Forking is Expected
Web3, Creator Economy and Digital Decolonisation
👋 On time for your weekend: a round-up of this week's 23 remarkable stories at the intersection of #technology, #business, #design, and #culture.
📚 Reading
The Dao of DAOs:
“Taking Uniswap’s elegant core design, we’ve added community-oriented features that we believe help improve the design of the protocol, as well as provide further benefits to the actors involved.” Imagine writing that sentence in public as a traditional company: “Taking Facebooks’s source code and design...” That wouldn’t happen. But Web3 is different; forking is expected.
👾 Software is eating software—Not Boring
From The Attention Economy To The Creator Economy:
Over the last century, we’ve complicated supply- and value chains to the extent we’ve almost forgotten there’s a creator behind the things and the content we consume. The Creator Economy is a digital and global version of a world we used to know—one where we support and celebrate digital artisans directly.
😎 Software is bringing back the good times—Forbes
Digital Decolonisation:
Again and again, I saw how local businesses, local entrepreneurs, local customers, and local governments all said they don't like how these cross-border multinationals are interacting with their domestic economies. In essence, they were uncomfortable with Digital Colonisation of their countries by global tech titans
🤖 Software is fighting software—Undervalued Shares
🎧 Listening
Shopify’s Impact on the Creator Economy:
The narrative around programming is more interesting than people realise. It's because since blacksmithing we never really had a craft where the craftsman make their own tools. [And] software is the ultimate play for leverage: you have this zero marginal cost infrastructure everyone on planet Earth can add to.
Tobi Lütke—This Week in Startups
How Scenes Work:
That's why the startup scene exists, that's why the music scene exists: It's because they are latching into something very authentic about how the world works and how people find motivation and purpose. A scene is essentially a collection of purpose that everybody has agreed to and that's why they're there. That's why scenes actually accomplish all these interesting, creative things.
Alex Danco—Infinite Loops
Investing as Activism:
You don't need an NFT per se, but I don't think of an NFT as the finished piece of work. I think of it as a call to arms, as a manifesto. It's kind of the thesis behind this community, and the NFT embodies that.
James Young—Means of Creation
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