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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

3 years

fixed it for you

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

Real conversation I had at ETHDenver Me: “We’re Cabin, a DAO building a decentralized city. Our first node is a 28 acre property outside of Austin, TX where we host retreats and residencies.” Cryptobro: “wait, so which metaverse is this in?”

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

95% of NFTs are money grabs, jokes, and experiments that will collectively be worth $0. The other 5% will create a composable layer of ownership that shapes the future.

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

the biggest gap in web3 is what made web2 work: communication - there’s no native messaging for blockchain addresses - DAOs grudgingly use discord - our social graph lives on twitter - it’s hard to retain users without email addresses web3 will struggle until we solve this

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

3 years

If you’re over 30 and don’t get why all the kids are talking about web3: - set up an ETH address (just google it) - reply with it here - we’ll airdrop your first crypto $BOOMER tokens

Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

3 years

@flexxchapman @0xZakk OK this is no longer a joke, we’re minting this in NYC next week I nominate @David_Hillis and @onecaseman for airdrops

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

If you are young and ambitious, join a DAO Actually…research 20 DAOs, join 5 DAOs, and then pick 1-2 that deeply resonate and contribute to them No other path will allow someone, regardless of background, to convert effective proof of work into career opportunities faster

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

reasons why people don't like web3

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

@sferik it's really the Four Seasons Total Landscaping shirt that ties this tweet together

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 year

for anyone who thinks DAOs were just a fad: prepare yourself to be surprised over the next 18 months as composable web3 social legos start rapidly coming together and enabling auto-magical coordination, identity, and reputation I'm getting an early glimpse and its beautiful

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

DAOs are divergent: good for exploring edges, trying new things, iteratively innovating Companies are convergent: good for executing on a specific, well-defined task The most successful DAOs will be composable networks of DAOs and companies, structured like economies

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

The first prototypes of the @creatorcabins passport card Embedded with a chip that holds the private key to unlock IRL experiences and spaces at Cabin:

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

9 months

just picked up our first @DeGodsNFT via Mint Club after meeting @frankdegods this week, I am bullish on his commitment to building a world-class internet native community

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@frankdegods

9 months

Also ended up spending hours talking with @WillPapper , @JonathanHillis , @fifthworldzach , and @joey_debruin . One of my favorite conversations of the year. There are still so many smart people in this ecosystem still here and creating incredible things.

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

Blockchains are better immutable public ledgers, not more efficient databases Ethereum is a better shared state computer, not a more performant CPU DAOs are better for emergent coordination among strangers, not single-focused execution Use the tools for what they’re good at

nader dabit

@dabit3

2 years

People will point to blockchain technology & argue its inefficiencies when compared to traditional high throughput databases. The real comparison should be between highly inefficient & expensive intermediaries like banks, lawyers, art brokers, governments, & stock exchanges.

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

If you want to create a successful DAO, spend less time on tokenomics and more time creating a shared sense of belonging, play, love, acceptance

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

the unfortunate reality of VC funding is that there are currently lots of teams that have never worked on DAOs trying to build tools for DAOs building "DAO tools" without context or direction is as meaningless as saying you want to build "company tools" what? why? for who?

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@thattallguy

2 years

We need more DAOs, not more DAO tools ...

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

Just spent a magical weekend with 60 of the biggest gigabrains and gigahearts of web3 at DAO Camp 🏕 Came back to a timeline of doom and gloom as markets collapse, but I’m feeling nothing but joy and excitement about the future we’re building

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

9 months

friend tech is a sketchy side loaded buggy app with dark UX patterns that demonstrates how broken crypto onboarding still is, has no purpose besides degen speculation, and is driving short-term engagement from airdrop farming is this really the best we can do as an industry?

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

3 years

I wrote a new essay about the future of decentralized, internet-enabled cities and why I'm building cabins for independent online creators in the Texas Hill Country.

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

Ken loses $43.5M and cements his position as the villain of the internet We demonstrated the value of DAOs and have a strong community that wants to reinvest a war chest Who won?

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

Which VC fund most deeply understands DAOs?

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

any good examples of clear, simple documentation for a DAO's governance structure?

