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Units of Culture: Byte-Sized Information Transfer

The Writers' Room 0001: Backroom writing drafts.

LGHT for The Network Company

LGHT for The Network Company

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A mental model worth exploring?

If memes are being defined as units of culture. Then we need measurement consensus for the unit of account. Affording us the delineation of diameter, mass, velocity, etc.

Take apart the following subjects to discern if this model has legs-- think in terms of units:

  • Religious symbols, parables, prayers

  • Currency gradients, functions, measurement

  • Company mission, philosophy, product offering

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The cultural units are expansive and significant.

Ask yourself if the Christian cross equates to the same unit amount as Bitcoin's ₿?

It's a nonsensical argument at time of writing. Thus, qualitative culture has some intuitive level of quantitative measurement.

Meaning units of culture is quite representative of that which is seemingly intangible. The transferrable data of cultural epochs - references, sensory information matrices, thought patterns, narratives, etc.

Digital?

On the web, tokenization brings a quantitative unit of account to these epochs at a rudimentary level. Likely the start of qualitative tech? Where we tangilize the intangible?

Therefore:

  • kilobyte → kilomeme

  • megabyte → megameme

  • gigabyte → gigameme

  • terabyte → terameme

Near term use case as a mental model?

Greater digital literacy around resource venture?

With a compounding of digital citizens, concepts, and cultural epochs will increase probability of global intervention/scaling. An early example is Higher.

Pain point in the present is education and internalizing opportunity for verticalization.

  • I.e. knowing how much cultural data exists within the concept (meme)

Intuitive reframing of digital conceptualization could lead to greater success rates in:

  • choosing concepts for verticalization

  • creating organization mechanisms around concepts

  • durability in the face of tenured scaling

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LGHTFarcaster
LGHT
Commented 2 months ago

trying a new writing venture of shorter form stuff that I'd usually keep in my notes apps https://paragraph.xyz/@thenetworkcompany/writers-room-1

jacobFarcaster
jacob
Commented 2 months ago

this measuring system feels like an unlock to me. a related thing i like coming back to picture = 1000 words meme = 10,000 words symbol = 100,000 words i like where you've landed

LGHTFarcaster
LGHT
Commented 2 months ago

wondered how it would resonate on your end. glad to hear we’re going in similar directions on it

Units of Culture: Byte-Sized Information Transfer