The economics of dark forest spaces
In the world of online platforms there’s a well-known pattern called the 90-9-1 rule. It says that in most
I'm a writer and entrepreneur whose work supports artists and creative people. I'm the cofounder of Kickstarter, The Creative Independent, Metalabel, The Dark Forest Collective, and Artist Corporations, and the author of This Could Be Our Future, The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet, and On the Creative Life.
Current projects:
- Releasing infrastructure to help creative people cooperate with Metalabel
- Building private internets with Dark Forest OS
- Establishing a new corporate form and law with Artist Corporations
- Publishing books with the Dark Forest Collective
- Cohosting a podcast with Josh Citarella about creativity and the internet
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Defining groupcore
In a recent post I wrote that Metalabel’s focus is groupcore: software, tools, economics, spaces, and ideas that help
How the 1971 Artist's Contract previewed A-Corps
In 1971 conceptual art dealer Seth Siegelaub and lawyer Robert Projansky collaborated to create a new contract for the purchase
How to get where you need to be when you don’t know where you’re going
We obsess over finding the meaning and purpose of our lives. But how do we go about finding it?
We
What's the difference between an artist and a creator?
In 1973, experimental filmmaker Hollis Frampton wrote a letter to MoMA that captures a paradox that still defines creative work
The internet is dying on the outside but growing on the inside
Dark Forests rule everything around us. Signal chats to plan wars? Check. Private group chats where rival athletes discuss injuries?