No Solutions

“I don’t believe in Utopia anymore. I’m too old for that.” In this dialogue: Where is the Utopia that the internet promised? “ Neither nostalgia nor utopia ” Net Neutrality is a moral stance Where did the internet go wrong? Tech as a tool; is tech always neutral? Technology that increases agency VS tech that enslaves Competition  vs  Symbiosis “W...

“You’ll get all that for free if you build it right” In this dialogue: 01: Start Ugly 02: There is No Global Concept of ownership & “ Read, Write, Own ” Shamir Secret Sharing and Timelocks “No amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.” You can’t prove deletion of a key (or anything, really); best you can do is “ burn ” bitcoi...

“We do not have the answers." In this dialogue: What is this No Solutions thing anyway? Why dialogue and distributed cognition is so important Why is nostr exiting for developers? Evolution, Life, and nostr What is the perfect nostr app, and why can’t there be THE perfect nostr app? Why there is no “global” view in nostr Impossible problems vs. possible (but still hard) pro...

“We have the chance of building the next iteration of the internet, and hopefully, not repeat the mistakes of the past." In this dialogue: Why starting ugly and shipping early is hard The ugliest thing that Pablo ever shipped “Happiness is shipping” Make it real first, you can make it pretty later Getting into the habit of shipping Highlighter and the hang-up of shipping somethin...

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