Systems
Conditions for conviviality. Illich described a convivial tool as one a person can use without being used by it. This shelf asks whether that can be specified in infrastructure: exit that costs nothing (Hirschman), changes proposed rather than imposed, privacy at the protocol layer, and compute whose cost is visible. Agentix, IMPP, Agora and CarbonBench are attempts to build to those conditions and see where they break.
Threads: Exit Rights, Sovereignty as Design, The Agent Economy, Carbon-Aware Compute, Agentix: Building a Safe Control Layer for NixOS
Sources
- Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality (1973)
- Albert O. Hirschman, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (1970)
- Bruno Latour, “Where Are the Missing Masses?” (1992)
Headline Projects
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Simplifying merchant crypto UX through passkeys, externally owned accounts, and chain-level fee abstraction. The thesis: smart-account maximalism is the wrong …
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An experiment in removing three dependencies at once. What happens when an AI agent marketplace has no hosted LLM, no …
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A thought experiment that became a prototype: what if a whistleblower platform had no server at all? No server to …
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