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Penguin slid into the MetaGame and out of his 9-5 thanks to a classic pandemic story including working-from-home and a covid layoff. He found the DAOspace originally by alpha-testing a text-based game called waterdeep. He learned about NFTs and started asking questions, the answers to which hurled him down the rabbit hole of discovery, finding MetaCartel, MetaGame and other online communities. He started as a developer, and never expected that he’d be playing an instrumental piece in building bridges, connecting communities, understanding novel technologies and engaging members. In this episode we explore Penguin’s entry into the world of DAOs and how that evolved into his participation in 14+ DAOs. We talk about his secrets for organization and success (hint: love and sticky notes play an integral part), web33 technology, democracy, and how to seize opportunities in the cryptospace (by contributing & not worrying about payments). Some of the topics: Connecting web3-aligned people with their optimal growth positions Equalizing opportunities rather than equalizing wealth 24hr days and rapid progress in the crypto space Community and social interaction in DAOs Skill Tree mapping Penguin and Peth discuss the freedom that results from taking ownership over the value you add to the DAOspace, and the collective empowerment created - the work of sovereign developers no longer belongs to their employers, but rather can be used to create value in multiple different networks. They further explore this freedom by acknowledging the opportunity that arises from a super interconnected community full of DM-able rockstars! The episode concludes with a comforting reminder that while financial gain is nice, having the right reasons to show up to work is everything. “Credit sleep and understand your own limitations. Balancing yourself and having friends you can connect to is just as important as creating the next project. It let’s you sustain and be a person, rather than a machine.” Resources Waterdeep Ethernal MetaCartel MetaFactory Steemit and Justin Sun Skill Forest Working Group DAOhaus --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

Santi Siri, founder of Democracy Earth Foundation, has been working with technologies attempting to advance democracy for over a decade. He began in Argentina with an internet-based political party that was proposing candidates committed to using their power according to the peoples’ interests online. With help from a grant in 2015 from Y Combinator, he started Democracy Earth Foundation, a non-profit building open source & censorship-resistant democracies that can be deployed anywhere with an internet connection. In their research, and out of the need to register voters with unique identities, the Proof of Humanity protocol was born. Proof of Humanity protocol uses facial registration (i.e. uploading a video/picture) to ensure unique user identity online, while protecting sensitive personal information. In this episode, Peth and Santi discuss the function and reasoning behind the Proof of Humanity protocol, and explore how this can be used as part of online democracy. Some of the topics Proof of Humanity using faces as public keys for unique human identification Kleros justice protocol for settling disputes Difference between Proof of Humanity and BrightID Universal Basic Income sustainability Democratic governance for DAOs Santi began deep in the world of politics and gained some valuable insights regarding the efficacy of creating change within traditional systems. “In order to become successful in [traditional systems] you have to play under their rules, and it is very likely that you will end up being changed by them. With technology, we can build a new model that makes the old system obsolete.” The episode concludes with an acknowledgement of the commitment required to make a real difference and quintessential advice for anyone working hard to bring their dreams to life: “Never give up”. Resources Democracy Earth Tedx Talk - The Future of Democracy Y Combinator Proof of Humanity Kleros BrightID Yearn Finance --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

Hammad is a human of MetaGame; a software engineer, a designer, a futurist & a DAOist. Contributor to MetaGame, MetaFactory, Sourcecred & MetaCartel. he began contributing to MetaGame in late 2019. He was our very first serious builder, bringing us Sourcecred, building the first landing page & setting the foundations of the MetaOS. Suffice to say, we owe him a lot. In this episode we explore Hammad’s personal history; from crafting & trading in Runescape, to turning down Microsoft & his journey into the cryptoverse - along with explorative commentary on how web3 is providing a wealth of opportunity to people worldwide. Some of the topics The welcoming nature of the crypto space to newbies Discord as the current tool for web3 communities NFTs beyond art Building “Squad wealth” Standing on the shoulders of giants & composability in Web3 Peth and Hammad discuss the ways in which crypto is revolutionizing financial systems, community wealth and coordination. They discuss the importance of good coordination and project management, as well as the rapid rate of evolution and the potential that is available because of that. “Collaborating is more effective as a business strategy than trying to build your own and compete. In web3, you have huge projects and communities that are so powerful because they are collaborating with each other and creating a network of value.” The episode concludes with a critical assessment of the degenerative side of web3; from gambling in the world’s biggest casino to chasing the “highs” of sourcecred, to buying and selling tokens to maximize profits while disregarding the communities behind them. Resources The Economy of Runescape Squad Wealth The Defiant - Insane production quality DeFi news House of Ethereum House of NFTs House of DAOs Ethhub --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

