James Harris - Entrepreneur-in-Residence and leader of ATDC’s North Star AI Lab - presented Agentic Mutual Aid Societies at Mond(ai)y Coffee on Sunday, August 17.
James’s vision for buzz.xyz and the startup ecosystem is a modern-day coffeehouse: a place where startups share not just ideas, but tokens and GPUs.
What might mutual aid look like when agents can help a community coordinate its knowledge, computational resources, and upside?
Meeting Notes
In 2014, I wrote a blog post with this footnote:
“If someone has the time and talent, I’d love to see a piece of art called Babar’s Bazaar.”
In 2026, I wondered what would happen if I asked the robots to execute that vision.
A minute later, I had this.
Wild times.
I was thinking about that post because James Harris gave a presentation on his idea of “Agentic Mutual Aid Societies.”
His vision for buzz.xyz and the startup ecosystem is a modern-day coffeehouse: a place where startups share not just ideas, but tokens and GPUs.
Maybe, if we ask nicely, James will share his deck here too.