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Decentralizability
What makes software decentralizable? Immutable data, universal IDs, user-controlled keys.
Apr 12
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Gordon Brander
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February 2024
Create good problems to have
Create good problems to have. You want to build easy things with obvious shortcomings that create problems at scale. This may seem counterintuitive, may…
Feb 26
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Gordon Brander
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Freedom to exit
Three ways to guarantee user-owned data
Feb 5
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Gordon Brander
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January 2024
Protocols as Weberian Bureaucracy
Max Weber says there are three ways power gets organized at scale: rizz, rulers, and rules.
Jan 22
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Gordon Brander
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November 2023
Ritual technology
Seven thoughts on ritual
Nov 28, 2023
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Gordon Brander
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Artificial Intuition, not Artificial Intelligence
LLMs are Artificial Intuition, not Artificial Intelligence. I think this is a meaningful analogy? Let’s piece together a hunch from a few insights…
Nov 6, 2023
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Gordon Brander
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October 2023
Provocation-driven development
Many of the foundational computing projects started with a provocation… “Man-Computer Symbiosis” (1960) J.C.R. Licklider’s provocation transforms our…
Oct 16, 2023
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Gordon Brander
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September 2023
Noosphere at Summer of Protocols
I gave a talk about Noosphere Protocol at the Summer of Protocols program. Here’s a teaser. I go wide. We cover Noosphere, tools for thought, how the…
Sep 13, 2023
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Gordon Brander
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Fragments: vertebrate technology
Hierarchies evolve from the lowest level up—from the pieces to the whole, from cell to organ to organism, from individual to team, from actual…
Sep 7, 2023
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Gordon Brander
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August 2023
Tools for thought should evolve building blocks
What genetic algorithms can tell us about tools for thought
Aug 28, 2023
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Gordon Brander
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Subconscious Beta
Building a decentralized shared mind
Aug 16, 2023
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Gordon Brander
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Fragments: Attractors
Continued existence of complex interactive systems depend upon preventing the maximization of any variable. (Gregory Bateson quoting W. Ross Ashby…
Aug 7, 2023
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Gordon Brander
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