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

can someone, anyone, please explain to me why I occasionally procrastinate for months and then make a single 3 minute phone call and solve the problem

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

I'm no economist, but maaaaaybe if a bunch of bankers changing a cell in their spreadsheets by 0.5% causes the entire market to collapse, we aren't working with a super resilient system?

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

some of my favorite people in web2 are the ones most skeptical of web3 I get it: scams, gas fees, bad UX, regulatory uncertainty we just have to keep building real use cases and welcoming them with open arms when they finally show up to help build

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

22 days

I recently asked a big group of friends in their 30s: who wants kids in the future? One person said yes A few said maybe (if the stars align), most said no Possible my friend group is biased, but I think people are underestimating the potential impending demographic collapse

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

3 years

We need a DAO operating system that integrates: • token crowdfunding • token gated membership • multi-sig treasury • governance & voting • community discussion • knowledge management • tasks, specs, and bounties • code version control who is building this?

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

how do you get the wisdom of your 30s, the unbridled energy of your 20s, and the carefree joy of your teens all at the same time?

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

9 months

to build consumer crypto in 2023, you have to either: 1/ go fully onchain native 2/ completely abstract it away the middle ground is dying

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

So many people dream of getting their squad together and building a place to live, but the barriers to doing it are too high Cabin now offers the full package to help make your squad wealth dreams a reality

Your Squad Buys Property (w/ Help from Cabin)

Looking to buy a property with your squad with help from Cabin? Fill out this form. Curious about this whole co-buying thing? Read on.

creators.mirror.xyz

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

4 months

there's this narrative that DAOs have "failed" we are trying to create incorruptible organizations capable to replacing broad societal institutions it's going to take more than a couple years of half assed experiments to figure this out

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 year

To the gigabrains and gigahearts of DAO Camp 2023: thank you for another wonderful year of coherence and connection 🤝🏕️☀️

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

I've enjoyed looking at the Seed Club applications, but I wish there was more weird stuff coming through for SC05. If you have a crazy, weird, out-there idea for a tokenized community, apply now and let me know so I can boost your application.

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

3 years

🚀 CabinDAO is live! 🪙 We crowdfunded >15 ETH for creator residencies 🧑‍🎨 We want to bring the first 12 creators out for one-month stays @creatorcabins 🏘️ If you're a $CABIN holder, you can slide into our Discord to discuss the plan. See you there : )

CabinDAO creator residency program proposal

This is a proposal for structuring the creator residency program crowdfunded by CabinDAO. We will publish CabinDAO governance proposals publicly.

creators.mirror.xyz

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

I wrote a new article about how DAOs are uniquely capable of turning memes into money, money into communities, and communities into perpetual hyperstructures

Memes of Production: DAOs as Financial Flash Mobs and Hyperstruc…

There are two types of DAOs that seem to be gaining traction: financial flash mobs and hyperstructures. Each taps into a unique quality of DAOs that isn’t feasible via traditional corporate structu...

creators.mirror.xyz

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 year

so proud of this community. we are building the future we want to live in. come join us.

Cabin

@cabindotcity

1 year

Today, we are launching Cabin’s network city. Our network city is a set of globally-distributed properties designed for remote workers and creators who love nature.

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

3 years

Some personal news, as they say: I'm joining @reforge as an Executive in Residence! Excited to be a part of their incredible community, learn alongside some of the best and brightest in the industry, and continue to have the time & space to pursue my own projects

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

10 months

Two DAO death announcements today. Both were trailblazing leaders over the past few years. Lots of others are abandoned zombies, even if not officially dead yet. Many more will follow. And from their ashes and learnings, new internet native organizations will rise.

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

listening to @balajis give a lecture about network states in VR to a room full of international thinkers and builders probably nothing

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 year

We're officially announcing Seed Club Ventures! we've been stealth investing as a venture DAO in projects like Lens, Metalabel, Stability AI, Guild, and Cabin proud to be an advisor to the fund doing the most to support internet native communities and the tools that power them

scv

@seedclubvc

1 year

Today, we are excited to come out of ’stealth’ and officially announce ourselves. Hello world, we are Seed Club Ventures, a $25M venture DAO investing in a world of internet-native organizations 🌱 What are we up to? Read on ↓

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

I just purchased over 25 tons of rock, including this giant stack of flagstone, for @creatorcabins Build Week👷⚒️

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

People think DAOs are about decentralization, but the under-rated feature is open organizational design: 1. anyone can check out the vibes 2. information is accessible and transparent 3. people can manifest roles through proof-of-work flips the whole idea of jobs on its head

Redefined Life ❤️‍🔥 Epic Sauna

@redefined_life

2 years

You can't show up uninvited at Google, sit in on their meetings, check the vibe, get paid to contribute to a few projects, and then decide whether to commit full-time. You can with DAOs.

