Archive • Danny's Filecoin-Centric Monologue • Buttondown

2025-06-24: MetaG0v, Comms, The Dumbest of Phones

Working on: Metametagov Call with Liz Barry 🄽, intro’d by @Kaitlin Donovan who recognized that she peppers conversations with the same buckshot I do —...

2025-06-23: Grief, Language, and IPNI

Working on: Some things never change, and other things change beyond belief: I am, as ever, scrabbling to catch up with almost everything, but this time it...

2024-08-21: Government, Little AIs, Fridges

August 22, 2024

Working on: The Governance Game (The actual Governance Game is on github). Right up there on the list of things for me to catch up on was the Filecoin...

2024-08-20: Back, Back, Baaack

August 20, 2024

Working on: Unzipping, Decompressing I’m always a bit torn after a hiatus in a “daily” exercise (coughs discreetly in the direction of this newsletter): do I...

2024-06-26: Audiences, Reviews, Reactors

Working on: Reviews Hello! This week I had, and gave, performance reviews. There is a natural irony in getting compliments on what you have achieved, in a...

2024-06-17: Sleep, Walking, Wrong

Working on: Not Sleep-Working When doing a lot of Europe-facing work in the 2010s, I developed an ability to wake up to an alarm at 3AM, participate fully...

2024-06-12: Not Writing, Changing, Hacking

Working on: The Not Writing For over a decade every single week I wrote a newspaper column, sometimes two: in the London Sunday Times, and the Irish Times...

2024-06-12: Do-ocracy, Home-Cooked Code, Missing People

Working on: Doing the do-ocracy Things are moving along in the STFIL case. The Hanshou police have put out a statement; there’s a group of Chinese lessors...

2024-06-10: Horse, On, Climbing Back

Working on: Negotiations Two hour, intense meeting with one of the groups seeking a positive resolution in the STFIL 🄽 case. They wanted us to do a bunch of...

2024-06-05: Tops, Tails, Tone

Three Things I Did At Work 1. Topped and tailed It’s no-meeting Wednesday at the Foundation, which means I have zoom calls with those who don’t keep Sabbath...

2024-06-04: Travel, Form, Content

Three Things I Did At Work Travel and surviving it Ah, I knew I wouldn’t be able to keep this daily update up and travel to Consensus 2024 🄽 at the same...

2024-05-23: Gold, Golden, Goldest

Three Things I Did At Work 1. Distributed rewards Well, not yet, with FIL-RetroPGF-1 , but I'm beginning to think about how to do it. It's going to be...

2024-05-22: Votes, Votes, National Security

Three Things I Did At Work 1. Opened the Envelope The FIL-RetroPGF-1 🄽 (remember that?) is done, and the awardees were announced. I'm glad that the couple of...

2024-05-21: Speed, Consensus, Booms

Three Things I Did At Work 1. Sped Down How fast should things go? I have a feeling of going up the rollercoaster, where the machinery s-l-o-w-l-y ratchets...

2024-05-17: Rhymes, Go, Wanix

[I know, it's Monday/Tuesday, and this is Friday's edition. I'm caught in a time-loop! Normal service will be resumed yesterday!] Three Things I Did (on...

2024-05-16: Code, Cards, Bums

Three Things I Did At Work Today 1. Code-headed I could never have been a programmer — I'm not a good coder, for one thing, but also because the kick I get...

2024-05-15: Concepts, Retros, Tyres

Three Things I Did At Work Today 1. Concept Noted Ever since I joined the Filecoin Foundation , I've wanted to do a joint with NLNet 🄽 , and today I spent...

2024-05-14: Jesus, Jail, Desirability

Three Things I Did 1. Policy-ificated Our regular meeting to pour over regulation. There’s a bill that’s perambulating through the US Congress which is —...

2024-05-13: PTO, GPT, ISLISP

Three Things I Did 1. PTOed I'm a fragile little thing, sometimes, and after spending most of this weekend asleep and eating an entirely carbivore diet, I...

2024-05-09: Vagueness, Quiet, Orson Welles

Three Things I Did 1. Stared into space I declined a couple of meetings where I would not be missed (I hope!), mainly to scribble things down and pull things...

2024-05-08: Extrapolation, Extropians, Extravagance

Three Things I Did 1. War roomed Up at 7AM (despite the late night), to participate in a “war room” session, planning some of the work for the next year of...

2024-05-07: Community, Trouble, Anytype

Three Things I Did 1. Communed It’s our quarterly Social Impact Community call, which is a combo of lightning talks and breakout groups with some of the...

2024-05-06: Anger, Spats, and Uncentered text

Three Things I Did 1. Lost my temper “Do people at your work know that when British people apologise that much it means they’re really angry?” Well, look,...

2024-05-03: SNAFUs, JSON, SW

Three Things I Did 1. Reviewed Still pondering the FIL-RetroPGF-1🄽 candidates; there’s over a hundred of them. Some of them are major projects in the...

2024-05-02: Taught, taught, tort.

Three Things I Did 1. Got taught about RetroPGF voting. A couple of zoom calls today turned into single-person tutorials, which was actually kind of fun. The...

2024-05-01: Back, back, back!

Three Things I Did 1. Got back on my horse Missed a couple of days! I spent Monday evening (when I generally do these updates) with Kurt Opsahl🄽 and our...

