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Exploring the future of organizations, innovation, and systems design. Futurist. Our legacy organizations are a technology in the throes of disruption.
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Our whole approach to innovation needs some innovation

This was a surprisingly prescient view of the capabilities AI is going to need to successfully navigate the minefield of potential vicious cycles ahead.

The biggest finding from a quarter century of networked politics: We are not great at designing systems for networked politics.

It's pretty simple: The best way to prepare for coming AI disruptions is by building up our institutional shock absorbers.

One of the (many) odd things about cryptocurrency is that it has somehow managed to maintain an image as something futuristic when it’s actually ancient in tech years: Bitcoin, the original cryptocurrency, which still accounts for more than half of the total crypto market cap, is 15 years old.

Tired: “Taxpayers” Wired: “Bagholders”

There are a lot of underlying assumptions built into mainstream economics that may or may not be true anymore.

Social foundations are integral to tech. Functionally, the layers of the digital stack extend below hardware/machine language into culture/institutions etc. It is possible to topple the whole Jenga tower by overwhelming these foundation layers. They need to be patched and upgraded like the rest

Stabilize the eschaton

Oof! Talk about exploiting an “inherent design flaw”. Anticipate more instances like this as human interaction with robotics become the norm #WatchThisSpace

One strange consequence of living in periods of change: Excellent paradigm selection will generally beat excellent execution.

ChatGPT and Claude are much too eager to please. Is there a simple way to tone it down a bit without repeatedly asking every few minutes?

The Starter Packs are a really neat innovation. They feel like a small but genuine step toward unlocking new kinds of collective intelligence.

Aligning Our New Technologies Is Going to Require A New Institutionalism medium.com/@DevinFidler...