https://bradjasper.com/blog/ Essays by Brad Jasper on software, open source and AI. en https://bradjasper.com/blog/evolution-of-knowledge-management/ https://bradjasper.com/blog/evolution-of-knowledge-management/ How the Memex, hypertext and mind maps led to Think Machine. Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://bradjasper.com/blog/thinkable-type/ https://bradjasper.com/blog/thinkable-type/ 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. Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://bradjasper.com/blog/sparks-of-generative-video-games/ https://bradjasper.com/blog/sparks-of-generative-video-games/ Large Language Models simulate entire games with a few keystrokes. Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://bradjasper.com/blog/the-future-of-open-source-software/ https://bradjasper.com/blog/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. Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://bradjasper.com/blog/disintermediating-network-effects-for-fun-and-profit/ https://bradjasper.com/blog/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. Thu, 23 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://bradjasper.com/blog/organizations-2/ https://bradjasper.com/blog/organizations-2/ Open, leaderless, self-sustaining organizations: how Nakamoto and Saito consensus turn age-old collective action problems into economic ones. Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://bradjasper.com/blog/the-zen-of-saito/ https://bradjasper.com/blog/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. Thu, 04 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://bradjasper.com/blog/neuralfm/ https://bradjasper.com/blog/neuralfm/ 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. Tue, 18 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT