Zones and Trajectories on the Autonomy Plane

Power asymmetries have consistently driven the pursuits of egalitarian ideals. Some of them had lasting consequences: Athenian democratic reforms, the Gracchi brother's land reforms in Ancient Rome, the Venetian republic, the Peasants revolt in the Middle ...

The first cohesion spectrum was simple and formed a nice acronym, CABIN. It had some zones right. It also had serious issues, but exposing them was helpful in this journey. When trying to find solutions for them, I realized two things. One is that I need t...

You have to choose between speed and safety. You can't get both. That's what common sense tells us, and common practice confirms. And then, there are the roundabouts. So simple and yet they miraculously increase both throughput and safety. Roundabouts redu...

Nostr is another effort to build an open social network on the Web, and it's very different than ActivityPub. Here's how it works.