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Welcome to the very first episode of NextMeta - a merge/rebrand of MetaView & Frontiers of Coordination, along with Realizing MetaGame (newsletter) coming next!In this episode of NextMeta, peth sits down with David Phelps, co-founder of JokeRace and a prominent figure in the crypto Twitter space. David's candid and humorous takes shed light on the evolving landscape of Web3.Topics discussed:- David's background- The evolution of DAOs- The "Proto App Thesis"- Challenges with token-based voting- The role of social incentives in retaining users beyond financial incentives- The divide between the crypto-native audience and those who genuinely need decentralized financial solutions- The importance of scalability, UX improvements like embedded funding, and interoperability in Web3 adoption- The Proto-App moat"You lose some moats, but you gain others. And it's quite exciting to think about how that can play out at an application level.""We need to think about the tech and what is morally good. And the angel on our shoulder is basically telling us that we should ignore financial incentives, that the people in the Philippines who need to make money and are like using these protocols to make money are not the people we should appeal to and that we should somehow be above all of this."Mentioned projects and links:JokeRace Eigenlayer The Proto-App Thesis Bello Warpcast Monad Celestia Intro music by https://audionautix.com
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Primavera de Filippi, a legal scholar and researcher, discusses the governance of blockchain technologies and the challenges they pose. She explains the concept of governance by design, which involves embedding governance structures into technological architectures. Primavera also introduces one of her past projects, Plantoids, blockchain-based life forms that replicate and reproduce autonomously.
She highlights the legal questions surrounding these entities and the need for recognition and regulation. Primavera explores the potential of CoordiNations, networks of collectives that mutualize resources and engage in collective action. She emphasizes the importance of fostering cooperation and tackling global problems through decentralized governance.
"A CoordiNation is not a community, a CoordiNation if anything is a community of communities. It's a network of collectives...And so everyone becomes more incentivized to contribute to the whole because they are all intertwined with one another."
In this episode:
- Collaborative economies
- Governance by design
- Plantoids
- Legal recognition and regulation of DAOs
- CoordiNations
The Blockchain and the Law by Primavera de Filippi
Plantoids
DAO Model Law
Coordination
Primavera's CNRS research page
Bergman Klein Center at Harvard
COALA (Coalition of Automated Legal Applications)
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In this episode, TokenBrice discusses the challenges and shortcomings of DAO governance. He emphasizes the concept of governance minimization, where automation and incentivization are preferred over relying on governance which can be twisted to serve individual or external needs for profit.
He talks about shortcomings of plutocratic DAOs but also shares his experience as a member of the GHO Liquidity Committee, raising concerns about the selection process for committee members or delegates - and the prevalence of conflicts of interest in DeFi DAO governance landscape with the rise of DAO politicians that aren’t much different to real world politicians.
On the bright side, he talks about transparency & the ability to track funds as significant improvements to governance in the real world - but stands firmly behind the idea of governance minimization. The episode concludes with the introductions of the DeFi Collective, a nonprofit association supporting growth and resilience of DeFi protocols.
Takeaways
Governance minimization & automation
Pitfalls & conflicts of interests in plutocracy & committees
Professionalization of governance
Conflicts of interest
DAOs bleeding money
Transparency and tracking of funds
The DeFi Collective helping DeFi protocols for free
The DeFi Collective
TokeBrice Website
TokenBrice Twitter
Leaving GHO Committee blog post
Aave Runway dashboard
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In this episode, we're excited to welcome Sero, a key player in MetaGame, whose unique journey from a high school dropout to a tech and Web3 enthusiast offers a fresh perspective on self-learning, autonomy and the future of decentralized systems.
Sero’s story is not just about overcoming traditional educational hurdles but also about finding his path in the dynamic and often challenging world of freelancing & Web3. His experience with various programming languages, his approach to learning, and his transition into MetaGame showcase a blend of determination, skill, and adaptability.
- Sero’s unconventional educational journey and career experiences.
- How the Odin project and COVID-19 led to a breakthrough in learning
- Entry into the world of crypto through a DeFi project
- Sero’s rank in MetaGame and his perspective on its working environment
- Importance of a product mindset versus an open-source approach
- MetaGame's culture, meritocracy, and financial sustainability
- The role of autonomy & mentorship in personal & professional development
"I always like to learn by myself and kind of be my own leader. It's about not wanting to waste my life... if I want to do something, I try at least. It's a habit that you have to build."
