Welcome. This week will be short and sweet, but full of links. We suggest opening them all, if only briefly.
The team at Abridged is going through some steps to define a more precise culture and take stock of what we’ve built in order to move forward full force. We’re bullish on the tech provided by the v2, and want to ensure we start off on the right foot with the launch.
Culture, Coops, and DAOs
“Human culture began with a murder. That culture was fueled by rage and rivalry, which led to violence. Managing that violence is the secret reason for all religious and political institutions.” - and excerpt from Peter Theil’s Religion.
A radical vision for the future of DAOs.
A method to establish remote culture (gitlab’s guide).
Reinforcement for video game bonding.
More thoughts on corporate game leagues, and the place to find them.
Really hammering the message.
A Co-Op game studio.
Alfred Alder created individual psychology and we bought some books.
How baseball minor league players cooperate to share risk.
Hyped on worker-owned CoOps.
COOP & Product Insights
Engineering cooperative games with Amy Jo Kim.
If that wasn’t enough, here’s more from Amy Jo.
Is your startup alive or dead?
Important thoughts on headless brands.
Visions of the next version of the passion economy.
Metrics for assessing the new social economy.
Product thoughts examining Superhuman.
Steve Job’s world was also full of noise… they decided to bet on the people.
In Other News
CO opened sports betting, and a prediction for others to follow.
Brad Burnham is bullish on crypto apps (S/O 3Box) has .
Crypto terms glossary by a16z.
You can now hook frontend through Figma.
ETHWaterloo winners (many contract account wallet tools!).
Blockstack made a decentralized Slack.
We found that Telegram and Rocketchat are compatible.
How to measure community strength?
How the internet evolves.
All the best, as always, please reach out with thoughts, feedback, or just to chat.
Cheers,
The Abridged Crew
PS: checkout our batched tx flow, and lookout for another demo vid coming sooon ; )!