Substrate

• Substrate is a digital garden #are.na#digital garden#metaphor#note-taking workflow#personal knowledge management ideas PINNED

25 August 2026

• Sovereignty is thus a fantasy of jurisdiction #lauren berlant#people#sovereignty notes
• To live up to the standards we set for ourselves, we need to design systems in which self-hosting is structurally possible but not strictly necessary #communication#infrastructure#interoperability#open-standards#self-hosting#xmpp notes
• We are not crushed by the lash; we are fried by the light #burnout#byung-chul han#miski omar#quotation#the guardian notes

24 August 2026

• My zine sold out #art project#postage#productive friction#project#zine reflections
• FIELD STATION as a viable system #action lab#ai#business model#field station#governance#systems thinking#techfreedom#tom watson#vsm ideas
• YOU ARE CONTENT #ambiguity#art#content#creativity#source#vibes ideas

23 August 2026

• Thistle do #android#app#taskmanager#thistle notes

21 August 2026

• Final version of my zine has arrived! #cognitive wallpaper#launch#print#productive friction#zine notes
• Introducing RACK: tell your AI tools how you work #ai#coordination#field station#rack#vsm notes

20 August 2026

• 10 things I've been doing over the summer #activities#career#consulting#projects#summer reflections
• Importance/seriousness #oscar wilde#quotation notes
• Treat your body like a data centre #ai#data centre#humour#meme#metaphor notes

19 August 2026

• We are all of us kings now surrounded by devices whose only purpose is to prevent us from thinking about ourselves #cultural aspiration#dopamine culture#elites#high culture#mass culture#social media#ted gioia reflections

18 August 2026

• In English we say "I'm tired" #english#online communities#poetry#substack notes notes

17 August 2026

• Validation, recognition, and credentialing #credentialing#open badges#open recognition#recognition#self-reflection#validation reflections

16 August 2026

• Design: what it feels like to be living now #aesthetics#content#design#form#michael rock#quotation notes
• To philosophise is to learn how to die #aging#death#life lessons#montaigne#philosophy#reading#stoicism reflections

15 August 2026

• Defining anarchism #anarchism#dave graeber#definition#philosophy#political theory notes
• Seth Godin on 'emotional hygiene' #emotional hygiene#life advice#mental health#self-care#seth godin notes

13 August 2026

• There's nothin' mid about middle age #aging#middle age#midlife#mikey burton#quote notes
• TechFreedom Digest #5 #digest#newsletter#techfreedom notes

11 August 2026

• Flimsy value systems and loser incentive systems #campbell's law#folk morality#goodhart's law#human development#incentives#moral convictions#predictive processing theory#value systems notes

10 August 2026

• Last edits to zine before printing! #editing#field notes on productive friction#printing#zine notes
• Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please #donald sassoon#history#karl marx#quotation#revolution notes