 1) how decentralization and blockchain can help protect the industry from the waves of AI disinformation filling our timelines and 2) how do we restore journalism at the local level using decentralized technology stacks to protect our communities from the perilous impacts of news deserts. After having just spent the summer in Paris, post ETHCC and ETHGlobal Paris, and being accustomed to ETH conferen...
CStreetWaking Up In a Post Roe World
For years, we’ve known of the attempt to roll back the clock on rights for anyone not male and white in this country. The strategy used by a radical, far-right political machine was not, nor has it ever been private. All laid bare for those with open eyes to see, process and watch in horror as it unfolds. For four decades. And yet many of us were called conspiratorial, alarmist, dramatic or just wrong. We were not. We were right. We always have been.Who are WE? WE are the marginalized, becaus...
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The Sacred Wisdom OnChain Project is a capstone project I’ve created to implement in the fall for my degree-- in yoga studies. I get the irony here, but I wanted to share my academic proposal here on Mirror to begin a dialogue that has been surfacing almost daily. Grab a coffee and get to reading….
My core question is as follows:
How can decentralized blockchain technology be utilized to protect, archive and support the translations and teachings from wisdom traditions so current and future generations can freely access this knowledge as a public good, while also providing support for scholars and source communities through the monetary and governance mechanisms inherent in blockchain technology?
The Sacred Wisdom project contains three core premises that I will explore and work towards the implementation of during my capstone project. The first premise is protecting wisdom tradition translations and teachings from the threat of market enclosures, commodification, disinformation and authoritarian political structures through decentralization of information. The second premise explores archiving wisdom tradition teachings so future generations can access the knowledge with no centralized gatekeepers or market forces controlling access. And lastly, I will explore supporting scholars and source communities through the creation of decentralized organizational structures that provide the technical and autonomous mechanisms to build and support communities through virtual gathering places and alternative economic modalities without middle men or gatekeepers in a global container accessible to all and built under the premise of the Gift Economy.
Why this matters...to me.
As a voracious consumer of information and seeker of knowledge, I strongly believe that the vital information of our ancient wisdom traditions should be protected and archived in a manner that allows free access to information for current and future generations. As a former journalist, I believe free access to information is vital to the health of our society and those of us with the technical skills and vision should deploy such insights to ensure that information is protected from the threat of authoritarian regimes and rogue political actors seeking to homogenize the public's spiritual beliefs into a radical and homogeneous religious container. As we witnessed during the Trump administration, this demographic of political actors are also threatened by information that encourages compassion, collective action and lifestyles that reject the core tenants of consumption-based corporate capitalism.
I had the great fortune to acquire much of my blockchain education from a small hacker community who freely shared their technical wisdom with me through the ethos of the Gift Economy. Most hackers philosophically believe in creating technology for the greater good, that their creations should never enter the marketplace, and they view centralization as a fundamental threat to the evolution of technology and society at large. That belief is also a foundational premise of the current blockchain technology movement and I believe strongly in embracing their approach and applying it to the academic community in a way that supports scholarship and protects vital wisdom from market enclosure and political forces. My heart breaks to see so many of my friends, who are professors at universities around the country, struggling to pay their bills and fighting for the resources to pursue their scholarship because their institutions funnel money to athletics and commercially funded scientific work.
Our society faces a multitude of threats to the free flow of information, from corporate control of centralized servers housing vital information for the advancement of society to the control of those servers by authoritarian regimes or rogue political actors. Additional threats exist from market enclosures of the academic commons and the lack of monetary support for scholars documenting the priceless knowledge from wisdom traditions.
I believe we, as academics and protectors of such priceless wisdom, can and should deploy emerging blockchain technologies to protect, archive and support the decentralization of translations and teachings from wisdom traditions. By leveraging blockchain technologies, we can ensure that the knowledge possessed in wisdom traditions will survive the chaotic political times we are living through and will be accessible to future generations.
Monetary support for both scholars and source communities can also be fostered through the alternative economic modalities inherent in this technology, allowing future academic projects to receive funding free from market enclosure commitments or commodification, creating a virtual community governed through autonomous blockchain voting mechanisms and giving source communities the option to raise funds through their wisdom and art to support their own communities.
I’ll be exploring this concept much deeper this fall and will writing an academic paper about the topic and hopefully implementing some aspects of the project to explore proof of concept and create a framework to be applied by scholars and those working with, producing or sharing vital information as a public good.
Please follow my progress here on Mirror, or on the Twitters and stay in the loop. You can also support the project by collecting any of my NFTs or specific Sacred Wisdom NFTs from the collection minted on Foundation to support this project. Click here to collect.
