Archive - Squishy Computer

Raw intuitions about startups

It’s n=1 samples, so hold it lightly.

Aug 3 •

June 2024

Subconscious is Squishy Computer

This newsletter is getting rebooted as my personal lab notebook, a place to post trail markers as I continue to navigate the idea maze around AI…

Jun 15 •

May 2024

Subconscious is winding down

Subconscious started with an idea: to amplify intelligence using a worldwide decentralized knowledge graph. In 2022, we raised a seed and started…

May 16 •

April 2024

Decentralizability

What makes software decentralizable? Immutable data, universal IDs, user-controlled keys.

Apr 12 •

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 •

Freedom to exit

Three ways to guarantee user-owned data

Feb 5 •

January 2024

Protocols as Weberian Bureaucracy

Max Weber says there are three ways power gets organized at scale: rizz, rulers, and rules.

Jan 22 •

November 2023

Ritual technology

Seven thoughts on ritual

Nov 28, 2023 •

Artificial Intuition, not Artificial Intelligence

LLMs are Artificial Intuition, not Artificial Intelligence.

Nov 6, 2023 •

October 2023

Provocation-driven development

Many of the foundational computing projects started with a provocation…

Oct 16, 2023 •

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 •

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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