Blog
Essays on software, open source and AI, collected here from the sites they first appeared on.
From Memex to Think Machine: The Evolution of Knowledge Management
How the Memex, hypertext and mind maps led to Think Machine.
Thinkable Type: A Knowledge Graph Toolkit
A new information language for connecting the ideas in Hypertext: plain CSV files of connected ideas, parsed into a hypergraph with PageRank, vector search and LLM suggestions built in.
Infinity Arcade and Sparks of Generative Video Games
Large Language Models simulate entire games with a few keystrokes.
The Future of Open Source Software
Open source powers the digital economy but can't pay for itself. How self-sustaining networks could let developers capture part of the value they create, without charging users.
Disintermediating Network Effects for Fun and Profit
How to prevent Web3 from ending up like Web2: why networks get captured, and thirteen principles for protocols that stay open, leaderless and self-sustaining.
Organizations 2.0
Open, leaderless, self-sustaining organizations: how Nakamoto and Saito consensus turn age-old collective action problems into economic ones.
The Zen of Saito
Bitcoin changed how strangers cooperate, but it never balanced its own incentives. Why Saito's answer, paying for the value people create in the network, matters.
NeuralFM: Tune In to Information
A Bitcoin SV Hackathon 2020 entry: a personal news feed you control by voting on stories to train your own neural network, with every model and decision recorded on Bitcoin.
