2025-06-27: Budgets, Chasms, Young Mr. Brightside
Working on: Budgets, OKRs, Flows 😩 Gripped with terror at having to contribute to such Order Muppet (of Unified Muppet Theory 🄽) core competencies, but...
2025-06-26: Guts, Teams, and Dumb Questions
Working on: My Stomach “I suffered for my art; now it’s your turn” — Neil Innes. Due to the Gen X And Younger Youth Elixir, I am mostly healthy, except for...
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
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
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 —...