We’re building business infrastructure. As with other kinds of infrastructure (like hosting or electricity), we'd like to make it available to as broad a set of users as possible.
Open Source infrastructure deserves a business model
Open Source infrastructure is essential, invisible, and chronically underfunded. A more sustainable approach may be to connect the cost of running that infrastructure to the organizations that rely on it most.
Making Business Personal
Business can be a form of activism, art, spirituality, and creative expression.
Minimum Viable Infrastructure
Minimum Viable Infrastructure Innovation often emerges not solely from brilliant ideas but from the infrastructure readiness that makes those ideas viable. Consider the progression of mobile consumer internet applications over the past two decades: Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok. Their lau...
There is NO Open Source Business Model
Preface: It has been brought to my attention by friends and trusted advisors that a valid interpretation of my point below is that open…
A Polycentric Governance Lens on Data Infrastructures
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) - Funding policies for data infrastructure promote open data sharing to drive positive social impact. However, concerns regarding the long-term management...
The politics of purely client-side apps - Paul's Leaflets
There's a surprisingly nuanced discussion in development about the political economy of clients and servers in the Atmosphere
The politics of purely client-side apps - Paul's Leaflets
There's a surprisingly nuanced discussion in development about the political economy of clients and servers in the Atmosphere
The Paradox of Open
Numerous organisations and initiatives have been launched with a belief in openness and free knowledge. Their proponents placed their bets on the combined power of networked information services and new governance models for the production and sharing of content and data. We – as members of this broad movement – were among those who believed it possible to leverage this combination of power and opportunity to build a more democratic society, unleashing the power of the internet to create universal access to knowledge and culture. For us, such openness meant not only freedom, but also presented a path to justice and equality.
The web can be weaponised – and we can't count on big tech to stop it | Tim Berners-Lee
It’s dangerous having a handful of companies control how ideas and opinions are shared. A regulator may be needed
EFFecting Change: How to Build a Decentralized Web That Truly Works for All
Top 5 Limitations of Google BeyondCorp | Twingate
Google BeyondCorp pioneered Zero Trust at scale—but it was built for Google. Here are the top 5 limitations for organizations trying to apply it themselves.
Connect, protect, and build everywhere
Make employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost.
Decentralized Social Media for 40 Million+ Users (with Bluesky’s Jay Graber)
Why Internet Infrastructure Decisions Rarely Stay Localized - Internet Society
Even narrow policy choices can have ripple effects that shape what people can access, how information moves, and who can participate online.
One thing I continue to see missing in many atproto discussions is some of the things businesses need. Example: I see website builders but I haven't seen permission-ed logins for multiple people to access them. Ways for a publication to have mult authors & the journalists to also own their content.
