“What’s culturally relevant is valuable to own”
Finn, Folklore Member
Welcome back! It’s been a long few months and we continue to read and discuss together about online culture, communities, and how they are influencing our lives.
As of today, we’ve curated 200 pieces of content. The running list is available here in a google spreadsheet
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This week we will publish our first essay by our own community member Finn. Funds from the Writing NFTs will be split between Finn and the Folklore Community Treasury
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Our community has curated over 200 pieces of content over the past 6 months. And in the Forum, we’ve had the opportunity to learn together. Here are a few choice quotes from our dialogue.
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labyrinths never go anywhere. the labyrinth is always exactly where it is and how it is, and there's only one entry and it's also the exit. no matter where you go in a labyrinth, you always end the journey exactly where the journey started.
Cathedrals are more dynamic. there are various rooms, interconnected hallways, and multiple entries and exits. there are options, which is very much... like... the interior of a labyrinth... right? a lot of decisions.
Entering a room in a cathedral though? only one entry/exit. so that's a labyrinth. whatever story is told in that room has to return to how it began…
Tactics are what works in the meta, but might not work tomorrow—i.e. tips on running Facebook Ads or how to launch a PFP NFT collection. And the meta creates imitation because it works quickly.
Principles are timeless, i.e. focusing your startup on a hyper-specific use case before scaling it. Use of principles can create a meta and let you reap big rewards from that innovation…
One way to maintain a common purpose and group cohesion in larger groups is by defining a strong sense of shared identity with a clear and reiterated purpose, or even a collective mythology…
Beauty in a digital is more about the bones than the skin, more about structure and less about facades, more about content than styles…
Everything online has some stamp of human on it. In a similar way cities are full of right angles (a human invention), there are a lot of proverbial right angles online. In nature, a true right angle doesn’t exist…
perhaps the 'compulsion for production' means that we enjoy solving puzzles that we can see (forward motion) and activation of visual senses… in the coming years as we experiment with how to create greater depth of experiences complemented by digital tech, we might be able to recapture the art of leisure not just as an activity but as a mindset….
Software is only half of the game. The other half is trained cybrarians, knowledge gardeners, and knowledge ecologists…
The battle for “cozy internet” has just begun…
Community management is a kind of infinite scroll where, whether you want or mean it or not, you come to be a node - and it’s hard to boundary that feeling & the privilege / complexity of that position into what we call a job…
The hyper financialization mindset of web3 makes for the hyper productization of community as most peoples moats in web3…