Vinay got his start in software engineering, then spent about half his career in defense and energy policy think tanks working on the big “save the world” questions - food, shelter, pandemics, and all the rest of the worst-case scenario planning stuff. Then he decided to get a “real job” and ended up managing the launch of Ethereum back in 2015. Finally, he went on his way to found Mattereum. The discussion kicks off around the problem of capitalism with being extractive at one end, and polluting at the other end. How do we produce higher quality of life on a massively reduced environmental footprint?  The 4 Steps of Capitalism Investment, Production, Consumption & Waste. The first three have been massively optimized, but we're still lacking good data & incentives to optimize the final step and loop it back into step 1. Which is where Mattereum comes into play, linking physical with digital & creating a data trail feeding back the product performance to producers. Other than closing Capitalism's feedback loop, Mattereum will make second hand markets orders of magnitude more efficient by tying code with law - the real world kind - and allowing the disputes arising in the digital sphere to be solved through insurance or escalated to real world courts. Armed with data & enabled by efficient second hand markets, we become custodians of assets rather consumers. Because you now expect to eventually sell the things you buy - you stop consuming things and start investing in things; buying higher quality goods & turning from a consumer to an investor. Some of the topics Issues with extractive capitalism Connecting Ethereum to legacy legal systems Permanent Investment economies Social Operating Systems Anarcho-syndicalism “Consumption is a thing that we cannot afford in a world with a billion starving people. But investment is how we take what we have and turn it into what we need. Everything that we buy ought to be something that generates wealth not just for us, but also for the world. And if we take this mindset of a permanent investment economy rather than a consumption economy, and if we hate losing money because our goods are degrading and being thrown away - pretty soon we won't be producing or buying "cheap" goods that break. Vinay and Peth then dig into MetaGame “I think you’ve done really really good work in terms of identifying this kind of a social operating system. You’ve got materials about values, ways of relating to other people, methodology, there’s all this layer, then there’s an economics layer, and the activities layer. So values, economic incentives, and activities layers - similar problem solving capacity to a conventional corporation, but run very strongly on internal markets and a different set of protocols. [If you say] you know, we’re building software to support anarcho-syndicalist economic democracies, there aren’t many people you can say that to and have their eyes light up, but that is actually what you’re doing and it’s super impressive, it’s really really good.” Resources: Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps Mattereum Fix The World Deck Mattereum LA Launchpad and the Space Yurt Mattereum Shop The Future of Stuff by Vinay Gupta --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

Primavera de Filippi, a legal scholar and researcher, discusses the governance of blockchain technologies and the challenges they pose. She explains the concept of governance by design, which involves embedding governance structures into technological architectures. Primavera also introduces one of her past projects, Plantoids, blockchain-based life forms that replicate and reproduce autonomously.  She highlights the legal questions surrounding these entities and the need for recognition and regulation. Primavera explores the potential of CoordiNations, networks of collectives that mutualize resources and engage in collective action. She emphasizes the importance of fostering cooperation and tackling global problems through decentralized governance. "A CoordiNation is not a community, a CoordiNation if anything is a community of communities. It's a network of collectives...And so everyone becomes more incentivized to contribute to the whole because they are all intertwined with one another." In this episode: - Collaborative economies - Governance by design - Plantoids - Legal recognition and regulation of DAOs - CoordiNations The Blockchain and the Law by Primavera de Filippi  Plantoids  DAO Model Law  Coordination  Primavera's CNRS research page Bergman Klein Center at Harvard COALA (Coalition of Automated Legal Applications) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

