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Cognitive overload
There are limits to how much the human brain can process. Dunbar’s number is the notorious limit for how many social relationships the human brain can manage, but “DAObar’s number” is the DAO version of that: how many DAOs can a person be meaningfully involved in? Each subsequent DAO involvement is an increase in the processing power needed to maintain context and awareness of everything going on. DAO tooling for communication and collaboration (discussed above) will attempt to mitigate this, but people may struggle with the extra overload.
The Future of Work Is Not Corporate — It's DAOs and Crypto Networks | Future
future.a16z.com
A question that underlies this piece is whether you’re pursuing status or financial success when starting a company. Pursuing an unsexy business will give you very little status while building it. Whereas, sexy businesses pay handsomely in status. For many founders, the status compensation far outweighs the financial. This is a topic that I’d like to write about more in the future.
Software Ate All the Easy Shit
andrewrea.substack.com
The issue of independence, Franklin pointedly replied, had already been settled back in 1776. Britain should simply acknowledge it, rather than offer to negotiate it. As for reneging on their debt in order to renew the war, Franklin made no reply. "I did not desire to discourage their stopping payment, which I considered as cutting the throat of their public credit," he wrote in his journal. "Such menaces were besides an encouragement with me, remembering the old adage that they who threaten are afraid."
Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson
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