We uncovered layers behind a self-taught tech enthusiast's journey. Sero’s story is a testament to the power of self-motivation, the importance of adapting to changing learning environments, and the potential impact of mentorship. Sero’s insights into MetaGame and the broader tech landscape provide valuable lessons for anyone navigating this dynamic space.
Resources:
The Odin Project
Sero on Twitter
Decentra Talks Podcast
Serotonin Designs Blog
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In this episode, we dive in with Trent Van Epps, a non-technical core contributor to Ethereum and the founder of Protocol Guild. Trent shares his journey from studying to be an architect to working at the Ethereum Foundation & founding the Protocol Guild.
Currently serving on the Protocol Support team, overseeing network upgrades & maintenance; Trent highlights the need for non-technical people to make it all gel. He also outlines the decentralized governance & compensation mechanics of the Protocol Guild as well as the criticism he’s faced about it.
"Time weighting is one of the most important aspects because we're able to sidestep a lot of the... things that members are responsible for managing."
Overall, peth & Trent cover everything from the original Mist demo back in 2016 that got them both excited about Ethereum, all the way to the time-weighted compensation inside the Protocol Guild, contributor retention, decentralized protocol development funding, public goods, their favourite applications of Ethereum & their long term hopes for it.
"I think there's still something to build, there's still a lot of work to do to shape this blockchain substrate that we're all constructing together."
Key Topics:
Mist Demo 2016
Architecture to Blockchain Transition
Protocol Guild Initiative
Decentralized Applications & Usecases
Evolving Blockchain Design
Protocol Guild Origins
Funding Model
Resources:
Mist Demo Ethereum Foundation Protocol Guild Documentation EAS (Ethereum Attestation Service) Protocol Guild Website Trent Van Epps on Twitter Optimism Research Forum SourceCred--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message -
Hugi is an Icelandic entrepreneur & technologist involved in participatory political movements & decentralized organizations for over 15 years. He was a founding member of the Swedish Pirate Party, he helped build the participatory festival Borderland & currently works on open source platforms like Open Collective & Cobudget, empowering collaborative communities.
Hugi shares his early experience co-founding the Swedish Pirate Party, one of the first political movements organised as an online swarm. After that, he got involved with the Borderland festival. He saw it as an experimental sandbox for new coordination methods in decentralized decision-making.
Besides putting on the most decentralized festival for thousands of people, people of Borderland also built tools for doing so, one of which became Cobudget - an online tool for decentralized budgeting.
He hopes for more cross-pollination between DAOs & civil society organizations. DAOs can learn governance models from 100-years of experience. On the other hand, DAOs need to start interacting with & prove real-world impact before being taken seriously by the 99%. He suggests people build web3 solutions for civil society needs, as a bridge between the spaces.
“I realized that in a lot of these communities that are running open source software or DAOs, there's not a single person that has any experience from regular civil society organizations, because if they did, they would already have the blueprints in their heads of how this can look, because the blueprints are already there." - Hugi
Key Topics:
Origins of the Swedish Pirate Party & swarm organizing
Borderland festival as a decentralized sandbox
Self-organization and emergent leadership
Advice process for decentralized decision-making
Participatory budgeting with Cobudget
Learning from historic worker cooperatives
Real-world impact and adoption challenges
Bridging web3 and mainstream communities
Technocratic elitism in web3 spaces
Hybridizing DAOs and traditional nonprofits
Resources:
- Hugi Asgeirsson
- Borderland
- Cobudget
- Open Collective
- Swedish Pirate Party
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This time we got Stephen Reid - a teacher, technologist and coach who is involved in a variety of projects related to web3, metacrisis, metamodernism, psychedelics & personal development. He has taught numerous courses including Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance, DAOs, Web3, and AI. Currently he is studying for a certificate in machine learning and artificial intelligence from UC Berkeley.
Steven starts by describing his background and interests. He first became interested in metamodernism and the metacrisis around 2016-2017 by listening to thinkers like Daniel Schmachtenberger and Jordan Hall. He sees himself as a bridge builder between different communities like web3 and psychedelics that have more in common philosophically than people realize.