You can also support the project by leaving a tip with the split below or by collecting one of the editions below as well. NFT sales will help support the scholarship, research and implementation necessary to bring this to life.
split://0xf5B6C4348B4f110766343B8Bf63003F1AC85FE4e
edition://0x1dFdc772BFf0Ca2143f34bC851d0838997AE4465?editionId=0
The Sacred Wisdom OnChain Project is a capstone project I’ve created to implement in the fall for my degree-- in yoga studies. I get the irony here, but I wanted to share my academic proposal here on Mirror to begin a dialogue that has been surfacing almost daily. Grab a coffee and get to reading….
My core question is as follows:
How can decentralized blockchain technology be utilized to protect, archive and support the translations and teachings from wisdom traditions so current and future generations can freely access this knowledge as a public good, while also providing support for scholars and source communities through the monetary and governance mechanisms inherent in blockchain technology?
The Sacred Wisdom project contains three core premises that I will explore and work towards the implementation of during my capstone project. The first premise is protecting wisdom tradition translations and teachings from the threat of market enclosures, commodification, disinformation and authoritarian political structures through decentralization of information. The second premise explores archiving wisdom tradition teachings so future generations can access the knowledge with no centralized gatekeepers or market forces controlling access. And lastly, I will explore supporting scholars and source communities through the creation of decentralized organizational structures that provide the technical and autonomous mechanisms to build and support communities through virtual gathering places and alternative economic modalities without middle men or gatekeepers in a global container accessible to all and built under the premise of the Gift Economy.
Why this matters...to me.
As a voracious consumer of information and seeker of knowledge, I strongly believe that the vital information of our ancient wisdom traditions should be protected and archived in a manner that allows free access to information for current and future generations. As a former journalist, I believe free access to information is vital to the health of our society and those of us with the technical skills and vision should deploy such insights to ensure that information is protected from the threat of authoritarian regimes and rogue political actors seeking to homogenize the public's spiritual beliefs into a radical and homogeneous religious container. As we witnessed during the Trump administration, this demographic of political actors are also threatened by information that encourages compassion, collective action and lifestyles that reject the core tenants of consumption-based corporate capitalism.
I had the great fortune to acquire much of my blockchain education from a small hacker community who freely shared their technical wisdom with me through the ethos of the Gift Economy. Most hackers philosophically believe in creating technology for the greater good, that their creations should never enter the marketplace, and they view centralization as a fundamental threat to the evolution of technology and society at large. That belief is also a foundational premise of the current blockchain technology movement and I believe strongly in embracing their approach and applying it to the academic community in a way that supports scholarship and protects vital wisdom from market enclosure and political forces. My heart breaks to see so many of my friends, who are professors at universities around the country, struggling to pay their bills and fighting for the resources to pursue their scholarship because their institutions funnel money to athletics and commercially funded scientific work.
Our society faces a multitude of threats to the free flow of information, from corporate control of centralized servers housing vital information for the advancement of society to the control of those servers by authoritarian regimes or rogue political actors. Additional threats exist from market enclosures of the academic commons and the lack of monetary support for scholars documenting the priceless knowledge from wisdom traditions.
I believe we, as academics and protectors of such priceless wisdom, can and should deploy emerging blockchain technologies to protect, archive and support the decentralization of translations and teachings from wisdom traditions. By leveraging blockchain technologies, we can ensure that the knowledge possessed in wisdom traditions will survive the chaotic political times we are living through and will be accessible to future generations.
Monetary support for both scholars and source communities can also be fostered through the alternative economic modalities inherent in this technology, allowing future academic projects to receive funding free from market enclosure commitments or commodification, creating a virtual community governed through autonomous blockchain voting mechanisms and giving source communities the option to raise funds through their wisdom and art to support their own communities.
I’ll be exploring this concept much deeper this fall and will writing an academic paper about the topic and hopefully implementing some aspects of the project to explore proof of concept and create a framework to be applied by scholars and those working with, producing or sharing vital information as a public good.
Please follow my progress here on Mirror, or on the Twitters and stay in the loop. You can also support the project by collecting any of my NFTs or specific Sacred Wisdom NFTs from the collection minted on Foundation to support this project. Click here to collect.
You can also support the project by leaving a tip with the split below or by collecting one of the editions below as well. NFT sales will help support the scholarship, research and implementation necessary to bring this to life.
split://0xf5B6C4348B4f110766343B8Bf63003F1AC85FE4e
edition://0x1dFdc772BFf0Ca2143f34bC851d0838997AE4465?editionId=0
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