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Now, however, the emerging technology of crypto and web3 — specifically, programmable blockchains, composable smart contracts, and digital assets — makes it possible for decentralized systems to achieve unprecedented levels of coordination and operational functionality. This evolution enables new forms of governance and organizations, community-owned-and-operated networks and services, robust economies, and countless other innovations.
Decentralization for Web3 Builders: Principles, Models, How
future.a16z.com
This brings us back to the Harvard Study, and an important question about its ethnic makeup: How could the lives of White men like John, Leo, and Henry, men who grew up in America in the middle of the twentieth century, have anything to say about modern women or people of color, about people from entirely different countries, cultures, and backgrounds? Aren’t the findings of the Harvard Study only relevant to the demographics of its participants?
The Good Life
Robert J. Waldinger and Marc Schulz Ph.D
Patriarchy as a system has denied males access to full emotional well-being, which is not the same as feeling rewarded, successful, or powerful because of one’s capacity to assert control over others.
The Will to Change
bell hooks
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