8-Fold's Underpinnings
Works that influence our worldview and motivate our intervention.
As we build this ecosystem, we encounter works that either inspire or challenge our way of thinking. Ishaan and I seek clarity but welcome conflict. True to our mission, we want to take the best of what humanity has already figured out and built atop it. This is our version of the "shoulders of giants" on which we stand, as we envision the future we hope to realize.
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Original works by 8-Fold Founders

  • Founding Charter

  • Network Constitution

  • Investor Memo

    • Universal Access to Knowledge

  • Project Alexandria: Towards Freeing Scientific Knowledge from Copyright Burdens via LLMs

  • The Case for Digital Public Infrastructure

  • The Mother Library

  • Universal Access to All Knowledge | Brewster Kahle

  • White Paper on Controlled Digital Lending of Library Books

    • Future of Human Connection

  • Status as a Service (Social Capital and Internet Networks)

  • The Next Generation of Social Networks: Games, Roblox, and More | Andrew Chen | The Tim Ferriss Show

  • Mark Zuckerberg on the Future of Social Media

  • Group chats rule the world

    • Information Overload

  • Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World

  • Condensing The Iceberg

    • Human Progress + Truth Finding

  • Scientific Legacy of Nobel Laureate Robert Grubbs Amplified by AI

  • Science needs disagreement. What makes some disagreement useless? | Aeon Essays

  • How to Fact Check The Atlantic

  • Fish in Water

  • Why the U.S. President Needs a Council of Historians

    • Aesthetic

  • Jony Ive on Making Products with Care and Love

    • The Humanist Manifestos

  • Humanist Manifesto I - American Humanist Association

  • Humanist Manifesto II - American Humanist Association

  • Humanism and Its Aspirations: Humanist Manifesto III, a Successor to the Humanist Manifesto of 1933 - American Humanist Association

  • The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco.

  • The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)