Published in Living Systems Network·Dec 7, 2021Currencies as a Catalyst for Cultural Evolution (Part 3): Holochain and the Bigger PictureWelcome 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…Cryptocurrency27 min read
Published in Living Systems Network·Aug 18, 2021Currencies as a Catalyst for Cultural Evolution (Part 2): Reimagining Currency in the Information EconomyWelcome 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. …Currency19 min read
Published in Living Systems Network·Jul 22, 2021Currencies as a Catalyst for Cultural Evolution (Part 1): Patterns of Social OrganizationAs 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…Currency12 min read
Jun 20, 2021Guiding Principles for the 21st Century: what I wish I knew in high schoolThis 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. …Life Lessons11 min read
Jun 1, 2021Becoming an Exponential Learner: navigate oceans of knowledge and build towers of understandingI 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…Exponential Technology9 min read
Mar 19, 2021A Practical Guide to Minimizing Big Tech Manipulation and Fostering Intellectual DevelopmentClick 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…Attention Economy19 min read
Jan 30, 2021Zettelkasten: networked note-taking for naturally networked thoughtOur 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…Zettelkasten7 min read
Jan 12, 2021Getting Started with Personal Knowledge ManagementIf 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.Pkm9 min read
Nov 22, 2020Matter-Energy Metapattern HyperliteracyThis article is my submission to the student competition portion of ‘The Future of Text’ book (there is a free pdf and epub version, alternatively, it is available on amazon for purchase as a paperback or kindle version). It was chosen, in addition to many other student submissions, as a…Tools For Thought5 min read
May 30, 2019Addressing Technological DisruptionWe live in an amazing world — that truly is an understatement. …Technology5 min read