In this episode, TokenBrice discusses the challenges and shortcomings of DAO governance. He emphasizes the concept of governance minimization, where automation and incentivization are preferred over relying on governance which can be twisted to serve individual or external needs for profit. He talks about shortcomings of plutocratic DAOs but also shares his experience as a member of the GHO Liquidity Committee, raising concerns about the selection process for committee members or delegates - and the prevalence of conflicts of interest in DeFi DAO governance landscape with the rise of DAO politicians that aren’t much different to real world politicians. On the bright side, he talks about transparency & the ability to track funds as significant improvements to governance in the real world - but stands firmly behind the idea of governance minimization. The episode concludes with the introductions of the DeFi Collective, a nonprofit association supporting growth and resilience of DeFi protocols. Takeaways Governance minimization & automation Pitfalls & conflicts of interests in plutocracy & committees Professionalization of governance Conflicts of interest DAOs bleeding money Transparency and tracking of funds The DeFi Collective helping DeFi protocols for free The DeFi Collective TokeBrice Website TokenBrice Twitter Leaving GHO Committee blog post Aave Runway dashboard --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

In this episode, we're excited to welcome Sero, a key player in MetaGame, whose unique journey from a high school dropout to a tech and Web3 enthusiast offers a fresh perspective on self-learning, autonomy and the future of decentralized systems. Sero’s story is not just about overcoming traditional educational hurdles but also about finding his path in the dynamic and often challenging world of freelancing & Web3. His experience with various programming languages, his approach to learning, and his transition into MetaGame showcase a blend of determination, skill, and adaptability. - Sero’s unconventional educational journey and career experiences. - How the Odin project and COVID-19 led to a breakthrough in learning - Entry into the world of crypto through a DeFi project - Sero’s rank in MetaGame and his perspective on its working environment - Importance of a product mindset versus an open-source approach - MetaGame's culture, meritocracy, and financial sustainability - The role of autonomy & mentorship in personal & professional development "I always like to learn by myself and kind of be my own leader. It's about not wanting to waste my life... if I want to do something, I try at least. It's a habit that you have to build." We uncovered layers behind a self-taught tech enthusiast's journey. Sero’s story is a testament to the power of self-motivation, the importance of adapting to changing learning environments, and the potential impact of mentorship. Sero’s insights into MetaGame and the broader tech landscape provide valuable lessons for anyone navigating this dynamic space. Resources: The Odin Project Sero on Twitter Decentra Talks Podcast Serotonin Designs Blog --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

In this episode, we dive in with Trent Van Epps, a non-technical core contributor to Ethereum and the founder of Protocol Guild. Trent shares his journey from studying to be an architect to working at the Ethereum Foundation & founding the Protocol Guild. Currently serving on the Protocol Support team, overseeing network upgrades & maintenance; Trent highlights the need for non-technical people to make it all gel. He also outlines the decentralized governance & compensation mechanics of the Protocol Guild as well as the criticism he’s faced about it. "Time weighting is one of the most important aspects because we're able to sidestep a lot of the... things that members are responsible for managing." Overall, peth & Trent cover everything from the original Mist demo back in 2016 that got them both excited about Ethereum, all the way to the time-weighted compensation inside the Protocol Guild, contributor retention, decentralized protocol development funding, public goods, their favourite applications of Ethereum & their long term hopes for it. "I think there's still something to build, there's still a lot of work to do to shape this blockchain substrate that we're all constructing together." Key Topics: Mist Demo 2016 Architecture to Blockchain Transition Protocol Guild Initiative Decentralized Applications & Usecases Evolving Blockchain Design Protocol Guild Origins Funding Model Resources: Mist Demo Ethereum Foundation Protocol Guild Documentation EAS (Ethereum Attestation Service) Protocol Guild Website Trent Van Epps on Twitter Optimism Research Forum SourceCred --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

