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··· 40 40 - Don't change it too often. 41 41 - Cryptoeconomics is about trying to reduce social trust assumptions by creating systems where we introduce explicit economic incentives for good behavior and economic penalties for bad behavior. 42 42 - [Decentralized systems accelerate innovation by maximizing the greatest number of possibilities and variations that are considered](https://faintsignal.org/decentralized-systems-accelerate-innovation/). Centralized systems are efficient, not disruptively innovative. 43 43 + - There is a [trilemma with Decentralized Identity](https://maciek.blog/p/dit). You can't have all three: 44 44 + - Self-sovereign identity: the user is in control of their identity. 45 45 + - Privacy-preserving: the user's identity is not shared with third parties. 46 46 + - Sybil-resistant: identity is subject to scarcity; i.e., creating more identifiers cannot be used to manipulate a system. 43 47 44 48 ## Types of Decentralization 45 49

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··· 54 54 - Seek real [[Feedback]] (e.g. anonymous). 55 55 - Meet a wide range of people, as valuable opportunities often come from unexpected connections. 56 56 - Burnout is a major killer of agency and creativity. Prioritize rest and sustainable effort. 57 57 + - [Style is a set of constraints that you stick to](https://stephango.com/style). Style emerges from consistency, and having a style opens your imagination. Collect constraints you enjoy. Unusual constraints make things more fun. You can always change them later. This is your style, after all. It’s not a life commitment, it’s just the way you do things. Having a style collapses hundreds of future decisions into one, and gives you focus. E.g: always pluralize tags to never have to wonder what to name new tags.

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··· 18 18 19 19 Keep in mind intervening in a system requires some kind of theory, some kind of model where the positive effects will definitely be better than the side effects - and given how little we know and how bad we are at prediction, this will probably be wrong. A great way to start is removing things, kind of like a negative intervention, and so probably good (e.g: you're unlikely to find a medicine as helpful as smoking is harmful, so focus on stopping smoking). Easy to replace systems get replaced by difficult to replace systems. Sometimes is better to have fewer points of small disruptive change, but make a larger one much more meaningful. 20 20 21 21 - [A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall's_law>)(more [elementary systems functions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics#Elementary_systems_functions)). 21 21 + [A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall's_law>)(more [elementary systems functions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics#Elementary_systems_functions)). [Systems want to grow and grow](https://stephango.com/remove), but without pruning, they collapse. A good system is designed to be periodically cleared of cruft. It has a built-in counterbalance. 22 22 23 23 Complex systems usually have [attractor landscapes](https://ncase.me/attractors/) that can be used to change it. [The world is richer and more complicated than we give it credit for](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-like-a-state/). 24 24