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Software is is not a scarce resource. It costs nothing to copy. It is an anti-rivalrous good. Cryptocurrency is a market, markets are for scarcity, sof…
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100 Rabbits is the practice of two creatives who write, illustrate, compose, and build software while living on a sailboat. Working out of a nomadic fl…
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Here is a weird idea… slashlinks! The hashtag of links! A shortcut for linking to local notes that works like #hashtags or @mentions.
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The web is the world’s biggest software platform that isn’t owned. There are other closed networked software platforms but very few open ones. The web …
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The landscape of tech is essentially feudal. Each app builds a moat and walls to protect the hoard of data its peasants produce. This is both for reaso…
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What’s next for the web? I’ve spent a good chunk of my career trying to answer this question in practice, making the web do things it maybe shouldn’t, …
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TLDR: “make the web do apps” is not a disruptive strategy. It's like surviving The Great Oxidation Event, then saying “make anaerobes do photosynthesis…
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I think this is more than just a poetic analogy. It is a shift in perspective that can be grounded in cybernetics theory, particularly Gordon Pask’s Co…
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Interoperability, exchange, and composition are some of my primary motivations for building Subconscious. Why isn’t interoperability more common betwee…
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I’ve been studying the history of the internet, and reading through internet RFCs to better understand the series of design decisions that lead up to o…
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In 1964, Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev proposed that we measure an alien civilization's level of technological advancement by the amount of energ…
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The internet is one of the greatest open-ended technologies our species has created, up there with language, writing, money, math, markets. How do you …
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