Strategy in four worlds

Different environments require different survival strategies

Jan 11 • Gordon Brander

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October 2025

Deep Future

AI-driven scenario planning

Oct 9, 2025 • Gordon Brander

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June 2025

Cities are routers in network society

They do packet switching for people.

Jun 5, 2025 • Gordon Brander

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March 2025

The shape of network society

“I’m a McLuhan absolutist now.”

Mar 30, 2025 • Gordon Brander

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February 2025

Cryptography scales trust

Protocols are to institutions as packet switching is to circuit switching

Feb 25, 2025 • Gordon Brander

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Don't fork the ecosystem

Software can be rebuilt, because software is a machine. But a software ecosystem is not a machine. It is a living system.

Feb 16, 2025 • Gordon Brander

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December 2024

Where to draw the line?

Breaking a system down into parts

Dec 1, 2024 • Gordon Brander

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November 2024

Places to intervene in a system

(in increasing order of effectiveness)

Nov 18, 2024 • Gordon Brander

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October 2024

Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr

P2P and federated protocols converge toward becoming Nostr, but with extra steps

Oct 13, 2024 • Gordon Brander

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September 2024

The Zombocom Problem

Welcome to zombocom… you can do anything at zombocom… anything at all… the only limit… is yourself…

Sep 28, 2024 • Gordon Brander

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August 2024

Raw intuitions about startups

It’s n=1 samples, so hold it lightly.

Aug 3, 2024 • Gordon Brander

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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, 2024 • Gordon Brander

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