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The anarchist writer and poet Hakim Bey first coined the term Temporary Autonomous Zone ("TAZ") in 1991. Burning Man is a community driven TAZ where its participants temporarily liberate a space from state control and market forces for one week each year. Through decentralization, Blockchain technology achieves something similar, only more persistent. Unfortunately, unskillful habits from our crumbling default world have been carried over to the Blockchain. What lessons can be learned from Burning Man? How do we give one another permission to reinvent ourselves and practice both radical inclusion with others and radical self-expression with ourselves? Equally importantly, how do we reward immediacy while also investing the time and the care required to build equitable and ethical foundations for the future?