kevin (o) on allocation ness

kevin owocki on his book via tweet [https://x.com/owocki/status/1806065971427426617]:

final production print of the new book drop is here!

book via blurb [https://www.blurb.com/b/12042196-onchain-capital-allocation-handbook]:

About the Book

Capital allocation is a simple concept: it’s *the act of deciding how to distribute funding or resources. If you’ve ever paid bills, taxes, or repaid friends for a meal, you’ve allocated capital.
Capital allocation can become a full time job: **governments and grant-making organi- zations spend vast amounts of time and money figuring out the process, logistics, and ***decision-making involved in allocating capital. At scale, capital allocation inevitably be- comes mired in gatekeeping, rivalrous decision making, and lack of transparency and accountability.
Crypto with its programmable smart contracts, present incredible advantages towards allocating capital ****in an efficient, effective, and transparent manner.

*need sabbatical ish transition (whatever want/need sans any form of m\a\p until people forget about measuring)

**graeber min\max law; graeber grant law.. et al..

***finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. need to org around legit needs via curiosity (itch-in-soul) over decision making

ie: imagine if we listened to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & used that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)

***what we need is tech w/o judgment.. there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental expo labeling).. to facil a legit global detox leap.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it

*The internet revolutionized how information was distributed in society. If crypto succeeds in revolutionizing how society distributes scarce resources, it follows that it will upend, and **improve, how we do capital allocation.
**What if we could solve coordination failures with capital allocation? What if we could create better, more sovereign, collective action? How might we bring centuries old capital allocation strategies onchain? Can we invent new onchain capital allocation strategies that were not possible before Ethereum?
The next horizon is hard to see alone, but by exploring it together, we can grasp it.
This book is a celebration of the design space, and your no-hype resource to understand- ing the emergent pluralistic ecology of capital allocation developing in the web3 space. I’ve enjoyed putting together this handbook of ****the latest and greatest in what’s possible. It is my great pleasure to have a front row seat to this movement as a member of Gitcoin. My hope for this book is that I can pay it forward to you.

*but matters little (actually a cancerous distraction) if still whac-a-mole-ing w non legit data (ie: data from whales in sea world)

**won’t happen (because we’ll keep on not stopping at enough) until we org around legit needs

***how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil (again) curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..