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Gongkai, meaning 'open' or 'to make public,' represents a fundamentally different approach to intellectual property and knowledge sharing compared to Western models. Rather than the Western...
Cassettes are reusable, single-purpose functions designed to lower the barrier to entry for community members who want to contribute new features to a bot ecosystem without requiring deep technical...
Online education represents a fundamentally different mode of learning, not merely a compromise or substitute for in-person instruction. Rather than attempting to recreate classroom dynamics...
The essay describes how the moonshot model has been widely imitated by organizations that lack Google's resources and commitment, resulting in diluted versions of the original formula. These...
The essay critiques how the moonshot narrative has been commodified and imitated by organizations seeking prestige and funding without genuine commitment to solving problems. These 'counterfeit moon...
The content presents a strategic case for building many specialized, single-purpose AI systems rather than pursuing general artificial intelligence moonshots. Narrow AI systems are designed to handle...
Cellular automata serve as a powerful model for understanding emergent ecosystem behavior, where simple rule sets create complex, often unpredictable dynamics. Conway's Game of Life exemplifies this...
Georges Bataille's economic philosophy challenges the scarcity-driven logic that underpins modern capitalism by proposing an economy organized around excess and abundance rather than extraction and...
The post examines the moonshot framework popularized by Google X, which aims for 10x impact through massive resource investment in seemingly unsolvable problems. The author traces the concept's...
The choice of tools fundamentally shapes what problems we can perceive and solve. When we become proficient with specific tools—our 'hammers'—we tend to frame all problems as requiring those tools,...
Peter Sloterdijk's foam concept offers a reframing of internet fragmentation from a negative phenomenon into a positive celebration of multiplicity. Rather than viewing the internet as broken...
Rizom Brains treats plain markdown files with YAML frontmatter as the single source of truth, ensuring portability, version control compatibility, and tool-agnostic editing capabilities. This design...
AI winters are reframed not as failures but as evolutionary moments that selected certain approaches over others. The first winter (1974-1980) eliminated bottom-up learning in favor of rule-based...
Radical automation is presented as a core principle for tackling low-hanging fruit in AI implementation—automating every laborious and boring chore that can be automated to prevent talent waste. The...
Ecosystem architecture is a forward-thinking practice that blends decentralized systems with regenerative design principles to address complex challenges. Rather than viewing organizations as...
Voting with your feet is a fundamental principle of healthy ecosystems that enables freedom of movement and exit. Drawing from natural systems where organisms migrate in response to environmental...
Public Badges represents a practical tool designed to address the trust crisis by enabling organizations to collect and communicate evidence about their values and trustworthiness to users. Rather...
The article explores how emerging technologies enable fundamentally new ways of organizing work outside traditional institutional hierarchies. Rather than remote work or gig platforms, this...
The rapid innovation cycle inherent to the shanzhai model generates significant environmental costs that represent a critical tension within the ecosystem. The accelerated turnover of electronic...
The essay identifies a critical problem in contemporary digital culture: the collapse of trust relations across both online and offline spaces, where governments distrust citizens, citizens distrust...
Filter bubbles represent curated digital spaces where algorithms and shared values create communities rather than merely isolated echo chambers. The essay challenges the narrative that filter bubbles...