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Stefan Cohen @stefans.house · 09/04/20257/ building with open principles is how we stay sovereign as institutions shift, fragment, or reassert control open systems—physical or digital—offer legibility, adaptability, and agency they're expressions of the same design instinct: resilience through openness 020
Stefan Cohen @stefans.house · 09/04/20256/ so the strange inversion: the real world is becoming more closed + scarce via geopolitics the digital world is becoming more open + infinite via ai and both need balancing forces to stay legible + useful 100
Stefan Cohen @stefans.house · 09/04/20255/ applied cryptography steps in here—not just blockchains, but a broader toolkit for making digital things verifiable, ownable, and scarce it brings structure and trust to a world where everything can be copied, generated, or faked 100
Stefan Cohen @stefans.house · 09/04/20254/ meanwhile in digital: ai makes it trivial to generate infinite content, code, media, even designs but that breaks the concept of value everything is everywhere, owned by no one 100
Stefan Cohen @stefans.house · 09/04/20253/ but openness doesn’t disappear in closed conditions—it adapts open systems emerge as strategic responses: interoperable by default usable without permission resilient to fragmentation they’re architectures of autonomy—mirroring what cryptographic systems do in digital space 100
Stefan Cohen @stefans.house · 09/04/20252/ on the “real” side: international trade is splintering immigration is tightening critical supply chains are being walled off we’re watching the old rules of globalization unravel 100
Stefan Cohen @stefans.house · 09/04/20251/ two big shifts are unfolding at once: the real world—people, goods, borders, trade—is getting more closed, permissioned, fragmented the digital world is getting flooded with ai-driven abundance but both are running into their own kind of limits 100
Stefan Cohen @stefans.house · 17/03/2025Video surveillance aggregation shouldn’t be the default. Instead of governments aggregating everything, imagine AI-powered smart glasses—recording locally, with individuals choosing when to submit evidence. A decentralized model where safety is crowdsourced, not imposed. 010
Reposted by Stefan CohenAnirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 20/01/2025We're now witnessing a rebuild of existing social media categories—but on atproto. Short form text, long form text, pictures and now, short form video. There's still room here. Once these are done, I predict we'll see a bunch of supporting services + entirely new social paradigms emerge. 121
Stefan Cohen @stefans.house · 06/01/20259/ The implication of all of this is that we are much earlier in the “creator economy” than most expect. As it pertains to our work @baincapitalcrypto, we believe there will be a further explosion of digitally native content and creators. 000
Stefan Cohen @stefans.house · 06/01/20258/ The hard part (I don’t have the answer to) is how do parents cultivate creative expression, and what to do in this interim period where the curriculum across education levels are oriented around “legacy work”. 100
Stefan Cohen @stefans.house · 06/01/20257/ These new groups could provide the same sense of pedigree and belonging, tailored to a world where creative expression and unique contributions are the ultimate differentiators. 100
Stefan Cohen @stefans.house · 06/01/20256/ The one thing higher education provides today that’s hard to replicate is the *seal of approval.* But even that could evolve. New affiliation groups—like Thiel Fellows or Y Combinator—might emerge for the career paths of the future. 100
Stefan Cohen @stefans.house · 06/01/20255/ In a world where labor, services, and intelligence are infinite, *scarcity* becomes the differentiator. What’s scarce? Things we create: - Art - Writing - Events/experiences Human creativity, *amplified by AI*, will be what sets us apart. 100
Stefan Cohen @stefans.house · 06/01/2025 4/ Here’s what I see: a) Education will be increasingly commoditized (beyond affiliation/pedigree). b) The nature of work will shift dramatically. c) *What will matter most is our ability to creatively express ourselves.* 100
Stefan Cohen @stefans.house · 06/01/20253/ But I think focusing on cost misses the bigger picture. In a world transformed by AGI and ubiquitous digital education, the *style* of work, education, and value creation will look radically different. 100
Stefan Cohen @stefans.house · 06/01/20252/ Naturally, this starts with the question of cost. At $60K/year for private college today, a 5% annual increase puts it at *$150K/year* in 18 years—before factoring in non-tuition costs. 100
Stefan Cohen @stefans.house · 06/01/20251/ A fun holiday conversation: what will higher education look like for kids born today? With AGI on the horizon, I’m increasingly convinced that the defining skillset of the future will be *creative expression*. 🧵 140
Reposted by Stefan CohenParth Chopra @parthc28.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Cool checking out @graze.social -- ability to generate, share, (one day monetize?) your own type of feed. I wonder when we'll have dynamic, prompted LLM-style feeds. Aka say "make me smarter, show me things that are funnier" and the feed will be curated as such 022
