I have a lapsed [[LogSeq]] site at https://notes.bmannconsulting.com. [[Wikilinks]] (represented by square brackets) that don't have local pages link out to external notes.

Below are some pathways into the garden, and seeds of ideas and concepts.

Recent#

• Lots of [[Mastodon]], [[Bluesky]] and general future of [[DecentSocial]]
• The [[dark forest]] and [[cozyweb]] are important concepts for thinking about the web today
• I think a lot about [[commons funding]]. I haven't done enough original writing about it. [[Open Collective]] is a great platform I recommend for managing funding and disbursement, without needing a foundation or organization of any kind.

Seeds#

To sum things up, we’re trying to run a planetary society that needs to solarpunk the fuck out of itself in a hurry on the collective intelligence of an 18th century principality that’s heard of the Enlightenment from some guy at the pub.

— [[The Internet Transition]] by [[Robin Berjon]] [[governance]]

It’s so powerfully obvious to me, it might as well be written in ten-foot letters of flame: the platforms of the last decade are done.

I said it in April 2022, and I believe it even more today: their only conclusion can be abandonment; an overdue MySpace-ification.

— [[A Year of New Avenues]], by [[Robin Sloan]]

Unlike the main public internet, which runs on the (human) protocol of “users” clicking on links on public pages/apps maintained by “publishers”, the cozyweb works on the (human) protocol of everybody cutting-and-pasting bits of text, images, URLs, and screenshots across live streams. Much of this content is poorly addressable, poorly searchable, and very vulnerable to bitrot.

— [[The Extended Interent Universe]], by [[Venkatesh Rao]] [[dark forest]] [[cozyweb]]

Software companies founded today are competing less with pen and paper than with other Internet-first incumbents. Put another way, as happens in every maturing industry before it, Internet company revenue will become zero-sum. As a corollary, the time between founding years of software startups and their competitive incumbents is shrinking:

— [[When Tailwinds Vanish]] [[future of venture]]