In this interactive, participatory workshop, we will use games as thought experiments to discover potential methods, structures, funding models and so on that will allow us to effectively steward and sustain digital technologies at scale.

For example, Clayton Christensen's Conservation of Attractive Profits is a theory that explains how profits shift within value chains when a previously scarce and profitable part becomes commoditized. Entrepreneurs inspired by and running this playbook understand that decentralizing code production commoditizes IP, and so the value and profit will move to what's scarce (eg. the ability to run and deploy that code). In this model, if society was to successfully commoditize the platform model, profits would again shift elsewhere. We should ask ourselves if this is really true or not and test these questions through play.

Games allow us to explore different situations rapidly and under concrete rules; to enable us to test if such structures will effectively coordinate positive outcomes. The table of elements for our world includes bylaws, voting rights, legal agreements, capital flows, incentives and so on. We will rapidly assemble and dissemble collective structures and wonder together how they would navigate the messy, noisy world.

Where does centralization happen? How do you fund infrastructure growth without enshittification? What governance mechanisms actually prevent forced sales or investor capture? And how could we balance the competing interests in a deeply connected ecosystem of regulators, technologists, funds, entrepreneurs and so on?

By the end of the workshop, we will gain new language to describe the shape of any collective enterprise and all come away with a more concrete understanding of the available viable paths ahead for stewarding our collective digital infrastructure.