Peth & Stephen discuss the concepts of metamodernism and the metacrisis. The metacrisis examines the common drivers behind global crises like climate change, inequality, and more. It's about systems thinking and understanding how everything is interconnected. Metamodernism focuses more on inner development of individuals with the idea that if more people are self-actualized, it will be easier to address systemic issues.
Stephen shares his insights and experiences, exploring the interconnectedness of global challenges and how understanding underlying generator functions can pave the way to solving multiple crises simultaneously.
Some key ideas covered:
- The multipolar trap - how even good people can be driven to bad things when coordination systems fail. For example, countries not wanting to be the first to decarbonize their economy out of fear they'll fall behind competitively.
- The importance of both inner development and compassion as well as designing better external coordination mechanisms. You need both personal growth and systemic solutions.- Concepts from integral theory & the book Reinventing Organizations - which distribute ownership and decision-making rather than having rigid hierarchies.
- Practices like authentic relating that help groups attune to collective intelligence and make decisions together.
They discuss the challenges of governance in DAOs. Having tokens be fully transferrable often leads to plutocracy, but more experiments are happening with reputation-based voting and other models. The goal is distributing power but avoiding the issues of both "one person one vote" and pure token-based control.
He emphasizes the need for people in the web3 space to focus on how their work really contributes to human thriving, especially with the urgency of interconnected crises. Overall it was a wide-ranging conversation about systemic issues and personal growth.
Metacrisis thinking is joined-up thinking, holistic, and systems thinking. It's about understanding the interventions in any domain and how they can affect other domains. We should create a culture where everyone is aware of the possibility of downstream consequences and takes responsibility for understanding and mitigating them - Steven Reed
Key Topics:
- Systems thinking and the meta-crisis
- Coordination problems like multipolar traps
- Inner development, compassion, and practices
- Distributed ownership models for organizations
- Projects related to the meta-crisis
Resources:
- Metacrisis XYZ
- Reforge the Ring
- Futurecraft residencies
- Metamoderna
- Reinventing Organizations book
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In this episode, we welcome Zakku of Coordinape, a platform for decentralized compensation where people acknowledge & reward each other's contributions.
An activist & a coordinator - Zach has a deep background in building, coordinating & advising networks for impact. His path took him to co-founding Converge before his interest in peer-to-peer collaboration led him to explore the potential of crypto, become an early contributor at Yearn & eventually start Coordinape.
Inspired by decentralized compensation on a round table at Converge - Coordinape allows people to write their contributions for evaluation by peers. Each member receives 100 GIVE tokens to allocate to other members based on their contributions, then the funds get divided based on % of total GIVEs each member received.
There’s a lot more to it & Zakku emphasizes the importance of communication & reflection throughout the whole process - but that’s it in a nutshell.
Zach & peth dived into the challenges & opportunities of decentralized collaboration, discussing trade-offs of decentralization & efficiency, highlighting the need for context & cohesive team dynamics before going into the potential of AI to assist us.
They brushed on the difficulties of founding software projects as non-technical people as well as other personal & interpersonal challenges inherent in online collaboration;
In conclusion, Zakku & peth share similar beliefs in the potential of Web3 to create new systems, build better organizations & address societal issues.
“Web3 offers the potential to create new systems rather than fighting against the old ones. We have the tools to do things better than default systems."
Some of the topics:
- The launch of CoSoul NFTs in Coorinape
- Experience in activism, coordination & Converge
- Using Coordinape for decentralized compensation
- Challenges & advantages of decentralized collaboration
- Importance of context & communication
- Potential of AI in assisting DAOs
- Future vision of Coordinape
- Potential of Web3 & projects that make Zakku bullish
"We're trying to use technology to solve what is fundamentally a social problem...difficulties in working this way require self-awareness, emotional intelligence & open communication."
Resources:
Coordinape
Converge
Impact Networks (book)
How to Build Impact Networks (playbook)
Cabin
Krause House
Quests
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Malcolm & Intentions
In this episode of the MetaView Podcast, we welcome Malcolm Ocean; a goal-setter, developer & a solopreneur who’s been building Intend for the better half of a decade.
