Notes
Things I’m thinking about, learning from, and trying to make sense of. Writing them down usually helps.
Giving Selfso a face
A little personality for the people behind the profiles.
What a time to be alive
Things I used to leave on a list are suddenly worth trying.
- Change
Enter the maze
Ideas take shape while we make them.
- Process
What arises together
Online, I’m Superhuge. Somehow.
- Change
Your people are now findable
The time is right. Your people are findable.
- Network state
The group is the missing object on the internet
The internet understands people and posts. The group is still missing.
- Network state
When groups find one another
The network grows when smaller rooms open doors to one another.
- Groups
- Networks
The physical internet
How an online group becomes physical: one room, a few tools and somebody with the key.
- Groups
- Places
- Social software
- Local life
Not every yes means the same thing
A better collective signal: let people care more, make repetition expensive, and let another person matter.
- Collective decisions
- Quadratic voting
- Public goods
- Mechanism design
Everything is also a verb
More range. More play. More things made.
- Process
- Change
I have it when I can give it away
An idea changes when somebody else receives it.
- Change
It keeps getting better
AI gets better. The system gets better. My way of working changes with both.
- Tools
- Change