Live versus Dead Players

Founders Hub | Transform Finance

The founder playbook for building a company that lasts and stays true to why you started it. Research, case studies, and practical tools for incorporation, fundraising terms, board structure, ownership, and culture.

Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss

Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

The Metagame

Notes on Paul Graham's "How to Get Startup Ideas"

Guide to Incrementals/Appeal to Players | The Paper Pilot

The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology

The Evolution of Trust

an interactive guide to the game theory of why & how we trust each other

Build, gather, brawl, repeat: The history of real-time strategy games

As we wait on a new Age of Empires this fall, let's revisit the RTS genre's highs and lows.

Profit, cost, price, learned societies; further thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market

Since I last wrote, I have had a few more thoughts on Samuel Moore’s book. Again, these are not necessarily things that he does not discuss or things that he should have discussed. They are merely thoughts that occurred to me in response to reading his work.

Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider

Read the free, open access editionBuy: Amazon, Bookshop, Narrow Gauge Book Co-op, UC Press

Pluralistic: Kickstarting “The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI” (14 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

My next book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, will be out in about a month – and (once again) Amazon's monopoly audiobook platform refuses to carry it, and so (once again) I'm pre-selling the audio, ebook and print edition in a Kickstarter campaign that proves that DRM-free isn't just the right way to reach an audience, it's also the best way to reach them:

17. A Value for n-Person Games

17. A Value for n-Person Games was published in Contributions to the Theory of Games, Volume II on page 307.

How we got here

Wherein our hero, in this publication's inaugural, dates himself (as if others would) in a reminiscence of computers and websites past.

“We need to reinvent the co-op” – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider

Originally published by Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice in a series on “Cooperatives and Religious Communities.”