A Week of Being Kin Lane - June 2nd, 2025
The weather in NYC has been just lovely. It is everything you hear about when people talk fondly of spring in New York. Even with a few rainy days Poppy and I have been having an amazing time riding around Central Park and the wider city. We put a new wheel on the sidecar so rides have been very smooth, with an average of 3 trips around Central Park each day, and one day where we managed 4 trips.
When it comes to the world beyond our daily magical rides in Central Park, as I learn about ICE tapping into nationwide AI-enabled camera networks, I ask people around me about when it will be a good time to shame them for using AI? I’ve heard a lot of people saying we shouldn’t be shaming people about their usage of artificial intelligence, so I am curious when the right time to shame will arrive as part of our “healthy” social discourse.
It has become obvious that artificial intelligence is just crypto, but instead of relying on a mathematical core, you can wrap anything with artificial intelligence and begin financializing it. Something which reveals for me that AI isn’t going anywhere—it will just perpetually rise, fall, and crash like crypto, with there always being a willing supply suckers to invest their money.
I am a big believer in the decompute, descale, and as Daniel Stenberg over at curl wrote about, the decomplexification of our technology. This is something that I think will be critical for business of all shapes and sizes to think about as we emerge from this bubble, but it will also be something we need to think about at a personal level as we work to simply live our lives.
As a recovering drug user and technologist I see circuits and systems all around us in the physical world, something I try to reflect in my Algorotoscope work, which explains why I was captivated this week by a Diné weaver named Marilou Schultz who turns microchips into art. I feel she is helping to adequately visually document this cybernetic reality we find ourselves living within this century.
Minutes after reading a story about how this map of Los Angeles has no freeways, Audrey messaged me with an announcement for a critical mass bike ride from Union Square to City Hall in NYC protesting the latest laws targeting immigrant bicycle delivery riders in NYC. Poppy and I had a blast participating, and it felt good to connect with the community and push back on policing targeting primarily black and brown people who are working to keep things moving in the city.
On the work front, I will write about it more on the blog this week, but as of Monday I am joining forces with my old friend Jerome Louvel as a co-founder of a company called Naftiko, coming on as the Chief Community Officer. I will be contributing the open-source core of the Naftiko vision to modernize API consumption for cloud-native developers, enabling seamless and innovative API integrations that drive efficiency, enable versatile use cases, while elevating developer experiences.
“When we think of coconuts or pigs, there are no coconuts or pigs in the brain.” ― Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity