People really need to coordinate on problems with other people. This is a very persistent element of technology work and I think we'll get a lot of mess for a while but it was really broken for many before. Groups that already could learn & collaborate are figuring it out imho
May 30, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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Hypothesis: the simple act of each of us publicly sharing more what we're paying attention to (reading, watching, ..) would dramatically enhance collective sensemaking. In open source software they say "With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow"- perhaps there is a parallel for open source *attention*?
I can see a whole lot of people agreeing with this. Kinda the same with open source in general, but few open source projects are social protocols seeking widespread adoption. It's a particular flavor of narrative disconnection from reality we have to bridge out of to get out of our own way.
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Every @proto developer sounds like this to me:
