8 entries for January 2025

Our Crisis of Imagination

We’re trapped in an era of fatalism, unable to envision alternatives to the models of ownership and funding beyond current extractive defaults. We’ve agreed that innovation can touch every aspect of our lives — except the structures that shape them. This isn’t just a failure of imagination — it’s a feature of those very structures.

From Protest to Proposal

Proposals require us to answer difficult questions that protesting alone does not: Who will build it? How will it be funded? How will it compete and self-sustain? What trade-offs are we willing to accept?

psa to please help your friends setup tech alternatives as a social event: switch together so everyone transitions successfully with known contacts on the new platform. lone profiles leave momentum on the table.

like a paywall requires money to access, a nerdwall requires technical knowhow

[Getting near is important for seeing clear. If we avoid those who think differently, our understanding risks to be superficial.]

from observing what you see to observing how you watch

when heading somewhere people ask “have everything you’ll need?” and as a backpacker i respond “i took everything i have”.

when someone uses a different system of understanding than yours, responding with “try my system instead” is not convincing.