Notes from the desk — on sovereignty, code, the Orthodox mind, and the small craft of making things that last.
The fastest builders I know have all stopped moving fast. Not slower — just more honest about what each day is for.
There is a word, kairos, that the Greeks set against chronos. Chronos is what the clock counts; kairos is what the moment asks. Most of startup culture mistakes the first for the second. We measure velocity, set quarters, stand up daily — all chronos, all counting. But the things worth making ask something else of us: they ask for the right moment, not more of them. I have not shipped anything in three weeks. I have never been more productive.
Read the full entry → 7 minThreshold signatures, canisters, and what it actually means for a piece of software to belong to you.
A note from the chapel at Einsiedeln, and what Maximus had to say about attention.
The design brief for an app that holds a letter until the network decides it is time.
A canton of 160,000 runs itself on referenda and mountain paths. A lesson for software.
Why proof-of-funds is broken, and what a properly signed balance could look like.
Every project has a day when starting over feels like progress. It almost never is.
Pascha moves. The feasts refuse to sync. There is a design principle in there somewhere.
On what Harrison Data became, and what it taught about the slow arithmetic of trust.
A mental model for building on ICP: stop thinking of it as hosting; think of it as a place.
What happens to a community when you can count it. What breaks when you cannot.
Why I started writing these at all. It was meant to be for one reader.
From London to a canton of mountains. Notes on what changed, and what didn't.