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 year

Vitalik kicking off the New Cities and Network States conference at Zuzalu

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

3 years

Thinking about spinning up a job board for DAO gigs For web2 people: an easy way to dip their toes into DAOs via freelancing For DAOs: a way to expand the network of contributors beyond the core DAO crowd maybe the job board could even be a DAO? what do you think?

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 year

a common metaphor for DAOs over the past few years has been "subreddits with a shared bank account" subreddits now offer built-in DAO infra 👀

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 year

NETWORK STATES vs. NETWORK CITIES a thread on some of the differences between Balaji's definition of a network state and how we're building a network city at Cabin

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 month

people deride DAOs as "group chats with a shared bank account" but that actually sounds like a killer product if normies could use it

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

3 months

Want to build a new city or network state? Here's a playbook: Supper, place, village, city, state

Supper, place, village, city, state

There's a basic playbook for building startup societies. It goes: supper, place, village, city, state. You start with dinner, and coordinate your way to something bigger. Over time, you can grow...

words.jonhillis.com

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

sorry not sorry for doing a @creatorcabins Crypto Boy verse with @lauren_a_hillis

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 year

one of the most important crypto metrics few people ever look at: multi-sig transactions as long as more people are coordinating on-chain more frequently, I'm bullish 🐮

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

a DAO buying giant advertisements featuring a picture of the founder is the most cringe thing I've seen in web3 recently, and that's really saying something

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 year

Among Seed Club's top/featured DAOs, there are zero with DAO in the name:

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

one of the highest leverage things you can do is identify people who you believe in that the world hasn't discovered yet and find ways to invest in them

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

3 years

“groups of writers getting paid below market rate to have their words edited by an oligopoly of heirs that print those words on physical paper” ...is an interesting definition of the cornerstone of democracy

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

5 months

One of my best friends and I had our sons a week apart and there is simply nothing better than becoming a parent alongside your friends

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 year

We're launching Hydra Ventures, the first investment DAO for investing in investment DAOs it's built on the fact that DAOs are uniquely good at: 1) sourcing information and resources from broad networks 2) allocating capital collectively 3) spinning off fractal meta-structures

Hydra Ventures

@HydraVentures_

1 year

We are proud to announce the summoning of Hydra Ventures, the first dedicated investment DAO fund of funds. With over $10m raised & ready to deploy, we're excited to back the next generation of early-stage investment DAOs.

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

We’ve taken specialization and comparative advantage too far The result is fragile monoculture across society and an associated emptiness of purpose Fix your appliances Grow some food Nurture local nature Cosmopolitan localism is a path back to meaning and resilience

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

6 months

From Balaji's opener to Grin's deep dive, Cabin has been prominently featured at the Network State Conference Our community should be proud of what we've accomplished as we build the first network city

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

Crypto —> web3 was the greatest rebrand of the last decade That said, web3 is bound to become an interminable hellishly cringe corporate buzzword

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

Web 2 > Web 3

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 month

In an effort to build a stronger network of families in our neighborhood, @lauren_a_hillis and I hosted Saturday morning coffee and donuts in the park near our house what we did, how it worked, and what we learned below...

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 year

all I want is a scifi novel with a plausible story line for how the following trends intersect in the next 50 years: • artificial intelligence • climate change • blockchains • augmented reality • fertility collapse

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

Be wary of any functional team larger than the first row. Geometric growth in communication complexity is rarely worth it.

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@xyzcharlize

2 years

gm! Beautiful connections!

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

Tired: zoom meetings Wired: walking meetings Inspired: trail building meetings

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

When a DAO is made up of other DAOs, how should the economic relationship between the DAOs be structured?