Hugi is an Icelandic entrepreneur & technologist involved in participatory political movements & decentralized organizations for over 15 years. He was a founding member of the Swedish Pirate Party, he helped build the participatory festival Borderland & currently works on open source platforms like Open Collective & Cobudget, empowering collaborative communities. Hugi shares his early experience co-founding the Swedish Pirate Party, one of the first political movements organised as an online swarm. After that, he got involved with the Borderland festival. He saw it as an experimental sandbox for new coordination methods in decentralized decision-making. Besides putting on the most decentralized festival for thousands of people, people of Borderland also built tools for doing so, one of which became Cobudget - an online tool for decentralized budgeting. He hopes for more cross-pollination between DAOs & civil society organizations. DAOs can learn governance models from 100-years of experience. On the other hand, DAOs need to start interacting with & prove real-world impact before being taken seriously by the 99%. He suggests people build web3 solutions for civil society needs, as a bridge between the spaces. “I realized that in a lot of these communities that are running open source software or DAOs, there's not a single person that has any experience from regular civil society organizations, because if they did, they would already have the blueprints in their heads of how this can look, because the blueprints are already there."  - Hugi Key Topics: Origins of the Swedish Pirate Party & swarm organizing Borderland festival as a decentralized sandbox Self-organization and emergent leadership Advice process for decentralized decision-making Participatory budgeting with Cobudget Learning from historic worker cooperatives Real-world impact and adoption challenges Bridging web3 and mainstream communities Technocratic elitism in web3 spaces Hybridizing DAOs and traditional nonprofits Resources: - Hugi Asgeirsson - Borderland - Cobudget - Open Collective - Swedish Pirate Party --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

This time we got Stephen Reid - a teacher, technologist and coach who is involved in a variety of projects related to web3, metacrisis, metamodernism, psychedelics & personal development. He has taught numerous courses including Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance, DAOs, Web3, and AI. Currently he is studying for a certificate in machine learning and artificial intelligence from UC Berkeley. Steven starts by describing his background and interests. He first became interested in metamodernism and the metacrisis around 2016-2017 by listening to thinkers like Daniel Schmachtenberger and Jordan Hall. He sees himself as a bridge builder between different communities like web3 and psychedelics that have more in common philosophically than people realize. Peth & Stephen discuss the concepts of metamodernism and the metacrisis. The metacrisis examines the common drivers behind global crises like climate change, inequality, and more. It's about systems thinking and understanding how everything is interconnected. Metamodernism focuses more on inner development of individuals with the idea that if more people are self-actualized, it will be easier to address systemic issues. Stephen shares his insights and experiences, exploring the interconnectedness of global challenges and how understanding underlying generator functions can pave the way to solving multiple crises simultaneously. Some key ideas covered: - The multipolar trap - how even good people can be driven to bad things when coordination systems fail. For example, countries not wanting to be the first to decarbonize their economy out of fear they'll fall behind competitively. - The importance of both inner development and compassion as well as designing better external coordination mechanisms. You need both personal growth and systemic solutions.- Concepts from integral theory & the book Reinventing Organizations - which distribute ownership and decision-making rather than having rigid hierarchies. - Practices like authentic relating that help groups attune to collective intelligence and make decisions together. They discuss the challenges of governance in DAOs. Having tokens be fully transferrable often leads to plutocracy, but more experiments are happening with reputation-based voting and other models. The goal is distributing power but avoiding the issues of both "one person one vote" and pure token-based control. He emphasizes the need for people in the web3 space to focus on how their work really contributes to human thriving, especially with the urgency of interconnected crises. Overall it was a wide-ranging conversation about systemic issues and personal growth. Metacrisis thinking is joined-up thinking, holistic, and systems thinking. It's about understanding the interventions in any domain and how they can affect other domains. We should create a culture where everyone is aware of the possibility of downstream consequences and takes responsibility for understanding and mitigating them - Steven Reed Key Topics: - Systems thinking and the meta-crisis - Coordination problems like multipolar traps - Inner development, compassion, and practices - Distributed ownership models for organizations - Projects related to the meta-crisis Resources: - Metacrisis XYZ - Reforge the Ring - Futurecraft residencies - Metamoderna - Reinventing Organizations book --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

