Announcing GnosisDAO. Gnosis was founded in 2015 with the aim to build prediction markets that enable worldwide access to accurate information. Five years later, our technology powers decentralized prediction market platforms¹, and we’re ready to embark on the next giant leap of the journey: GnosisDAO. (more)

Baldur Bjarnason: Which type of novelty-seeking web developer are you? I’m noodling around at home and taking stock after having left a job of four years. (more)

Gnosis builds new market mechanisms for decentralized finance (DeFi). Our three interoperable product lines allow you to securely create, trade, and hold digital assets on Ethereum. https://gnosis.io/ GnosisDAO is the prediction market-driven collective, stewarding the Gnosis ecosystem through futarchy: governance by prediction markets. (more)

The Father of Futarchy Has an Idea to Reshape DAO Governance. Sixteen years after Robin Hanson published a seminal paper on using prediction markets to inform governance decisions, his ideas have found a home in the Ethereum community. (more)

Kayleigh Petrie: Digital cooperatives are the future. The operations, day to day decisions and rules can be easily handled and enforced by pre-defined code, called smart contracts, running on a blockchain. (more)

Why Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Will Reinvent The Industry As We Know It. Now, we are moving toward the next frontier — decentralized AI that can run and train on local devices or make decisions in decentralized networks like blockchain. (more)

Nathan Baschez: Will DAOs replace Corporations? Punk 4156, a notable NFT collector who identifies as the CryptoPunk that he owns.... this project, NounsDAO, has in less than two months amassed a community-controlled treasury worth $20M, growing by roughly $500K a day (more)

Kei Kreutler: A Prehistory of DAOs. Cooperatives, gaming guilds, and the networks to come. (more)

Balaji Srinivasan: The Network Union. the network union, a social graph organized in a tree-like structure with a leader, a purpose, a crypto-based financial and messaging system, and a daily call-to-action. cf DAO, cooperative (more)

Evan Armstrong: Product-Led Growth’s Failure. Qualtrics should’ve lost but somehow emerged victorious. By wielding a 3 pronged strategy of utilizing cheap Utah labor, gutsy product marketing, and aggressive GTM tactics, the company resoundingly beat Surveymonkey. (more)

Hunter Walk: “Coming for the Content, Staying for the Community” Started With Video Games (Or Maybe Religion?) (more)

Tribes, Institutions, Markets, Networks (more)

John Robb on Tribalism and how it fits into David Ronfeldt's TIMN framework (Tribes, Institutions, Markets, Networks). Each time a new form arises, it generates a set of dynamics - and it's the same set of dynamics each time. No society can escape the TIMN progression or these dynamics.

Aaron Z. Lewis: Being Your Selves: Identity R&D on alt Twitter. I grew up in cyber spaces where legal names were few and far between: RuneScape, AIM, Club Penguin, Neopets, and the like. But when I turned 13, Facebook opened up its floodgates to teenagers across America and washed away our playful screen names. (more)

When a businesses priorities/culture and growth are focused on product management.

Tim Berners-Lee projects like Solid generally turn me off because they seem to fight against Worse is Better and not provide a simple/fast path to getting benefits. But... (more)

Bruce Sterling story - 2011-04-30-SterlingManekiNeko

Will Wright is working on a Computer Game based on Maneki Neko - actually an ARG?!? (more)

Bruce Sterling's Maneki Neko story (from 1998?!?) reminds me of Halting State (the SPOOKS ARG bits) and Daemon. The really big network databases, with their armies of search engines, indexers, and catalogues, had some very arcane interests. The net machines would never pay for data, because the global information networks were noncommercial. But the net machines were very polite, and had excellent net etiquette. They returned a favor for a favor, and since they were machines with excellent, enormous memories, they never forgot a good deed... He had first met his wife at a video store. She had just used her credit card to buy a disk of primitive black-and-white American anime of the 1950s. The pokkecon had urged him to go up and speak to her on the subject of Felix the Cat. Felix was an early television cartoon star and one of Tsuyoshi’s personal favorites. Tsuyoshi would have been too shy to approach an attractive woman on his own, but no one was a stranger to the net... Tsuyoshi offered a hand gesture. The woman gestured back, a jerky series of cryptic finger movements. Tsuyoshi didn’t recognize any of the Gesture-s. She wasn’t from his part of the network. (Tribe, Network Economy, Real World Game)

Can be a whole range of things. (more)