coordination

Every previous coordination technology that dissolved a form of selfhood also cultivated the next one. Current algorithmic systems only dissolve. The problem is the speed mismatch.

Individuality is a coordination technology. It emerged under specific historical conditions, and those conditions are weakening as computation, capital, and automated feedback loops absorb the functions it once performed.

Crypto found product-market fit where trust is weakest: inflationary or censored economies, and internet-native communities that need programmable coordination and markets.

The proving-verification asymmetry in zero-knowledge proofs is what makes them economically meaningful: proving is expensive, verification is cheap, and that gap changes what systems can be built without trust.