In this episode, we welcome Zakku of Coordinape, a platform for decentralized compensation where people acknowledge & reward each other's contributions. An activist & a coordinator - Zach has a deep background in building, coordinating & advising networks for impact. His path took him to co-founding Converge before his interest in peer-to-peer collaboration led him to explore the potential of crypto, become an early contributor at Yearn & eventually start Coordinape. Inspired by decentralized compensation on a round table at Converge - Coordinape allows people to write their contributions for evaluation by peers. Each member receives 100 GIVE tokens to allocate to other members based on their contributions, then the funds get divided based on % of total GIVEs each member received. There’s a lot more to it & Zakku emphasizes the importance of communication & reflection throughout the whole process - but that’s it in a nutshell. Zach & peth dived into the challenges & opportunities of decentralized collaboration, discussing trade-offs of decentralization & efficiency, highlighting the need for context & cohesive team dynamics before going into the potential of AI to assist us. They brushed on the difficulties of founding software projects as non-technical people as well as other personal & interpersonal challenges inherent in online collaboration; In conclusion, Zakku & peth share similar beliefs in the potential of Web3 to create new systems, build better organizations & address societal issues. “Web3 offers the potential to create new systems rather than fighting against the old ones. We have the tools to do things better than default systems." Some of the topics: - The launch of CoSoul NFTs in Coorinape - Experience in activism, coordination & Converge - Using Coordinape for decentralized compensation - Challenges & advantages of decentralized collaboration - Importance of context & communication - Potential of AI in assisting DAOs - Future vision of Coordinape - Potential of Web3 & projects that make Zakku bullish "We're trying to use technology to solve what is fundamentally a social problem...difficulties in working this way require self-awareness, emotional intelligence & open communication." Resources: Coordinape Converge Impact Networks (book) How to Build Impact Networks (playbook) Cabin Krause House Quests --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

Malcolm & Intentions In this episode of the MetaView Podcast, we welcome Malcolm Ocean; a goal-setter, developer & a solopreneur who’s been building Intend for the better half of a decade. Reflecting on his own experience of realizing the power of setting intentions & pursuing values-aligned projects, Malcolm shares his journey of exploring intentionality & his motivation behind starting Intend and how it helps people gain clarity & realize their goals. His overall idea is that motivation is not something that needs to be forced but simply recognized & channeled, highlighting the importance of understanding what blocks or inhibits motivation. Why Intend He primarily built Intend for himself & his friends whom he was helping with goal-setting, but the thing quickly took off to become his primary source of income. Malcom also explores the differences between Intend, habit-tracking, and to-do apps, noting how Intend focuses on long term goals & fresh daily intentions rather than backlogged tasks or recurring habits. Qualitative reflections instead of metrics. Like most guests of MetaView, Malcolm emphasizes the importance of playing win-win games & creating collaborative cultures to maximize positive outcomes for everyone involved. Win-win Games & Self-energizing Teams Malcolm’s interest stretch far beyond Intend and into team dynamics, consciousness & culture. By showing people how to play better games, he believes that a shift towards collaborative cultures can lead to a more fulfilling and harmonious society. They go on to explore the idea of self-energizing teams, where individuals find collaborations that align with their own goals & where the motivation becomes effortless. Highlighting the importance of accountability & the role of financial stakes, the episode concludes with a reflection on the role of clearly set goals & the misconception that monetary incentives are the primary driver of motivation. "The moment you think you might want to get yourself to do something, you already have motivation to do it. Instead, focus on how to allow yourself to do it." Some of the topics Power of intentions Choosing goals & the importance of deciding what not to do Recognizing and channeling motivation Fractal reviews and the satisfaction of tracking progress Leveraging strengths & collaborations Self-energizing meta teams & effortless motivation The role of stakes in goal commitment The role of money in motivation Resources: The Goal-Crafting Intensive - workshop, starting soon Intend app Malcolm's Twitter Intend Philosophy The Meta-Protocol For Human Trust-Building A Collaborative Self-Energizing Meta-Team Vision (+two related vision pieces 1, 2) 4min Guided Meditation: Holding And Allowing An Intention Robert Keegan's book "An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization" Beeminder, StrongLifts, Runkeeper & Notion - apps mentioned --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