Reflecting on his own experience of realizing the power of setting intentions & pursuing values-aligned projects, Malcolm shares his journey of exploring intentionality & his motivation behind starting Intend and how it helps people gain clarity & realize their goals.
His overall idea is that motivation is not something that needs to be forced but simply recognized & channeled, highlighting the importance of understanding what blocks or inhibits motivation.
Why Intend
He primarily built Intend for himself & his friends whom he was helping with goal-setting, but the thing quickly took off to become his primary source of income.
Malcom also explores the differences between Intend, habit-tracking, and to-do apps, noting how Intend focuses on long term goals & fresh daily intentions rather than backlogged tasks or recurring habits. Qualitative reflections instead of metrics.
Like most guests of MetaView, Malcolm emphasizes the importance of playing win-win games & creating collaborative cultures to maximize positive outcomes for everyone involved.
Win-win Games & Self-energizing Teams
Malcolm’s interest stretch far beyond Intend and into team dynamics, consciousness & culture. By showing people how to play better games, he believes that a shift towards collaborative cultures can lead to a more fulfilling and harmonious society.
They go on to explore the idea of self-energizing teams, where individuals find collaborations that align with their own goals & where the motivation becomes effortless.
Highlighting the importance of accountability & the role of financial stakes, the episode concludes with a reflection on the role of clearly set goals & the misconception that monetary incentives are the primary driver of motivation.
"The moment you think you might want to get yourself to do something, you already have motivation to do it. Instead, focus on how to allow yourself to do it."
Some of the topics
Power of intentions
Choosing goals & the importance of deciding what not to do
Recognizing and channeling motivation
Fractal reviews and the satisfaction of tracking progress
Leveraging strengths & collaborations
Self-energizing meta teams & effortless motivation
The role of stakes in goal commitment
The role of money in motivation
Resources:
The Goal-Crafting Intensive - workshop, starting soon
Intend app
Malcolm's Twitter
Intend Philosophy
The Meta-Protocol For Human Trust-Building
A Collaborative Self-Energizing Meta-Team Vision (+two related vision pieces 1, 2)
4min Guided Meditation: Holding And Allowing An Intention
Robert Keegan's book "An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization"
Beeminder, StrongLifts, Runkeeper & Notion - apps mentioned
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In this MetaView episode, peth talked to Rob Morris; a metamodernist, a game b player & a serial entrepreneur since the dotcom era - currently running FunDAOmental & Prismatik as well as advising & investing in several other projects along the way. His passion for technology and people, cooperative coordination and the metacrisis led to a deep conversation on these topics & the role that technology plays for humanity to move towards more positive outcomes.
“At a very high level I think that the way that humans get things done reflects what's advantageous in the environment that we find ourselves in and also in a broad sense reflects a gradual evolution of the perspectives that we collectively hold and how we approach things”, he says.
Some of the topics:
Hierarchical coordination vs alignment based coordination
Coordination by control vs Coordination by alignment
SaaS software vs protocol style organizations
Network effect vs protectionism and monopoly, economy of scale
Coordination tension
The Mathew effect
Metacrisis & ways to address it
Meeting people’s needs to enable collective action
Sociocracy
Coordination failures
Resources:
Rob Morris Twitter
FunDAOmental Twitter
Prismatik Twitter
Prismatik Web
Sociocracy
The Death of Machiavelli by Rob Morris
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Visa Veerasamy is a prolific writer and creator. With a large list of followers on twitter, he is known for crafting a web of curious exploratory threads as well for being the author of the books Friendly Ambitious Nerd & Introspect. On a mission to spark curiosity, creativity, and prolificacy in the digital age, he is knitting a global network and encouraging other people to chase their curiosity & make friends.
Having grown up in libraries, he thinks of the internet as a grand one, a place with infinite possibilities where you can find people all over the world with the same interests and values. To find them he advises to create, share and dare to be bad at what you do when you’re starting, which will lead to form a cluster of great people thriving together.
It sounds simple because it is - but he has a whole vision around how individuals simply following their interests & making friends will lead to great positive outcomes for the society as a whole, not just individuals doing so.
