Subconscious | Gordon Brander | Substack

Many structured ways of knowing seem to roughly fall into one of several spatial structures: lists, trees, grids, and networks.

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Jul 31

I’ve just started reading Inventing the Internet by Janet Abbate. The opening chapters are great, narrating Paul Baran’s efforts at RAND to design a…

Jul 23

So there’s this idea from evolutionary ecology called r/K selection theory. The gist is that many species seem to converge toward one of two extreme…

Jul 18

Is acceptably non-dystopian digital identity even possible?

Jul 11

...but decentralization is right behind it.

Jun 27

There are three ideal properties you want from a good naming system: Secure. The name reliably points to what it is supposed to, and not to an imposter…

Jun 5

“Indirection” is pointing to something by name or reference, rather than pointing to the thing itself. Indirection is everywhere in computing. Pointers…

May 27

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