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

Since @tpotvibecamp is at my childhood summer camp, I will be giving a walking tour of places where: • a lifeguard jumped in to save me after a 30 ft belly flop • I cried to "The First Cut is the Deepest" post-heartbreak • all of my shoes were thrown into the lake by a bully

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@JonathanHillis

2 years

“there is a room for some kind of startup society right now; there's a lot of demand for a physical community oriented around particular values … that combines with a pragmatic need to escape the high living costs of the US” ⁦ @VitalikButerin ⁩

Interview: Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum

In which we talk about the big shifts in crypto.

www.noahpinion.blog

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

7 months

As we prepare to have a baby in California, my parents just mailed us a box of dirt from Texas to put under the delivery bed so that our son can be "born on Texas soil" 😂🤠

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

3 years

We're excited to announce a crowdfund for one year of residencies @creatorcabins ! It's an experiment in universal creator income, tech stacks for decentralized cities, and the physical manifestation of DAOs. Learn more and contribute here:

Crowdfunding creator residencies at our $CABIN

🚨 Update: Wow! We have been floored by the positive response to this crowdfund. Thank you to those who have contributed and joined CabinDAO.

creators.mirror.xyz

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

9 months

What book would you nominate as the solarpunk manifesto? I think I might choose Buckminster Fuller’s Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth Written in 1969 (!) it provides a visionary framework for building towards global abundance for humans and the environment

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 year

Cabin's secret sauce is an abundance of incredible humans

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

3 years

Who is building crypto wallets that look and feel like a video game? • sign a transaction to claim the account • design & customize your base avatar • add tokens for skins & accessories • display your treasure chest of NFTs, social tokens, etc

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 year

@darrenmarble A VC fund with a thesis of investing in founders who started a company after taking a hero dose and seeing the future. Could be the next big thing.

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

5 months

You can now build six dwellings for unrelated people on an 11,500 sq foot lot anywhere in Austin Austin just became one of the best places in America to create a coliving compound with your friends

Joshua Fechter 📝

@JoshuaFechter

5 months

JUST IN: Austin will now allow duplexes & triplexes to be built nearly anywhere single-family homes are allowed in a bid by city officials to curtail the city's housing affordability crisis @TexasTribune #txlege

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

tweeting for public verification that I am one of the 13 signers of the @ConstitutionDAO multi-sig 📜WAGBTC📜

ConstitutionDAO (📜, 📜)

@ConstitutionDAO

2 years

On June 21st, 1788, the Constitution became the law of the land when it was ratified by the 9th of the 13 original states. In keeping with this tradition, the Constitution DAO multi-sig wallet requires 9 out of 13 signatures to approve transactions.

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

7 months

Just got home from a 3 day trip around Colorado scouting potential village locations with @levin_phil We visited and evaluated a wide range of urban and rural environments for raising families. Write up coming soon!

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

your periodic reminder that anyone can launch tokens, mint NFTs, auction them, start a DAO, split crypto assets, run a token-voted application process, and more @viamirror without writing any code

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

Tired: building loose ties at IRL conferences Wired: building loose ties in digital communities Inspired: small IRL gatherings of digital connections

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

just used @PartyRound for the first time for an investment. super slick and easy. now do crypto plz 🙏

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 year

this is now an Elinor Ostrom meme account

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

For my role as an EIR at Reforge, I put together a presentation titled "WTF is web3?" with a high-level summary of what I see as the biggest opportunities and challenges in the emerging ecosystem. Sharing here in the name of building in public:

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

This is what takes web3 mainstream: great wallet UX and virtually free transaction costs You don’t think about TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP, or SMTP when you use the internet You won’t think about blockchains, roll ups, zk snarks, or gas when you use web3 in the future

nis.eth

@Iiterature

2 years

the next gen web3 wallet will use one seed phrase and automatically support all chains/layers. it won't require the user to manually switch networks, it will know what network to use based on the app its interacting with bridging assets will be seamless and abstracted

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

A year ago, I left Instacart to go build a cabin in the woods I had a loose, crazy idea of what it could turn into, but the past year has wildly exceeded my expectations So grateful for everyone who has been a part of the adventure—hard to imagine where we'll be in 5 years!

Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

3 years

After a life-changing 5.5 years at @Instacart , I’m leaving to pursue my own independent projects. I went to the office today to pick up my stuff and took a long walk around the empty building, soaking in the memories. I snapped this selfie at one of my old desks circa 2017...

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

11 months

Ironically, I think the source of most people’s loneliness is too many people Too much time on crowded social media and in crowded cities Not enough time in cozy corners of the internet and small coliving communities

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 year

TIL about "associated states" like Palau, which maintains sovereignty while outsourcing military protection to the United States seems like a strong model and international legal precedent for how network cities and states could develop

Balaji

@balajis

1 year

First head of state on the Network State podcast! Palau is a tiny island state with less than 20,000 citizens. Yet this tropical paradise is a full UN member and tech pioneer. Now, the President of Palau joins me to talk about digital identity and Palau’s path to sovereignty.

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

5 months

there are VCs who write a check and then you never hear from them again there are others who write the first check, review your strategy docs, provide hard-hitting feedback, refer contributors, and send you meals when you have a newborn founders, find yourself a @JuliaLipton

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

9 months

can I say something without people getting mad... if public goods are good and climate change is bad then taking profits from a climate change producer and funneling them to quadratically funded public goods grants to help solve climate change is...probably good?

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

a 2x2 matrix on DAO leadership:

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

people want one thing and it’s living in walkable neighborhoods near friends that give them social and intellectual nourishment

ariel

@arielsonline

2 years

moving out the university town you’ve lived in for 5 years is absolutely heart wrenching

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 year

[Coming back through US immigration in Newark] OFFICER: what were you doing in Montenegro? ME: I was there for a conference OFFICER: what kind of conference? ME: *quietly wondering how to try to explain this* … I work in tech … OFFICER: have a nice day

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

6 months

I’m not headed to the Network State conference because @lauren_a_hillis and I have a baby boy arriving any day Wouldn’t trade that for anything, but wish I could be there with the crew of amazing founders bringing this ecosystem to life @grin_io will be repping Cabin onstage!

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

my primary investment strategy is buying for the long-term and then remaining hopelessly unaware of what the price of anything is

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

I spent the holidays writing a brief history of the evolution of centralization and decentralization across the major eras of Western civilization the goal was to look to the past for patterns that help explain where we seem to be headed next

A brief history of decentralized cities and centralized states

Once in a while, in the long arc of civilization, a new set of coordination technologies come along and change everything. By allowing small groups of humans to better cooperate in the collective...

creators.mirror.xyz

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 year

The ghost town of Lobo, TX — just south of Van Horn, home of the Blue Origin rocket launch facility — is for sale Asking price is $100k (seller financed!) as long you have a vision to do something cool with it …like starting a Cabin neighborhood

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

While this is a disappointing outcome, I'm incredibly proud of the team & community that came together to make this possible We have seen a glimpse of the future of online coordination and it is bright

ConstitutionDAO (📜, 📜)

@ConstitutionDAO

2 years

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

3 years

everyone I’ve been hanging with at is talking about how the “lame panels + rave parties” vibe at conferences sucks. Let’s do something better and completely different. Once we all have some time to recover… DAO summer camp style conference? 🏕

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

1 year

what if, and I know this is a big ask, we built the next bull cycle around real value instead of meme coins?

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

Proof of work has meant using copious amounts of energy to perform math problems What if blockchains in the future were secured by proof of productive public goods? Real examples: providing internet, mapping spaces, sequestering carbon

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

1 is getting fixed with proof of stake 2 is an educational problem that gets better 3 is a big social problem without clear solutions 4 is a big technical problem that won't go away 5 is a big cultural problem to solve 6 is just classic early cycle 7 is our chance for humility

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

2 years

everyone is underestimating web3 because they think it's about new internet money

Aaron Wright

@awrigh01

2 years

The core use case of Ethereum is not the transfer of assets. Its coordination.

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Jon Hillis (🏕️,🏘️,🌆)

@JonathanHillis

8 months

🥕 on the day of Instacart's IPO, a few fond memories from my time there 🥕 • Waking up at 5am every day in my first role to scroll through status pages and manually batch orders, route shoppers, and manage delivery options before we had automated them • Carrying a corporate…

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