In this MetaView episode, peth talked to Rob Morris; a metamodernist, a game b player &  a serial entrepreneur since the dotcom era - currently running FunDAOmental & Prismatik as well as advising & investing in several other projects along the way. His passion for technology and people, cooperative coordination and the metacrisis led to a deep conversation on these topics & the role that technology plays for humanity to move towards more positive outcomes. “At a very high level I think that the way that humans get things done reflects what's advantageous in the environment that we find ourselves in and also in a broad sense reflects a gradual evolution of the perspectives that we collectively hold and how we approach things”, he says.  Some of the topics: Hierarchical coordination vs alignment based coordination Coordination by control vs Coordination by alignment SaaS software vs protocol style organizations Network effect vs protectionism and monopoly, economy of scale Coordination tension The Mathew effect Metacrisis & ways to address it Meeting people’s needs to enable collective action Sociocracy Coordination failures Resources: Rob Morris Twitter FunDAOmental Twitter Prismatik Twitter Prismatik Web Sociocracy The Death of Machiavelli by Rob Morris --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

Visa Veerasamy is a prolific writer and creator. With a large list of followers on twitter, he is known for crafting a web of curious exploratory threads as well for being the author of the books Friendly Ambitious Nerd & Introspect. On a mission to spark curiosity, creativity, and prolificacy in the digital age, he is knitting a global network and encouraging other people to chase their curiosity & make friends. Having grown up in libraries, he thinks of the internet as a grand one, a place with infinite possibilities where you can find people all over the world with the same interests and values. To find them he advises to create, share and dare to be bad at what you do when you’re starting, which will lead to form a cluster of great people thriving together. It sounds simple because it is - but he has a whole vision around how individuals simply following their interests & making friends will lead to great positive outcomes for the society as a whole, not just individuals doing so. Some of the topics: Becoming a friendly ambitious nerd Advice to younger people Identity vs Anonimity How to be a friendly ambitious nerd Why become a friendly ambitious nerd Good marketing Resources: Visa’s Twitter  Visa’s Web page  Friendly Ambitious Nerd Book  Introspect Book Visa’s Substack: voltaic verses --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

Simona Pop has been involved with the Ethereum community and DAOs since the early days and recalls the levels of enthusiasm and energy that made her get involved into many different projects in the ecosystem among which are co-founding Bounties Network and organizing Schelling Point, a unconference around coordination, regenerative economics and DeSci. She’s currently the Metagovernance Steward at ENS DAO - among other things. Some of the topics: Bounties Network Interoperability vs personal interest Biggest lessons over the years Creating initiation experiences Kernel mentorship Schelling Point & lessons learned Unconferences Biomimicry DAOs’ biggest problems Standardization & framework for DAOs Her project, Bounties Network, was about building a bounties platform as a protocol - interoperable. It was also possibly the first Web3 project incentivizing regeneration in the real world by putting bounties on things like beach cleanups. One of the constraints she encountered was the mentality of ownership over collective interests, which complicates the move towards interoperability. A mindset that must go through a process of unlearning to prioritize collaboration, one of her key takeaways from her years in the space. If you’ve been following Simona on twitter, you might have noticed she likes looking at collaboration & decentralization through the lens of biomimicry, which aims to emulate nature’s processes, forms and ecosystems from the awareness that we as humans are part of a greater network. In this sense she proposes standardization in DAO frameworks & communications, which would be a baseline and  a soil ready for planting that also allows navigation easily and that would organize the circuit of information, resource and decision making. Resources: Simona’s Twitter Schelling Point twitter Bounties Network ETH Global Twitter --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

