Thread to drop aphorisms from kickoff call
Left unchecked, protocols will grow big enough to require a simpler meta-protocol
A game is a protocol that you can admit is fun
The more danger, the more compression, the more protocol.
Like language itself, protocols are compression mechanisms for common knowledge.
Protocols are about clarity and thus accessibility.
A great protocol goes unnoticed.
Protocols begin where organizations end.
Protocols structure the present, leading us towards more likely futures
protocols are just apologies for a messy reality
Protocols are self-driving project managers
If you don’t teach machines and horses to do what you want in their way, they’ll teach you to do what they want in your way.
–Ursula K. Le Guin
A few trusted protocols a day keeps civilizational collapse away.