As an INTJ, I'm naturally drawn to optimization. Whenever I encounter a problem, my first instinct is to examine the underlying system that produced that problem. Often there is some kind of structural weakness, and I look for structural solutions — technological, legal, political, game theoretical — that can fix them. 1
In spite of our polarization and political dysfunction, I am an optimist at heart, and believe that better things are possible.
Which is why I’m co-hosting a salon with Elle Griffin next Wednesday, January 14th at 5pm CST.
Griffin is a journalist and author who, after an extended sojourn overseas, returned to find America unrecognizable. Rather than just joining the hot-takes attention economy and becoming a professional complainer, she thought more deeply about it and decided that our biggest problem, the meta-challenge that explains much of our dysfunction, is a lack of imagination. She’s right.
Her new book, Elysian, Volume III, practices “anti-anti-utopianism”: the insistence that we can build better if we’re willing to imagine it first. She draws on Hugo’s romanticism as political technology, treating beauty and shared values as organizing principles, and proposes solutions that are both tractable and generative.
There are seven spots available. Register now to reserve yours.
This is the reason I created Cardless ID: age verification without surveillance solves a coordination problem among content providers and users.
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