Dave

Infinite Image #6 ⛳ 9 strokes 🟧🟧⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩🟦🟦 Can you find the color in fewer? www.thisisdavekim.com/infinite-ima...

How do we go from collective intelligence to collective understanding to collective wisdom?

Thinking about good neighbors and neighborhoods as enduring infrastructure

Inevitable. What a sneaky, dangerous word. It closes off the possibility space and points to a specific (person’s, group’s, ideology’s) version of the future as the only one possible.

Whether you call it play, care, dreamweaving, or just giving a damn, how you do something matters. Great post by @behzod.com on infinite romance.

On the imagination crisis and how science fiction can help us think and feel our ways to different ways of being. zoescaman.substack.com/p/the-imagin...

What are you optimizing for? What are you playing for?

Great position to not include ads. Marking this moment. www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

Every so often, I wonder what David Graeber would think of this moment. From bullshit jobs to anarchy to play to human ingenuity and more

If you ever doubted that branding matters, just look at how people are reacting to digital gardens vs personal operating systems.

After all of the AI-enhanced digital gardens have been set up, will you be wiser? Will you be more kind? Will you have more grace? Will you be more brave? Or is this just another example of dialing in your workshop and never actually making something.

My friend, Vicky, keeps two lists of people. One list is of people she would love to hire. The other list is of people she would love as a boss. If you see that there are people who are on both of your lists, go find them and make some good trouble. www.thisisdavekim.com/notes/twolis...

We're about to start the fourth season of our giving circle. If you'd like to donate alongside us for this season, give me a shout! We'd love to amplify our impact - and perhaps inspire you to start or join one yourself!

We're developing technology that has so much potential, and we're spending most of our time reinventing B2B SaaS. What is even going on? Is this because some of the finest* minds of our generation spent a decade optimizing the color of a blue button? * Caveat, caveat, caveat

While reading a friend's essay, I added this comment: Can pixels age? Do pixels have a patina? Can pixels show where the cursor has rubbed against it the most?

I've been thinking a lot about personal stories recently and stumbled on something Yancey Strickler wrote last year. "First we live, then we learn, and last we narrate." The path is rarely clear when you're on it. It's only when we look back at where we've been that we see the common thread.

We focus so much of our attention on algorithms, but not enough on the design of social networks. Loved this insight from @randomwalker.bsky.social on what makes TikTok feel so different here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/tiktoks...

We should normalize bringing your friends to work.

It's time for new metaphors.

Just a monthly reminder that there is a huge opportunity to reimagine how social networks operate. Still early innings (despite the incredible time warp that happens on the internet) bsky.app/profile/this...

"Weave the world you refuse to allow to be taken away from you." Just the note that I needed to read on this rainy day. Thanks, @benjaminlowe.bsky.social

Growing up in NJ, we’d stop for deer and turkeys. Here in the PNW, we stop for Orcas. Wild wild wild

Still thinking about this bsky.app/profile/this...

Imagine that your town just got a million dollars - but first, you have to agree on how you'll make decisions about it. How would that go? www.thisisdavekim.com/notes/decisi...

Ok, ok, ok. So in between talking about emerging technology, collectives, decision science, and social impact, can we just send a massive appreciation for WSDOT's social media account? Who says that government can't have a voice or personality? www.instagram.com/reel/DDXm9qy...

A few things on my mind these days: Is it reasonable to expect a global advertising network to serve as a digital deliberation platform? Is it reasonable to expect a direct-to-outrage distribution channel to serve as a global town square?

Isn't it pretty strange that we don't have a clear definition or understanding of intelligence or attention? It feels like we are sensing different parts of the elephant, but no one has the full picture.