2026-03-31
Bootstrapping the Social Layer
An embryonic project must be incubated in an environment with the resource surplus to sustain it.
connection between people is important
- resources transfer socially
- we can create value simply by connecting
thought experiment
- why can't we work together?
- we have immense resources
- but society appears to be crumbling
- and it feels out of control
- at a macro level, we are investing our resources badly
- one way to conceptualize the problem: we fail to connect resources to needs
digital self-sufficiency
- we used to curate and control our own social networks
- because the overhead became onerous, we've relied on third parties to manage our social networks for us.