I build software, and I write about how things hold together.
Most of it comes out of two organisations: Obsidian Delta, which makes the machinery, and the DAX Foundation, which holds the part a company should not.
Some of what I am working on
The thinking underneath the rest of it — a framework for constraint and emergence, and what it takes for structure to form and then hold. Published in full, dead ends included, and meant to be argued with.
An open, public ledger for declaring constraints and making conduct under them transparent. Neutral to the constraint and to the kind of entity that holds it. Public working draft.
Where the constraint is held rather than in a company: preservation and expansion of life, humanity, and consciousness, with the definitions it runs on stated in the open.
Keeping it going
The writing here is free and it stays free. If any of it was worth something to you, you can keep me going while I build the rest — Ko-fi will offer you a one-off amount or a monthly one, and neither buys anything. No tiers, no perks, and nothing you get that someone who gives nothing does not.
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Writing
Twenty-eight points in human history where meaning was assigned to people by something that was not those people — the one property none of them had, and the reason the speed matters more than the mechanism.
On the release of Fuckery v0.51 — a constraint–process–valuation ontology, demonstrated rather than described.