Meta #37 - MetaManifesto 2.0
Also Chainlog & Quests ofc.
⛓️ Chainlog 📜
As I’ve said, MetaGame has been accelerating…
The purges continue with no lack of interesting new members joining. 🙃
Kay set up 5 new embassies! Metagamers now have direct communication lines to MetaFactory, MetaCartel, DAOHaus, Panvala & Gitcoin!
defileZebra reactivated as a Scribe & took up writing notes for the Inner Circle calls as well as the Community Gatherings & the Autonomous Podcast posts.
Ben.oxmo & Nicolaslaw deployed a bot that fetches XP stats from Sourcecred to Discord aka the proto-ValueFeed. Type: “!ac xp @yourself” to use it.
Alec joined the builders crew & started sending in PRs.
Eowulia joined the game as an artist & a podcast editor, produced the new ep.
Penguin built the MetaMansion for the MetaCartel x MetaGammaDelta MetaFamily meetup that was held this Tuesday.
Saimano installed the analytics on the wiki so we can get a better understanding on which pages are liked and which, not so much.
LoneRonin migrated MetaMaps to Hasura & started writing documentation for our monorepo - the lack of which has been keeping new players from building.
Ben.oxmo & Paco did a knowledge sharing session about renewable energy.
Jason Yin ideated on how the MetaAcademy part of the platform would work and that is likely what the MetaGame China guild will be focusing on building.
I upgraded the MetaManifesto to 2.0 - now with 50% less text & 100% less cringe. This kind of concludes the Wiki content update - new content next 😱 👇
We started playing a game called Eco, which is basically Minecraft on steroids: “Eco is a community-based game; the players develop laws, government, and an economy to determine the success of their world.” Maybe join us (while its 15% off)?
Coming up next week:
Platform design sprint with our friends over from Deep Work.
Vinay Gupta talking switch from consumption to investment on MetaRadio.
Next round of Seed minting 🙃
📖 MetaManifesto
😬 Interlude
Problem: Industrialized economies brought us a lot of efficiency but sacrificed everything else for it.
Taking money as the ultimate abstraction of value, we started using it as a metric of success & progress. At the corporate level; in making the next quarter ever more profitable, and on the nation state level - where it's all about growing the GDP.
Thus, the current games society is playing lead to over-exploitation. In a mindless game of chasing profits, we forgot what the economic system was supposed to deliver us. Prosperity. Instead of prosperity, the game is optimized for maximum value extraction at the expense of all living beings and natural resources.
We need to start a new game before it’s too late.
👀 A Decentralized Society
Explained in more detail through posts like WTF is MetaGame, A Decentralized Factory, A Web of Opportunity & The Way of Web3 Founders - our goal is to build an environment where value-aligned individuals & groups may come together, do awesome things & make a living.
The first version of MetaGame is being built mainly for the pioneers of the future we want to build. From educational resources & teammates, to mentors, investors & users; we hope to bring together anything you’ll need to build decentralized applications & organizations.
Over the long run, the goal is to build an ecosystem of people & projects focused on fixing the world. A society tracking more meaningful metrics, such as morale, people fed & ecosystem health; focused on efficiently allocating resources to the things that matter, not just the things that make a buck.
🔭 MetaWorldview
The Earth is our spaceship, keeping us alive. We, as humanity, need to start acting like it’s crew and not competitors in a game of who’s-best-at-exploiting-it.
In a different lingo, Gaia is a fragile oasis & our only home. It is to be dutifully gardened & taken care of.
Bitcoin halving is cool, but wildlife halving isn’t.
You get the point.
The nation states are irrelevant - we are Citizens of The Earth. Rather than resorting to nationalist ideologies & caving in, it's time we recognize we are all one family. A human family.
🏃 Be Autonomous
As you might have noticed already, we are very much about taking things into our own hands rather than waiting for commands of the utterly incompetent nation states and the global organizations such as the UN, to solve our problems.
People in the old world are taught to sit quietly and wait to be told what to do. This is not how we do things.
Do not wait for someone to tell you what to do. Find a problem you care about & solve it. We exist to support you - not command you.
People in the old world like to complain. We like building solutions.
🤔 Why now?
In terms of empowering people to coordinate around creating value together and at scale without having to trust each other; the technologies are barely here now.
The printing press, the radio & the internet were the information revolutions; democratizing access, production & distribution of information. Web3 is about democratizing organizations & state-making.
The next era of the internet is the web in which we’re not mere consumers harvested for attention. We’ll be stakeholders & producers of these systems.
But this is only about the internet insofar as that’s what we’ll be using to coordinate societies.
We are running out of time to steer humanity away from catastrophes caused by our failure to create better coordination mechanisms than just the markets. Part of the reason we can’t have nice things.
Simply, it is time.
⌛ Join The Fight
We are building the future we want to live in. For that, we are looking for people with a burning desire to change the course of history.
If you recognize yourself as such, join through here.
❓Quests
Already a player? Maybe do some of these 👇
🌲 Evergreen Quests:
🧠 Learn or Teach - We need more knowledge to spread! Go to the #🧠-brain-exchange channel and post “I want to learn X” or “I can teach someone Y”.
🏛️ Tread The Forums - Forums are a crucial place for curating useful information but currently still underpopulated. Go and do something about it.
🚨 Speak up! - We need more people suggesting improvements & speaking up for what sucks in MetaGame. Do that in the #🚨-issues-n-ideas channel.
💦 Water the crops - We need to plant more Seeds & water the existing plants.
📣 Shilleth - Post one of MetaGame’s articles on r/ethereum.
🙆 Diversify - We have people from all over the world. From US to Europe, to India, Asia & Australia. So, who’s missing? Women. Help bring more women to MetaGame.
🏥 Help Others - Go help someone! May be a fellow metagamer or it maybe a a fellow stranger - any philantropic or ecological cause out there.
🤔 Open Roles
🛠️ Builder - Can never have enough builders, mainly looking for those familiar with working with React & Hasura, writing TypeScript & GraphQL.
🤖 Gitquester - We need someone to built the MetaGame quest on Gitcoin. You can do so through here, but do ask us for some feedback.
🙋 Innkeeper - We got people applying to join, we need existing players to help filter & onboard them into MetaGame.
📽️ Anchorman - We need someone to start recording update videos based on these newsletters & educational content for the wiki. Considering becoming a youtuber? Now is your time to shine 😉
Onwards! 🐙
Come on, join the Community Gathering! We’ll be hanging out, welcoming new members, answering questions and whatnot 🙃
What’s special this time? Drew Harding of MetaFactory & MetaCartel talking farming techniques - no, not that farming, actual farming. Sustainable agriculture & whatnot.
Ping me @petheth if you want to join but can’t see the #townhall voice channel.
Friday @ 10am PST / 1pm EST / 5pm UTC / 7pm CET / 10:30pm IST