A story about discovering community, a mind-warping internet paradigm and a global network of unconventional software engineers. — The past two years have been full of turmoil, adaptation and unavoidable uncertainty, for all of us. COVID has undoubtedly been the most intense acute crisis those of us privileged enough to live in the developed world have collectively faced in recent times. For all the ups and downs, when…

Welcome back! We hope you’ve been enjoying these deep dives into a new paradigm for understanding currencies and the role they can play in directing our collective behaviour. In Part One, we explored different models for understanding human motivations and why currency designers need to consider the level of moral…

Welcome back to our series on currency design theory! In Part 1, we explored some of the incentive structures that make up our collective behaviour and how these relate to a broader understanding of currency. …

As was laid out in About Living Systems Network-Part I, the Living Systems Network, or “LSN”, is made up of several project nodes, one of which is our alternative currency node — “cocurrency”. As part of our efforts to expand our cocurrency node, we are researching work done by a…

This is an adaptation of an article I wrote specifically for my old high school, Pemberton Secondary School. I think the advice is applicable for all young people and so I decided to adapt it slightly and share it here. …

I remember that dreadful feeling. It always resurfaced at the beginning of each semester while my profs outlined their syllabuses and reviewed prerequisite material from previous courses — sometimes material from the most recent semester — and they would say something along the lines of: “You should all remember this…

Click click boom, down the rabbit hole Here we go, a whole generation living the Truman Show No control over the feed you see, feeding humanity to the machinery … A likely reason you are reading this essay is because a social media algorithm decided to place it in your…

Our brains are terrible at storing information. Luckily, we have devised clever ways of externalizing our thought so we don’t have to rely on our memory as much. To name a few, we write down to-do lists to remember our groceries, use calendars to remember events and birthday, and we…

If you have a computer and/or a phone, you likely consume an excessive amount of content everyday. It could be YouTube videos, school lectures, articles, books, movies, TV shows, websites sent by a friend, tic tocs, memes, and really anything that communicates a message.