Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
I do not believe that there is any people on earth freer than they, and less able to allow the subjection of their wills to any power whatever – so much so that Fathers here have no control over their children, or Captains over their subjects, or the Laws of the country over any of them, except in so far as each is pleased to submit to them. There
... See moreDavid Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
FROM CYPHERPUNKS TO WEB3:
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • A Political History of DAOs
Reputation became a kind of compensation.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
So Just Who Are These People?
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.