Some of the topics:
Becoming a friendly ambitious nerd
Advice to younger people
Identity vs Anonimity
How to be a friendly ambitious nerd
Why become a friendly ambitious nerd
Good marketing
Resources:
Visa’s Twitter
Visa’s Web page
Friendly Ambitious Nerd Book
Introspect Book
Visa’s Substack: voltaic verses
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Simona Pop has been involved with the Ethereum community and DAOs since the early days and recalls the levels of enthusiasm and energy that made her get involved into many different projects in the ecosystem among which are co-founding Bounties Network and organizing Schelling Point, a unconference around coordination, regenerative economics and DeSci. She’s currently the Metagovernance Steward at ENS DAO - among other things.
Some of the topics:
Bounties Network
Interoperability vs personal interest
Biggest lessons over the years
Creating initiation experiences
Kernel mentorship
Schelling Point & lessons learned
Unconferences
Biomimicry
DAOs’ biggest problems
Standardization & framework for DAOs
Her project, Bounties Network, was about building a bounties platform as a protocol - interoperable. It was also possibly the first Web3 project incentivizing regeneration in the real world by putting bounties on things like beach cleanups. One of the constraints she encountered was the mentality of ownership over collective interests, which complicates the move towards interoperability. A mindset that must go through a process of unlearning to prioritize collaboration, one of her key takeaways from her years in the space.
If you’ve been following Simona on twitter, you might have noticed she likes looking at collaboration & decentralization through the lens of biomimicry, which aims to emulate nature’s processes, forms and ecosystems from the awareness that we as humans are part of a greater network. In this sense she proposes standardization in DAO frameworks & communications, which would be a baseline and a soil ready for planting that also allows navigation easily and that would organize the circuit of information, resource and decision making.
Resources:
Simona’s Twitter
Schelling Point twitter
Bounties Network
ETH Global Twitter
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In this episode of Share What You’re Making Chair & Bacon have a chat with Derrick Coleman, who is the community steward at Ethereum Denver as well as a regular contributor on Raid Guild, where his journey in Web3 began.
From there he would make the bridge to his current role, taking care of the health of the community. An appropriate role for him considering it has been precisely the sense of community what has kept him in Web3. “The reason I'm in the space is because there are these communities of people that care for each other and look out for each other because of some shared values or goals. I'm not here for the libertarian not-your-keys-not-your-coin-get-off-my-property vibes. I'm here for the let's make an internet co-op so we can work together and have less extractive value systems sucking out whatever value we create for the sake of the shareholders”.
With that in mind and a strong purpose on education, he’s been aligned with ETH Denver Ethos to buidl, to create the world we live in and shaping its tools and foundations; this is what excites him about bringing together the people and the technology in a cooperative of people that are incentivized to see each other succeed.
“I care first and foremost about the buidling. The only thing you can do with Bitcoin is hold it, so maxis turned that into a meme; you can Hodl aka not sell, but over on Ethereum, which has a smart contract layer, it gets more interesting because you can build code on top of the machine, so instead of Hodl we Buidl interesting projects using that technology, so our entire ecosystem of buidlers buidling their projects is the key thing and the part I'm excited about”.
Some of the topics:
How he was onboarded to Web3
How he got into Raid guild and Sporkdao and ETH Denver
His role on ETH Denver team
Camp Buidl
His take on onboarding
Code along with Derreck videos
Lens merch stolen?
ETH Denver reach
Some lessons learned and ETH Denver 2024
Path to ETH Denver 2024 with Infinity Keys
Buffycorn Ventures
Projects that started at ETH Denver
Resources:
Derrek’s Twitter
Derrek’s Lens
Raid Guild Twitter
Raid Wild Web
Code along with Derrek
ETH Denver Twitter
ETH Denver Web
ETH Denver Youtube Channel
SporkDAO Twitter
SporkDAO Web
Spork DAO Discord
Infinity Keys Web
Welook Web3 Social Platform
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On this episode of Frontiers of Coordination Peth welcomes artist, philosopher and researcher Travis Wyche. After a couple of years in the Web3 space he considers himself a more culturally focused contributor rather than a technical person even when he spends part of his time doing a variety of research on UXs and developing UI design. The fact is that the interweaving of his skills and interests led to Pluriverse, a transmedia lorecrafting experiment in collective imagineering.