2024-04-26: Failures, Slapstick, Hot Loading

Three Things I Did 1. Screwed up I mean, not badly, but I was tired last night, and I was confused, and rather than resolve my confusion, I carefully...

2024-04-25: Webinars, Emacs, Tor

Three Things I Did 1. Honked on about Decentralized Archives Actually, TechSoup🄽 ran a great air-quote webinar air-unquote, and boy do I not say “good” and...

2024-04-24: Co-ops, Mac apps, Tiktoks

Three Things I Did 1. Talked with the Distributed Press🄽 folks I love ‘em! It’s a co-operative project with Hypha Collective🄽 and Sutty🄽, one a US workers...

2024-04-23: Numbers, TechSoup, Krazam

Three Things I Did 1. Checked in with the Numbers Protocol folks We have a lot of crossover with their work, and they’re one of the chains that Starling Lab🄽...

2024-04-22: Shanties, diplomacy, and promises.

Three Things I Did At Work 1. Soft persuasion In a decentralized system, you have very little command abilities. There are far more elements than you can...

2024-04-19: Checking in, Coding Hacks, In the Zone

Three Things I Did At Work 1. Hacked on Code I’m never really sure of the value me hacking on code. I’m a pretty crappy coder, but I know when it could...

2024-04-18: Context Switches, WTFs, Chinese App Stores

Three Things I Did At Work 1. Briefly Switched to Other Stuff Eek! The next FIL-RetroPGF-1🄽 deadline is fast approaching — it’s on Monday. I’ve been focused...

2024-04-17: Meetings, Limits, Charlie Brown

Three Things I Did At Work 1. Had Meetings A lot of Filecoin people are in town this week, with many face-to-face meetings. My shoulder is still painful, so...

2024-04-16: Lurkers, Rewilding, Naps

Three Things I Did At Work 1. Communicated, I hope Spent what might — had you been creepily watching me last night, pecking out words and delete them for...

2024-04-15: Gossip, Safety, Money

Three Things I Did 1. Worked over the Weekend It was, at last, Funding the Commons Berkeley 2024🄽 this weekend. I ran a couple of workshops on the Saturday...

2024-04-12: Jails, Tattoos, Tsarists

Three Things I Did At Work 1. Was a spokesperson Corporate Comms in a multiple platform world is so weird. I found myself talking through a re-edit of a...

2024-04-11: Mind Melds, Moods, Macs

Three Things I Did At Work 1. Failed To Hydrate Another long day! I’m now running comms for Foundation updates about STFIL🄽, and it’s meant being glued to...

2024-04-10: Sleep, Aided Code, Gay Girl Gone

Three Things I Did 1. Stayed Too Long in the Incident Room Of course, I did not follow my own advice, and did not get enough sleep last night while keeping...

2024-04-09: Learnt Lessons, Open Questions, Hoot!

Three Things I Did 1. Said things about STFIL🄽 I alluded to this a little yesterday, and I can’t allude much more, but this story broke in the Filecoin...

2024-04-08: Main Character Syndrome, Tim O’Reilly, Table Saws

Three Things I Did 1. Filecoin Retro Public Goods Funding Is Go Mostly I just went “lgtm” on this, but look at the lovely website! Meanwhile, just when I was...

2024-04-05: Cow-ork, Open $ource, Military-Industrial Non-Profit Complex

Three Things I Did 1. Co-working with the Funding the Commons Berkeley 2024 crew Always reassuring to see others fitting everything together a complex event,...

2024-04-04: 404 Day, Taxes, RIP Fission

Three Things I Did Today 1. Coffee with Erin Erin O‘Connor🄽 (we have a lot of Irish surnames in our org) manages our devgrants program. I’m going to sneak-...

2024-04-03: Inboxes, Beeper, Slackening

Three Things I Did 1. Scrabbled A day of administrivia: syncing my old wiki with this one, installing Telegram somewhat cagily (guess what compression...

2024-04-02: Beware Gordian Knots, Retro Public Goods, Notion Enhancer

Three Things I Did FIL-RetroPGF-1🄽 submissions sent off. Perusing through the final nom list gave me a few new Filecoin-related works to delve into. We...

2024-03-29: Goodbye Ross, tech independence, backdoors

Three Things I Did Today Mourned Ross Anderson🄽, who passed away this week. He invented the Eternity Service, an ancestor to Filecoin. His influence on the...

2024-03-28: Contracts, Block Parties, Xerox PARC

Three Things I Did Today Lots of talk about the best way to help Filecoin Storage Provider's🄽 work more successfully with our non-profit partners. Right now,...

2024-03-27: Retro Public Goods, Elinor Estrom, Samuel Pepys

Three Things I Did At Work Stef Magdalinski🄽 and I met with some of the FIL-RetroPGF-1🄽 team: Kiran Karra🄽 and Tom Mellan🄽. Retro Public Goods Funding is the...

2024-03-26: Crazy platforms, mission, and little apples

2024-03-26: Crazy platforms, mission, and little apples (Originally posted on the #monologue-danny Slack, which is where folks in the Filecoin Extended...

2024-03-25: Single file archives, fractal perimeters, deadname UUIDs

(Originally posted on the #monologue-danny Slack, which is where folks in the Filecoin Extended Cinematic Universe can jump and ask me questions, set me...