This month we’ve been busy onboarding new members, writing about permissionless brands, finalising our Good Growth Framework, doing a CogDis takeover, and helping others where we can.
We also had a great chat with Leanne Elliot Young, CEO and Co-founder of the Institute of Digital Fashion, a leading voice on fashion futures, inclusivity in tech, and the metaverse. Digging into their Diversity and Inclusivity within Virtual Worlds report (see above) as well as an alpha on their NFT drop💧 … all of which you can listen to here.
So, without further ado, here’s another handpicked selection of links c/o our PRTN members for your reading pleasure:
- Institute of Network Cultures are looking to understand the ethics of memes
- Sirsu on building on-chain social capital
- New Public want to know what the offline world can teach us about improving our online one
- It’s two hours long, but this Tim Ferris podcast with Chris Dixon and Naval on why Web3 will change pretty much everything is definitely worth a listen
- Grafik is getting into NFTs. Probably nothing
- Scientists have created software that hallucinates
- Octopuses and lobsters have feelings too you know?
- Gal-dem has got some serious gifting game
- Virgil might be gone, but his legacy will live forever
- A plan for humanity’s shared flourishing
- Dark Study are building a very different type of learning program
- A new floating city is being created off the coast of South Korea
- AirBnB has made this rather nice design resource for freelance illustrators
- Google is trying to help make fashion more sustainable
- Apple is finally releasing self-repair kits
- Adidas Originals apes into the metaverse … literally
- Turns out Moon Pay has been helping celebs buy NFTs
- Scenario report on art shaping the future
- The Dematerialised have got a fancy new website
- You should grow your community like you’d grow your garden
- And community growth ≠ growth in number of members
- PoolSuite are making internet clubs cool again
- DAO burnout is already a thing
- Ed Snowden on Ai Weiwei, markets and monocultures
- Don’t check your gas 🔥
- Other Internet report on stresses and strains of running a DAO
- Hypercoop is a speculative model for independent supermarkets and it’s beautiful
- The gig economy is fighting back with data
- It was only a matter of time … $gm 🌞
Still hungry? Join PRTN to meet likeminded folks, discuss #tough-questions, and help our good growth mission:
THANKS
A special shot out to all our members who’ve contributed to this months Supplement: @arian @artem @chu @deniz @EVI @Fancy @gustavo @iamkhayyam @jonty (+ for the podcast edit) @kes @mel @rickwilliams @sunnndayyy @tina and expect to see lots more community curated content SOON™️
Until next month, your friends at Protein 💚
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