In this episode of Share What You’re Making Chair & Bacon have a chat with Derrick Coleman, who is the community steward at Ethereum Denver as well as a regular contributor on Raid Guild, where his journey in Web3 began. From there he would make the bridge to his current role, taking care of the health of the community. An appropriate role for him considering it has been precisely the sense of community what has kept him in Web3. “The reason I'm in the space is because there are these communities of people that care for each other and look out for each other because of some shared values or goals. I'm not here for the libertarian not-your-keys-not-your-coin-get-off-my-property vibes. I'm here for the let's make an internet co-op so we can work together and have less extractive value systems sucking out whatever value we create for the sake of the shareholders”. With that in mind and a strong purpose on education, he’s been aligned with ETH Denver Ethos to buidl, to create the world we live in and shaping its tools and foundations; this is what excites him about bringing together the people and the technology in a cooperative of people that are incentivized to see each other succeed. “I care first and foremost about the buidling. The only thing you can do with Bitcoin is hold it, so maxis turned that into a meme; you can Hodl aka not sell, but over on Ethereum, which has a smart contract layer, it gets more interesting because you can build code on top of the machine, so instead of Hodl we Buidl interesting projects using that technology, so our entire ecosystem of buidlers buidling their projects is the key thing and the part I'm excited about”. Some of the topics: How he was onboarded to Web3 How he got into Raid guild and Sporkdao and ETH Denver His role on ETH Denver team Camp Buidl  His take on onboarding Code along with Derreck videos Lens merch stolen? ETH Denver reach Some lessons learned and ETH Denver 2024 Path to ETH Denver 2024 with Infinity Keys Buffycorn Ventures Projects that started at ETH Denver Resources: Derrek’s Twitter  Derrek’s Lens Raid Guild Twitter Raid Wild Web Code along with Derrek ETH Denver Twitter ETH Denver Web ETH Denver Youtube Channel SporkDAO Twitter SporkDAO Web Spork DAO Discord Infinity Keys Web Welook Web3 Social Platform  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

On this episode of Frontiers of Coordination Peth welcomes artist, philosopher and researcher Travis Wyche. After a couple of years in the Web3 space he considers himself a more culturally focused contributor rather than a technical person even when he spends part of his time doing a variety of research on UXs and developing UI design. The fact is that the interweaving of his skills and interests led to Pluriverse, a transmedia lorecrafting experiment in collective imagineering. Screaming at punk shows was his first approach to the Moloch meme. Later in life when he entered Web3 he would connect it to Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl, an event that in a way funneled him down a rabbit hole of connecting these cultural influences with the technical game theory of coordination. That is what attracted him to the space in the first place: “I'm not really a Degen; I didn't get drawn into crypto through DeFi or anything like that, through the tokens really at all, but more of the high level philosophy, politics, the various kinds of connections to things in my own background as an artist, as a musician, as a community organizer, as an anarchist, as an aging punk. All those kinds of cultural affinities are what brought me in”. It's from that perspective that he appreciates the meaning of the Moloch meme, known as the god of coordination failure while also associated with child sacrifice among other things. For him,it’s an image that serves as a “memetic filter” for people to understand the potency that image creates for a “community first” kind of orientation.  Some of the topics: His origins in the space The rise and fall of the Moloch meme Moloch memetic filter Individual mindshift for successful coordination WTF is Pluriverse Pluriverse current projects Genres, themes and characters in Pluriverse Regen in the space Regen beyond crypto MetaCrisis Intentional communities A.I. Resources: DAOHaus Twitter  DAO Haus Web Pluriverse twitter  Pluriverse Web  MolochDAO website  MolochDAO twitter   MetaCartel twitter MetaCartel website  Allen Ginsberg poem Howl  GreenPill Website GreenPill Podcast  Kevin Owoki Twitter --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

Will Ruddick is an econo-optimist; in his words. A physicist that got into economics. Experiences such as being in the Peace Corps helped shape his vision around using technology for mutual credit on community groups coming together to produce mutual aid for each other. So he founded Grassroots Economics, a non-profit foundation developing economic empowerment to help communities realize and share their abundance. In this episode he shares with Peth his motivations and experiences with the project. The proposal is to have communities form a type of agreement on their means of exchange, goods and services that are redeemable from vouchers that can be used in or out of the community. Through blockchain, these vouchers have an expiration built in and the contract holds the legal instruments for it. This type of exchange is actually similar with traditional systems, which in Kenya have not only a rich history but 42 different names to refer to. For Ruddick this is a basic use case of blockchain that allows creating endogenous instruments in an association. However, in his opinion, for it to succeed there needs to be liability. “When I read the Bitcoin whitepaper and they talk about community currencies this is what I think they're talking about and historically if you look at a lot of the community currency research and all these examples over the years, the ones that were very successful had clear liability; it was clear who was backing this vouchers with what services”.  Some of the topics: How he started Grassroots Economics How does Grassroots Economics work Adoption of the tech in these communities Workshops for collective vision Blockchain for accountability Limited and trackable liability Grassroots Economics spread and outreach  Sustainability Toughest part on his journey Hopes for the future Resources: Will Ruddick’s Twitter Grassroots Economics Grassroots Economics Twitter Peace Corps Web Page Elinor Ostrom Books Valora App Web Valora App Twitter --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

