Say that we agree to define collaboration as a group’s ability to coordinate effort to produce some work output. I believe that the effectiveness of collaboration improves in direct proportion to: how easy it is to create social spaces in which to do that coordination, the degree of composability of those social spaces (especially nesting) […]
Author: zippy
Where and the Grammatics of Location
Consider playing soccer or football blindfolded. Unless you have gotten really good with echolocation, playing the game becomes impossible for the simple reason that you stop being able to answer the questions “where is the ball?” and “where are my teammates?”. More subtly, consider the difficulties of having hard or delicate conversations using just a […]
Decentralized Next-level Collaboration Apps with Syn
Usually I am more energized by building tech than by talking about it, but I am so excited about what my son and I did over winter break, that I just have to share about it here. In an odd kind of busman’s holiday, I spent a good chunk of my time off writing a […]
Supremacy Consciousness, Grammatic Capacity, & Play
As is pretty obvious I don’t write much here. My focus for the last 4 years has been pretty singular on getting Holochain and Holo built. And writing takes me a long time. I also have a hard time writing to the void of the Internet, I need to be in a direct conversation to share […]
The App: from Killer to Mother
The Wikipedia defines “Killer App” as a marketing term for “any computer program that is so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of some larger technology.” Not surprising that the term comes from marketing, that branch of business devoted to competing for customers and trying to kill off the competition. But if […]
Current-see and Death Straight Talk
I haven’t written much lately, I guess I’ve been busy… mostly with two things: Cancer & Ceptr. Currently, my time is about living with a spouse with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer and all that it takes to support her as well I can. My work is about building tools for a post-monetary society; creating […]
Behold, the magpi…
And, YAAP (Yet Another Arduino Project), the Micro Arduino Gaming Platform Interface. Finally I’ve done the “shareable value” part of putting together an instructables for how to make the retro-game controller I built for (and with) Will for Christmas. I love this video of Will demoing it: