What is the thing about exponentials? - Kenny Rowe

Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. This podcast is for you. If you have an insane drive to find the truth of things, it's not the good answers that we seek, but the good questions. I interview a range of different guests from many different fields, all with the intention to uncover the simple truths that are hidden in plain sight. Most people don't want to go there. I go there, my guests go there, and you benefit. Please let me know if you enjoy these episodes and as always, subscribe on itunes, Spotify, or wherever you listen to the podcasts. Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. My guest today is Kenny Rowe. He is the founder of the Dalton Collective on Urbit. And if you want to find him on Urbit, you can go find him on sickdev. Pillnup S I C D E F midscore P I L N U P He's also part of the founding team of MakerDAO. Welcome to the show, Kenny.

Thank you.

How's your day going today? Pretty good, yeah. So what is the Dalton Collective?

The Dalton Collective is a group of folks that got together a couple of years ago, and the first thing we did was we wanted to collectively own an orbit star together. And just for folks that aren't familiar in the Urbit ecosystem, there are sort of three types of nodes, orbital assets. There's something called the Galaxy, which is similar to like a DNS root node on the existing Internet that also. That helps with peer discovery, but also has. Galaxies have governance responsibilities. Then one step higher than that is a star, which also helps with peer discovery, doesn't have any governance aspects to it. And then the one above that is something called a planet. And a planet is like an individual identity. And so planets are relatively easy to come by. They cost between 10 and $20, depending on the market price at any given time. Some are more rare, and maybe those go for more, but they're fairly easy to come by. However, stars are a bit more expensive because they hold within them 65,000 of these planet identities that can be either sold or used in some other way. And so from the early beginnings, there's this sort of notion in that these identities, these stars, would either be businesses of some kind or some other kind of group activity. And so in 2019, I just, I thought, you know, I've got one of these things, I'm not doing anything with it, might as well form a group around it to such that we could collectively own it and figure out what these things might be good for. And so that happened back in 2019. And as, as the group Evolved. Really what we were interested in pursuing was something more like sense making as a group. Right. And so it's not a business. It didn't, it didn't become anything that we're trying to like make something and ship it, that kind of thing. Really it's more of a social group. It's actually kind of more similar to sort of traditional, like Elks Clubs or other social groups where the reason for coming together is primarily like social. So every week we get together, we try to figure out as best as we can, sort of what's going on in the world around us, what do people think about, like whatever topics the group is interested in, that sort of thing. And we've solidified around three core values for the group. First being that fellowship, that getting together on a weekly basis and like sharing of the minds type of thing. But we also want to do that sustainably. So that does mean we are trying to acquire resources or start things that do have income, that sort of a thing. And we'd want to do all of that as sort of in a way that is the most sovereign as possible. So sovereignty is our third core value, both as individuals and as a group. And so the way that's worked out over time is we have these spin out groups that, that do try to do specific things in the world like a business or some kind of entity. And right now the one that's the most successful is a group called Cordis and, and they do software development on URBIT specifically. And so they also help us with the rest of the group build tools for our group. So one of the tools that they built, for example, was a little way to help keep attendance for meetings, that kind of thing, which is kind of like an nft, but it's not like an, it's not an asset because it's not registered on any blockchain or anything like that. So that's kind of the way we've kind of formed and what we're about. And we've been doing this for the last, let's say since late 2019.