First published to the AKASHA blog. Who doesn’t love a good concept?! Concepts are the fundamental building blocks of thinking, of designing. While there are plenty of things in the mix when it comes to contemplating system design, if the primary concepts remain unchallenged and unchanged from what came before…

First published to my blog. It is important to understand the ways in which software may be conjured into the world for the simple reason that software and information technologies more generally have immense social and economic impact. The genesis of such process has been called software architecture, and there…

First published to the Ethereum World blog. Our first blog post on the myths and challenges of social network moderating and the direction we’re heading in for decentralized social networking elicited some agreeable feedback but also this response: “I don’t agree with your views about moderation. …

First published to the generative identity website. No two people can share an exact understanding of anything deep and meaningful simply because we each have different contexts. Conversation relies upon and can never wholly substitute for context. …

Originally posted to the Ethereum World blog. In light of the Trump ban, far right hate speech, and the plainly weird QAnon conspiracy theories, the world’s attention is increasingly focused on the moderation of and by social media platforms. Our work at AKASHA is founded on the belief that humans…

Originally published by Omidyar Network’s Good ID. As Einstein intimated [1], everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. …

First published to the generative identity website. Phil Windley claims that a technology stack consisting of self-sovereign identity (SSI) and related technologies has all the qualities of generativity. He does so in his latest blog post with reference to Jonathan Zittrain’s 2006 paper The Generative Internet. …