Screaming at punk shows was his first approach to the Moloch meme. Later in life when he entered Web3 he would connect it to Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl, an event that in a way funneled him down a rabbit hole of connecting these cultural influences with the technical game theory of coordination. That is what attracted him to the space in the first place: “I'm not really a Degen; I didn't get drawn into crypto through DeFi or anything like that, through the tokens really at all, but more of the high level philosophy, politics, the various kinds of connections to things in my own background as an artist, as a musician, as a community organizer, as an anarchist, as an aging punk. All those kinds of cultural affinities are what brought me in”.
It's from that perspective that he appreciates the meaning of the Moloch meme, known as the god of coordination failure while also associated with child sacrifice among other things. For him,it’s an image that serves as a “memetic filter” for people to understand the potency that image creates for a “community first” kind of orientation.
Some of the topics:
His origins in the space
The rise and fall of the Moloch meme
Moloch memetic filter
Individual mindshift for successful coordination
WTF is Pluriverse
Pluriverse current projects
Genres, themes and characters in Pluriverse
Regen in the space
Regen beyond crypto
MetaCrisis
Intentional communities
A.I.
Resources:
DAOHaus Twitter
DAO Haus Web
Pluriverse twitter
Pluriverse Web
MolochDAO website
MolochDAO twitter
MetaCartel twitter
MetaCartel website
Allen Ginsberg poem Howl
GreenPill Website
GreenPill Podcast
Kevin Owoki Twitter
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Will Ruddick is an econo-optimist; in his words. A physicist that got into economics. Experiences such as being in the Peace Corps helped shape his vision around using technology for mutual credit on community groups coming together to produce mutual aid for each other. So he founded Grassroots Economics, a non-profit foundation developing economic empowerment to help communities realize and share their abundance. In this episode he shares with Peth his motivations and experiences with the project.
The proposal is to have communities form a type of agreement on their means of exchange, goods and services that are redeemable from vouchers that can be used in or out of the community. Through blockchain, these vouchers have an expiration built in and the contract holds the legal instruments for it. This type of exchange is actually similar with traditional systems, which in Kenya have not only a rich history but 42 different names to refer to.
For Ruddick this is a basic use case of blockchain that allows creating endogenous instruments in an association. However, in his opinion, for it to succeed there needs to be liability. “When I read the Bitcoin whitepaper and they talk about community currencies this is what I think they're talking about and historically if you look at a lot of the community currency research and all these examples over the years, the ones that were very successful had clear liability; it was clear who was backing this vouchers with what services”.
Some of the topics:
How he started Grassroots Economics
How does Grassroots Economics work
Adoption of the tech in these communities
Workshops for collective vision
Blockchain for accountability
Limited and trackable liability
Grassroots Economics spread and outreach
Sustainability
Toughest part on his journey
Hopes for the future
Resources:
Will Ruddick’s Twitter
Grassroots Economics
Grassroots Economics Twitter
Peace Corps Web Page
Elinor Ostrom Books
Valora App Web
Valora App Twitter
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Brandon Norgaard is a researcher, writer and founder of the Enlightened Worldview, a project described in short as a quest to promote peace through societal understanding and inner awareness. In this episode he shares with Peth about the perks of building an organization that will help people improve self-awareness and mindfulness.
Norgaard explains the project seeks to “promote a new enlightenment”, implementing the premises given in Hanzi Freinacht books The Listening Society and Nordic Ideology and based on Game B as well as “Bildung”, a concept that refers to how individuals and groups of people learn and thrive through education and personal development to cultivate skills, habits and values that contribute to society.
This would be made possible through software development to encourage people to come together, have leadership structures and coordinate local face-to-face events and networks structured to strengthen communities, improve their quality of life and add value. “There's a way to do it that is entertaining to people while they are also getting sense making and awareness capabilities and meeting spirituality by being a part of these communities and these circles”, he says.
