In this episode, we explore the principle of writing for oneself and how many of history's greatest writers have operated on this principle. We discuss the importance of writing in a way that pleases only oneself and how sacrificing even a hair of one's vision in order to please someone else is the most abject of treacheries. Listen in as we examine the stakes of writing and how it truly matters whether you're writing for yourself out of a conviction in truth and beauty, or for others in order to please them.
We also discuss the challenges of writing for oneself in the era of social media, where the nearness of the audience can make one lose the self. We consider the difficulty of recultivating the self in today's world and how it requires a certain degree of anti-social discipline and effortful recultivation of the self.
Chapters:
(0:00:00) - Writing for Yourself
(0:05:56) - Cultivating A Self
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We discuss the imminent future of DAOs on Urbit with the founder of Holium (~lomder-librun) and Anthony (~poldec-tonteg) from the Urbit-focused startup accelerator The Combine.
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00:00 Intro
02:11 Building colonies on Urbit
4:47 The nitty-gritty of DAO pragmatics
09:34 Holium, colony-building software, & Urbit governance types
19:02 Overthrowing the global techno-commercial mega machine with Urbit
27:45 Why VR is bull****, AGI is fake, & how "meatspace" DAOs work
31:35 Leveraging technology for community coordination & the modern misunderstanding of land ownership
38:43 Permanent digital identities vs throw-away digital identities
42:00 Concrete steps towards building communities, local DAO coordination, & economic stability via crypto
50:33 Intentional community lessons learned from the Branch Davidians, Osho, Mennonites, & Mormons
1:01:13 Advantages of building startups on Urbit & addressing common misconceptions/critiques
1:10:21 Closing words
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DC Miller is a controversial but very misunderstood person. He is a writer in London outcast from polite society after his opposition to the Shutdown LD50 campaign two years ago. I've talked with him enough to know he is not the evil caricature his enemies make him out to be, but I still don't understand his views fully. In this livestream we will try to get to the bottom of what DC really thinks. In doing so we make a series of distinctions about conservatives, fascists, neoreactionaries, and free-speech leftists.
DC wrote the book, "Dracula Rules the World and Mark Zuckerberg is His Son" https://amzn.to/2VKWhaU. You can find a list of his other writings at http://dcxmiller.tumblr.com/.
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