Description

1. Elinor Ostrom “non-tragedy-commons” and Governing the Commons
2. bitcoin-paves-a-way-for-evolution-of-the-species and neal-stephenson
3. history-of-the-stock-market and history of money
4. The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar and richard-stallman-epstein-scandal
5. International Standard (History) and List_of_technical_standard_organizations
6. Overview of ITU's History 
7. benefits and pitfalls to the startup model of ‘scratching your own itch’.

An ordered list of Hard Things, for next week: 

1. Developing a shared semantic understanding within a local context
2. Encoding those semantics in a syntactic system that functions in that context
3. Scaling that to other contexts -- especially via bottom-up voluntary adoption
4. Honoring the original intent without becoming limited by it