“What gives me hope is looking at local Game Change, local developments of community circles, a deeper integration across aspects of public life and social experiments in that regard and using technology to benefit people's lives”. Timestamp for video: 32:42 - 33:55
Some of the topics:
What is Enlightened Worldview
Metamodern Hackers Collective
Adult lifelong learning
Enlightenment Worldview platform
Artificial Intelligence
WTF is Game B
WTF is Metamodernism
Relationship between Game B & Metamodernism
Downtown San Francisco homelessness issue
Local game change and development of communities and circles
His advice to MetaGame
Resources:
Enlightened Worldview project twitter
Enlightened Worldview project website
Brandon Norgaard on Facebook
Lene Rachel Andersen on Twitter
Lene Rachel Andersen’s book Bildung: Keep Growing (2020)
The Archdisciplinary Research Center
Gregg Henriques’ Unified Theory of Knowledge
Roy Bhaskar’s Critical realism and the ontology of persons
Ken Wilbers’s Integral Theory
The Listening Society
Nordic Ideology
12 Commandments: For Extraordinary People To Master Ordinary Life
Hanzi Feinacht books:
The Listening Society
Nordic Ideology
12 Commandments: For Extraordinary People To Master Ordinary Life
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Jim Rutt remembers his days as a businessman, CEO of Network Solutions and CTO of Thomson-Reuters. When he retired in 2001 he went back to his original love: science. He then started working with the Santa Fe Institute as a researcher -where he met Jordan Hall- and eventually became the chairman. It was 2012 when he and some friends started the social movement and philosophical set of ideas known today as Game B.
In this episode Rutt and Peth dive deep into the movement that aims to create the social operating system for the future, from the early attempts as the Emancipation Party to the current state and possible scenarios.
Rutt recognizes the damage caused by Game A's exponential growth approach of the world while he also acknowledges the process of “bottom-up” culturalization that has to take place first for Game B to succeed. “The Game B turn is to do two things. One is to develop a way of living in the world that fully honors our natural world and actually helps it regenerate from some of the harm that's been done in the late stages of Game A, and does it in a way that is organized around increasing human well-being and puts human well-being central”.
Some of the topics
Complexity science
Game A Background
WTF is Game B?
Mental Health crisis
Network technologies
Building growth inwards vs macro growth
Game B Communities
Face-to-face aspect of Game B
Consumption ratings in the western world
Failure modes of game B
Roles in the Game B community
Bad attractors or scenarios
Resources:
Jim Rutt’s twitter
Jim Rutt’s essay In search of the 5th attractor
Jim Rutt’s on Medium
Jim Rutt’s Show
GameB.org
Santa Fe Institute
Network Wars
An Initiation to Game B Film
Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy
#GameB
Emancipation Party Website
Research and further reading
Jordan Hall
Jamie Wheal
Jamie Wheal’s Recapture the rapture
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Chair & Bacon are back with a new episode! This time they take us into ETHDenver, with Chair telling us about his experience at the largest blockchain festival in the world.
The event, where he got to meet a lot of octos from MetaGame was a, was a good way to get both hyped about MetaFest2, the only MetaCartel event happening this year, from august 11th to 25th at Fort Punta Christo in Croatia.
Wait… WTF is MetaFest? A festival including everything you’d expect of a festival + everything you’d expect of a conference + an optional week-long trip. “I have no doubt that it would be a fun time, a very good bonding experience for a lot of friends that don’t get to see each other in person or very rarely”, Chair said. With the vast list of speakers and the epic adventures down the coast of Croatia, we think so too ;)
From texturePunx, Keyp onboarding platform, Sillicon Valley Bank going bankrupt, to the “spookiness” of Aavegotchi closing the $GHST bonding curve the exact day of DAI’s depeg, in this episode Chair and Bacon also talked about news and projects that have caught their attention these days as well as future guests for the show.
Some of the topics:
MetaFest 2
Adrenaline Parks
Chair’s twitter ban
Texture Punx
ETHDenver highlights
Keyp Onboarding platform
SVB bankrupt news
Aavegotchi’s $GHST bonding curve tuned off
FakeGotchis
Resources:
Chair’s ’sTwitter
Bacon Lens BaconOG.lens
Bacon Lens: BaconOG.lens
SWYM Twitter
SWYM Discord
MetaFest Website
InfinityKeys Twitter
Raid Brood Twitter
MetaCartel Twitter
Texture Twitter
Keyp Website
SporkDAO website
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Patrick Rawson discovered Ethereum in January of 2017 and it seemed to him like a game changer. By 2019 he quit his job in advertising and became a full-time DAOist and regen. He is a co-founder of Curve Labs & Kolektivo. In this episode he talks about his view on the evolution of crypto space and what he has learned so far.
