When institutions decline, what do people actually do? Albert Hirschman's classic framework gives us three answers — and they're not what you'd expect. In this episode, Watson and B. Sovereign break down *Exit, Voice, and Loyalty* and extract four counterintuitive truths with direct implications for builders working on open protocols,…
The Bitlemmas Podcast | Episode 11 | Digital Technology and Democratic Theory Book Review: "Digital Technology and Democratic Theory" — Bernholz, Landemore & Reich 📍 Runtime: ~1 hr 24 min Digital democracy. Platform governance. Censorship resistance. Decentralized identity. Open-source governance. Free speech online. Bitcoin philosophy. Civic tech. Algorithmic filtering. Participatory…
Bitlemmas | The Book Club for the Open-Source World Open-source built the internet. Linux, Git, Apache, PostgreSQL , the backbone of modern computing was written by communities, not corporations. But today, those same communities are slowly being captured: by corporate foundations, centralized governance, and infrastructure they no longer control. Who's…
In this debut episode of the BitLemmas Podcast, Watson walks through a detailed review of Jeff Booth's The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future. The discussion covers Booth's core argument that technology is inherently deflationary — meaning prices should be falling as outputs rise…
