Reading List

The Pyramid Fallacy: Self-Organizing Decentralized Open Systems for Sustainable Collective Action - Karni Lotan Marcus, 2018

The ubiquity of hierarchical structure has resulted in scholars rarely focusing on its possible influence when investigating the motives and processes underlyin...

journals.sagepub.com

medium.com

How to Make Government Less Like the DMV

“You need that sort of annoying, persistent obsession”

www.statecraft.pub

Pace Layers [Framework of the Day]

Technology, culture, media, and randomness.

www.noahbrier.com

Agartha x MOOS - Discovering Utopia

Talking about first-handed experience in various DAOs, Eco Villages, P2P, Network States, Solarpunk communities. Check out slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fVAF1LVwqW0fibgNSu4IZCoMm0evdWjkuS_Uv8Eh7-g/edit?usp=sharing Visit Agartha: https://agartha.one

youtu.be

Provocation-driven development

Many of the foundational computing projects started with a provocation… “Man-Computer Symbiosis” (1960) J.C.R. Licklider’s provocation transforms our vision of computers from calculators to extensions of the self. “Augmenting human intellect” (1962)

subconscious.substack.com

Mochi World

Mochi is a coordination game designed to help decentralized teams stick together. Our motto is to dream big, start small and stick together.

mochi.game

Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought.

As easy to use as a word document or bulleted list, and as powerful for finding, collecting, and connecting related ideas as a graph database. Collaborate with others in real time, or store all your data locally.

roamresearch.com

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