Brandon Norgaard is a researcher, writer and founder of the Enlightened Worldview, a project described in short as a quest to promote peace through societal understanding and inner awareness. In this episode he shares with Peth about the perks of building an organization that will help people improve self-awareness and mindfulness.  Norgaard explains the project seeks to “promote a new enlightenment”, implementing the premises given in Hanzi Freinacht books The Listening Society and Nordic Ideology and based on Game B as well as “Bildung”, a concept that refers to how individuals and groups of people learn and thrive through education and personal development to cultivate skills, habits and values that contribute to society.  This would be made possible through software development to encourage people to come together, have leadership structures and coordinate local face-to-face events and networks structured to strengthen communities, improve their quality of life and add value. “There's a way to do it that is entertaining to people while they are also getting sense making and awareness capabilities and meeting spirituality by being a part of these communities and these circles”, he says. “What gives me hope  is looking at local Game Change, local developments of community circles, a deeper integration across aspects of public life and social experiments in that regard and using technology to benefit people's lives”. Timestamp for video: 32:42 - 33:55 Some of the topics: What is Enlightened Worldview Metamodern Hackers Collective Adult lifelong learning Enlightenment Worldview platform Artificial Intelligence WTF is Game B WTF is Metamodernism  Relationship between Game B & Metamodernism Downtown San Francisco homelessness issue Local game change and development of communities and circles His advice to MetaGame Resources: Enlightened Worldview project twitter Enlightened Worldview project website Brandon Norgaard on Facebook Lene Rachel Andersen on Twitter Lene Rachel Andersen’s book Bildung: Keep Growing (2020) The Archdisciplinary Research Center  Gregg Henriques’ Unified Theory of Knowledge Roy Bhaskar’s Critical realism and the ontology of persons Ken Wilbers’s Integral Theory The Listening Society Nordic Ideology 12 Commandments: For Extraordinary People To Master Ordinary Life Hanzi Feinacht books: The Listening Society Nordic Ideology 12 Commandments: For Extraordinary People To Master Ordinary Life --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message

Jim Rutt remembers his days as a businessman, CEO of Network Solutions and CTO of Thomson-Reuters. When he retired in 2001 he went back to his original love: science. He then started working with the Santa Fe Institute as a researcher -where he met Jordan Hall- and eventually became the chairman. It was 2012 when he and some friends started the social movement and philosophical set of ideas known today as Game B.  In this episode Rutt and Peth dive deep into the movement that aims to create the social operating system for the future, from the early attempts as the Emancipation Party to the current state and possible scenarios. Rutt recognizes the damage caused by Game A's exponential growth approach of the world while he also acknowledges the process of “bottom-up” culturalization that has to take place first for Game B to succeed. “The Game B turn is to do two things. One is to develop a way of living in the world that fully honors our natural world and actually helps it regenerate from some of the harm that's been done in the late stages of Game A, and does it in a way that is organized around increasing human well-being and puts human well-being central”. Some of the topics Complexity science Game A Background WTF is Game B? Mental Health crisis Network technologies Building growth inwards vs macro growth Game B Communities Face-to-face aspect of Game B Consumption ratings in the western world Failure modes of game B Roles in the Game B community Bad attractors or scenarios Resources: Jim Rutt’s twitter  Jim Rutt’s essay In search of the 5th attractor Jim Rutt’s on Medium  Jim Rutt’s Show GameB.org Santa Fe Institute Network Wars  An Initiation to Game B Film  Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy  #GameB  Emancipation Party Website  Research and further reading  Jordan Hall  Jamie Wheal  Jamie Wheal’s Recapture the rapture --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/metagame/message