Last night we streamed the first in a six-part video series examining the business model of We Work (data analytics) and how Adam Neumann’s new venture in the rental “experience” market is likely to intersect with a16z’s Web3 investment strategy. Future installments will feature discussions with Leo Saraceno, Lynn Davenport, Cliff Gomes, and Brandi Hartley. […]

Artificial intelligence needs “diversity.” Homogeneity won’t catalyze ecstatic “emergence.” But the diversity must be managed, that darn progressive “social efficiency” again. For that we need diversity dashboards, ostensibly for administering equity standards, but in reality used to to tag, track, and guide agents on the game board and direct the state of play. When I […]

Jeff Yass and his wife Janine, the Club of Growth, the Cato Institute are the ones setting up the mechanics of the “free market” game the masses are expected to play, ostensibly to pursue some imagined evolutionary imperative towards “progress” as a networked super-organism guided by effective altruism and collective self sacrifice. The vast majority […]

This week someone brought Naomi Wolf’s Sub Stack post, “Have the Ancient Gods Returned?,” to my attention. The narrative presented ran counter to my understanding of how we arrived at this point in history. After reading it, I felt like I needed to talk it out, and I’m grateful that my friend Cliff Gomes offered […]

This is part of a series: Part One – Mathematical Theories of Life Part Two – Governance Tokens and Training Kids to Bet Big Part Three – Civic Tech, the Wisdom of Crowds, and Offshore Sandboxes Part Four – The Language of Heartless Charity   There was at least one member of Sam Bankman-Fried’s circle […]

This is the first in what I hope will be a series of conversations where Jason Bosch, Leo Saraceno, and I share some of our research around Web3, the environment, complex systems, community governance, and ritualized behaviors. In this two-hour chat Leo talks about his new article, “Natural Asset Managers – How Decentralized Technology Will […]

Shared with the permission Allison Despathy. Originally published in the Vermont Daily Chronicle. Feature image from this op-ed.   A library without books is an oxymoron” proclaimed a wise elder at the Northern Vermont University, (NVU) Lyndonville campus this past Friday. NVU hosted an open forum after the overwhelmingly negative community response to the Vermont […]

This is the fourth installment in the series “God’s Eye View” Part 1 – Mathematical Theories of Life Part 2 – Intuition, Governance Tokens, and Training Kids to Bet Big Part 3 – Civic Tech, the Wisdom of Crowds and Off-Shore Sandboxes Please bear with me if this post seems a bit more rambling than […]

This week I created a map featuring Jim Rutt’s “Game B.” It included links related to transmedia storytelling and laid out the interests behind the creation of the Game B Initiation animated short. Then, in collaboration with Stephers, I expanded the map to include Rihanna’s halftime performance at the Super Bowl as an example of […]

Feature image from Jordan Peterson video clip “There are some games you don’t get to play unless you’re all in,” 2017. This is just a short post to provide some context around a clip I recently posted to my Youtube channel of an interview Jordan Peterson did a number of years ago. The clip is […]