Today I was looking at governance and the need for facilitators. Facilitators basically run the program that is the spec process. Merging drafts after a sanity check, maybe helping generate IDs and ensure there are tracking and discussion issues. I can see some need for CI dev and maintaining shell or python scripts.

It's definiitely going be fun trying to catch up with the 1000+ PRs since I last took a close look at NIPs. For a while I tracked any NIP in whatever state and I don't see myself catching up with that. But at least I can get acquainted with the chaintip and then work the process, whatever that ends up being.

Sinec then I've seen that process blossom into a place where much has been publshed with minimal conflict. It's impossible to know the effect but it feels good to have a played a small part in picking it up and sending it on. So I'm using that FEP process, BIP, RFC, everything as inspiration to create this new thing.

My experience with Nostr goes back a ways. When I first heard about it I was working on a mastodon fork, trying to prove out a merge-first approach to community software development and also helping to get a standards process for the Fediverse past the first hurdle of ratifying itself.

What I have now is a set of docs and specs that attempt to formalize a small part of Nostr's collection of protocol docs. My plan is to work on it a bit more and then put it out there. At the moment there's versioning and schemas but what most excites me is a clear and accountable process for publishing everything from experiements to information to what would today be a NIP.

Great to see people I follow mostly devs still here. I've been away from social media preferring to work on hands on arts like music and painting. Of course I have hopes for decentralized social media that are always with me. Visions of systems that mirror the infinite possibility of life, a global town square with the same safety of the crowd that I feel in the offline world.

Gm 🤙

Inspired me to try more brushes in Procreate and then frustrated with that, actual oil painting.

Sat down yesterday to write a page about wisdom for Nostr and this is what came out April 24th, 2024 - Wisdom, Competition and Success Nostr is a strangely wise place. It's good because it helps us appreciate what we have while sharing collective insights about the future. For example we know Nostr is small but that each platform that grows and dies gives us a chance to make it the next big one. Talk to a CEO in their early days and they tend to be idealistic wishing to democratize the net or disrupt finance but time and time again as the numbers grow they get more focused on the bottom line. The money and power displace the ideals. This is one reason we believe decentralization is so important. It places a ceiling on how much power any one entity can amass. The downside of this however is it can extend as a philosophy into everything. No relay should get too big. No client should get too much market share or strong-arm the protocol. In this way romance for freedom and decentralization can majorly slow us down. We know our principles around open source software, resiliency of decentralization and the freedom to tinker. We'll always have those. It's important however to be mindful that competition to create the next dominant platform is fierce. The wise path is to rally around what's working best today.

What I don't understand is if the Agents can take away Neo's mouth how come they can't like take away all of the hackers legs when they try to run?

Been watching the Matrix trilogy this week and finding a lot more there than when it first came out. At first I was put off by the humans as batteries thing but once you get past that, the embedded philosophy feels prescient with respect to how digital our lives have become. Always fun to see the red/blue pilling scene as well. Also enjoyed this article tying the story in with other works.

Five Books

Quantum Physics and Reality

The best books for thinking through the complicated relationship between quantum physics and reality, as recommended by science writer Jim Baggott.

#matrix #redpill #bluepill

Been watching the Matrix trilogy this week and finding a lot more there than when it first came out. At first I was put off by the humans as batteries thing but once you get past that, the embedded philosophy feels prescient with respect to how digital our lives have become. Always fun to see the red/blue pilling scene as well.

It's great to see and hear people talking about Web of Trust. I may have a wierd idea of fun but that's pretty much why I built noswot.org. That and WoT has been a topic of interest for years. Took a break from it and Nostr for a while but feeling each day like there's unfinished business. Looking forward to discover the aha moment that I'm sure we'll have with WoT.

Thinking about buying a typewriter. Any nostrites been there done that? Writing by hand every day has been amazing so a typewriter feels like a natural next step. #asknostr

I need help finishing songs! Recorded this last night and not sure where it'll go. If you play guitar or sing maybe it's worth a jam. 🥁🎹🎸