Michael Akilian
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[at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject
Curius / OnboardingI had wondered if Urbit was an attempt to try and leave the Earth behind, if humans were trying to create increasingly immersive spaces to hang out online until they could get on a space shuttle to another planet. After Assembly, I no longer think Urbit is just a cult for accelerationists, doomsday preppers, and overweight nerds, trying to escape their human form by taking on the names of stars, galaxies, and planets. People kept referencing the idea of going up to an online world that felt more curated and human, so that users could come back to reality with more clarity of mind, more enthusi…
My Weekend With the Martians | Ruby SuttonWhen you don’t have explicit hierarchies, it’s way worse
My Weekend With the Martians | Ruby Sutton“Oh, lore is very valuable, more valuable than ever,” K. says, flicking off messages on his cell. “Lore, backstory, depth of information. In the information age, you feel you can either know everything, or you could know everything — you can just look it up. But lore has a mythical dimension. Lore is half what you know, half your imagination. It tells you something may be around the corner.”
My Weekend With the Martians | Ruby Sutton