From his perspective, which weighs the institutional framework, the crypto technology has to interface with the real world to build effective finance. “What we need is a new constellation of institutional actors operating from the bottom-up, with more of a community gaze than this top-down flow of money”, he says.
Ecotechnics was the term he once used to define what is now widely known as regenerative finance, a term with which he was trying to answer a question: “Money is a technology that is used to solve this trifecta problem of store value and medium of exchange and so forth; so understanding that, how can we create a bottom-up form of money which has a different set of outcomes? I use this term ecotechnics because I think those outcomes need to be particularly mindful of the closed ecological system that is the Earth".
He brings to the table the use of what he calls process assets, as a form of tokenization that could have enormous real-world benefits by taking different processes and turning them into abstractions of these to guarantee they happen. This is also without the need to subscribe to any particular agenda and thus decentralizing authority from institutions. “I find this all very very exciting from an institutional perspective as it's taking a historically monopolizable form of authority and giving it to regular people to do what they will with it”.
As for the future, his hope is that the distinction between Web3/Crypto and the real world dissolves. “There's sort of this underlying assumption that every time we say crypto we're referring to some virtual domain, some metaverse on the horizon that doesn't affect the real world and I would like to see that that distinction close over time. Where when we refer to crypto or refer to Web3, we are simultaneously referring to more than a predominantly virtual domain, that we are referring to entire communities”.
Some of the topics
His biggest lessons in the space His posts series called ‘DAOs and the Global Economic Order’ Ecotechnics & Refi Process assets & proof of impact Liquidity in impact formation Universalist politics The future of Web3/CryptoResources
Pat’s Twitter Curve Labs Website Curve Labs Twitter Kolektivo’s Website Kolektivo’s TwitterDAOs and the Global Economic Order
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After writing the latest MetaGame Newsletter Metagame & Metadornism, pt.1, peth sat down to talk with Hanzi Freinacht, political philosopher, historian and sociologist, author of ‘The Listening Society’ and ‘Nordic Ideology’ to dive deep into foundations, views and mindset of Metamodernism.
“Metamodernism comes from the heart of postmodern thinking, it thrives on that critique, on seeing the cracks in the modern project, but it wants to find a direction of development which is going deeper into who we are as human beings and develop our relationships and our worldviews”, says Freinacht.
In his words, the metamodern project is to again believe in growth and development, going beyond critique and beyond just increasing GDP, producing more science papers, inventing new gadgets and medicines. Rather, Freinacht explains, “it's about increasing the sense of meaning and the quality of relationships and the scaffolds for our own personal and psychological development”.
Sustainability, alienation, inequality and lack of meaning are some of the fundamental problems of modernism that the metamodern mindset addresses as a result of a “proto-synthesis” for the kinds of life we would want. “Metamodernism tries to fulfill all of the promises of postmodern critique, all of those values, all of those injustices, but it does so by building a program for the future for what you can do”, he explains.
This Metamodern mindset is self transforming and a result of the interaction of four dimensions: cognitive complexity, symbolic code, subjective states and depth. These layers move between two extremes: “The metamodernist mindset re-enchants the world but does so at the same time explaining everything that can be explained with the best possible explanatory models; and that sense of creating meaning in a secular or rational world is in a sense the core of the metamodernist quest”.
Some of the topics covered:
Metamodernism Fundamental problems of modernism Metamodern mindset The four dimensions of human development Demographic of the metamodernist community Nordic ideology and different types of politics Green Social Liberalism MetaGame & Metamodernism Metamodern cryptosphereResources:
Hanzi Freinacht Twitter
Hanzi Freinacht Metamoderna
Jordan Peterson’s 12 rules for life
Hanzi Freinacht’s 12 Commandments: For Extraordinary People To Master Ordinary Life
Robert Kegan's Stages of Adult Development: Self-Transforming or Interindividual KnowersFrances Fukoyama The End of History and the Last Man
Hanzi Feinacht books:The Listening Society
Nordic Ideology
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