For those involved in synchronised storytelling, this approach to aligning your narrative strategy with the specific physics of your moment in the cycle may be quite useful.
(New essay) Narrative Cycle Entry
A core reality for founders is that narrative timing has become a first-order strategic decision that demands the same rigor as product, GTM, or research.
When announcing their company, founders should be aware of the point in the narrative cycle their category is in.
In this essay I walk through the 5 core stages of narrative cycles and how companies should position and build their narratives from launch through the varying waves of narrative hype and competition density.
As DAOs continue to evolve, and the study of their governance continues to expand in scope and complexity, it can be hard to identify a good starting point for initial exploration.
That’s why we’re thrilled to publish our Overview on DAO Governance:
https://t.co/zINP9geRl9
Accept and transcend the constantly getting weirder reality through this distillation of meta trends, h/t @KleinKleinKlein + @ai_nwo https://t.co/bSGKexuS3R
How will work/life change over next ~3-5 years? As we synthesize the latest tech + trends in culture, what are the implications?
In an attempt to connect dots, get your input, and prompt conversation…
🥁🔮 9 forecasts that made the cut:
The new year approacheth. What's In? What's Out?
Regress Studies presents: your one-stop shop for the trends of 2023 in fashion, art, metascience, and Youtube videoessays. https://t.co/xUzpkPqSs5
DALL-E 2 vs Midjourney vs StableDiffusion mega thread: photography, illustration, painters, abstract
these image synths are like instruments - it's amazing we'll get so many of them, each with a unique "sound" 🤯
rules: same prompt, 1:1 aspect ratio, no living artists
MidJourney AI art is some dystopian level shit and I give it a month before we see ads using it. These have all been created by @jeffhandesign using the art-making tool, still in beta.
Other Internet is an applied research organization
We study and build social technology
Our aim is to create alignment between technology, values, and culture
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$ENS has launched!
Eligible users can claim their $ENS governance tokens at: https://t.co/ZGGfGLhdhS
No rush: You have until *May 4, 2022* to claim your tokens. Claiming costs gas, so feel free to wait for favorable gas prices.
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Over the last week, we wrote “A Declaration of Interdependence of Cyberspace”.
This work was precipitated by Facebook’s rebranding as Meta, & is a direct fork of Barlow’s Declaration, a foundational cyberpunk text.
Read it here: https://t.co/dhkcxKv73t
Last year @adrjeffries and I published a @TheMarkup investigation that found Google gave itself 41% of real estate on Search. In the months since, we designed a similar study. This time for Amazon. Today we're releasing it:
https://t.co/5GDHZjSZcs
"As the Bulgarian economy faltered at the end of the decade, young Bulgarian programmers lost their job prospects along with much of their creative freedom. In this crisis was born the other face of socialist Bulgaria’s computer revolution—the virus." https://t.co/wtoDgWFws4
Excited to have my new piece @CIGIonline out in the world! I think through/critique some ways historians can contribute to contemporary debate on information: analogy, chronology, and expanding our imaginations.
https://t.co/iqPZF5NMmF