A Shell & Environment to Play

  • A clean UX / UI that was battle-tested at Edge City Lanna, Devcon (15000 people), EthIndia
    • At the time thought that coliving would be better environment to incubate than pop-up city / conference
  • Embassy as an incubation environment for “Dunbar Tech”

Demo


Value Propositions

  1. Cross-platform UX
  2. Depth from the start
    1. Ex: Andre
  3. Connection in time is serendipity
    1. Narrowcasting: Conditional / relevant notifications
      1. Ex: Calendar PSI + Notification
    2. Socializing activities, routines
      1. Ex: Dinner, coworking, impromptu meeting, run, walk, etc
    3. Spontaneous coordination
      1. Communal coordination layer?
  4. Embodied / Embedded relationship with technology
    1. Physically: NFC chips as configurable, programmable way of interacting with lived environment
      1. Ex: Location chips
      2. Ex: Chips embedded into merch
    2. Data: interoperability means applications can be used in combination, greater than the sum of their parts?
      1. Ex: Devcon calendar, Telegram
  5. Legibility + group incentives as different games to play
    1. Legibility as an attention attractor / forcing function
    2. Ex: tap + onboarding incentives for merch
    3. Ex: competition, collaboration

The end goal: “being in village means deep connection and serendipity, lets turn cities back into villages… but this time around, memetic villages”


Speculative

  1. Bottom-up objectivity + verifiable traits
  2. Transitive connection means social graphs can be shared
    1. Transitive connection as an effort multiplier
  3. 2PC vs MPC
    1. Groups use a lot of the same math and / or could set up a TEE (trusted execution environment )
    2. Common knowledge? Group preferences? Governance?

What’s Next

  1. Distribute stickers to embassy residents
  2. Location chips
    1. Ex: leaderboard: gym, tasks (trash, recycling, watering, dishwasher)
    2. Ex: coordination: dining room coworking, dinner
  3. Admin console for registering social, location chips
  4. Devcon Calendar PSI Google Calendar OAuth App — for timing
  5. Telegram Integration Slack OAuth App (instead of Telegram) — for notifications
  6. Create some artisanal templates, to get back into the pattern
  7. Begin generalizing template patterns, come up with draft scheme to allow users to create their own
    1. Ex: friends, interests, work partner, long-term partner, fling
      1. can input data after the fact, to “continue the connection”