Topic
decentralization
- Freedom To Exit
Gordon Brander on credible exit.
- Against Centralized Power
From Tom Sowell's masterpiece, A Conflict of Visions: While Hayek regarded some advocates of social justice as cynically aware that they were really engaged in a concentration of power, the greater danger he saw in th…
- Centralization is Inevitable
The tension between centralized and decentralized network design is a common theme in network science. Even a "decentralized" system is actually a continuum, not a fixed state. A system moves along an axis degree of d…
- Taking Back Our User Accounts
Identity management on the internet has been broken for years. We all have 800 distinct logins to different services, registered to different emails with different passwords. Plus your personal data exists in a morass…
- Annotating the Web with Memex
I linked a few weeks ago to a new tool called Memex, a browser extension that touts itself as bookmarking for "power users of the web." Its primary unique differentiator is how they approach the privacy angle. I'm a c…