When there is no formal structure in a group of people that interact over any significant amount of time, informal structures appear.

Emacs can be customized to create a beautiful, focused writing environment akin to Ulysses, iA Writer, Bear, or other minimalist markdown editors.

The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman. Links to this note Continuous Organizations Don’t Make Sense for High Growth Startups

Some of the downsides of informal structures in an unstructured group are:

When rules are implicit, only those who know how decisions are made can participate.

An elite individual is an oxymoron. The nature of an elite is membership to a group that exhibits informal influence or control over a larger group.

A problem with Twitter’s advertising business is that it’s product is used for text-based information (tied to the physical world like work or current events).

A commonly cited success story of NFTs is CryptoPunks. They were 10,000 uniquely generated pixel art avatars released on the blockchain for free.

Zettelkasten notes become more useful the better links you make between them.

I came across the idea of a hyperfine village from Lisa Hardy.

Epistemic status: low Translate the check function into a polynomial equation (how do you translate information into a polynomial equation?

Blockchains are transparent ledgers in that anyone with a copy of the blockchain can see every transaction.

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Smart contracts are not recognized as legal contracts and don’t offer the same protections.

Smart contracts that run on a distributed ledger effectively need to work forever to be useful.

NFTs lack the legal and regulatory protection of other forms of property.

Distributed autonomous organzations (DAOs) have more in common with limited liability corporations (LLCs) than C Corporations.

The World Health Organization (WHO) classified B.1.1.529 (omicron), first detected in South Africa, as a COVID-19 variant of concern.

Read An Engineer’s Hype-Free Observations on Web3 (and its Possibilities) from PSL.

List of places that will pay you to move and work remotely:

Using a fingerprint as authentication is trivial to break using a picture of fingerprint, some acetate, and wood glue.

The Millenium Tower in downtown SF is sinking. Before it’s completing, the concrete skyscraper had already sunk 16 inches—building code allows for 6 inches of sinkage.

Values of a community or organization are embedded in every UI decision.

Emacs is not a great text editor in and of itself—it’s a building material for the best text editor you can make for yourself.