The hidden undertow of building an audience: the audience, more often, builds you instead.

A big reason big tech companies invest in open source software is to “commoditize the complement” (see this classic Joel Spolsky post on the topic joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/str…).

Favored hypothesis: New cases spike is due to an attribute of the network not of the variant.

Good reply. Twitter fitsages will benefit from interrogating the causes of addiction, not its forms.

Indeed. An occasion is political if-and-only-if it could entail winners and losers. That is to say nearly all occasions. It's probably more useful for us to ask '*how political is this moment?'

Rad. I want me a pair of them "Albedos."

We are ever-embedded in nested scopes of consent. That makes this maxim interesting. I wager that "consent networks" are an essential determinant of any social contract, and a yet-under-implemented one in decentralized governance designs. Ideamarket.io is doing good work.

"Crypto has no real value." The net value of an asset must always include the costs required to store or exchange it. Therefore, any medium that programmatically reduces those costs, at minimum, is worth that difference. The medium makes all assets on it more valuable.

Oh wow my people *are out there

2011 me needs to hear this

Oh. Following this fella now for smart productivity takes.