This year I'm going to try to do some ridiculously ambitious things. I'm not ready to sit down and shutup. It's going to cause trouble, and I reckon it's about time.
What I'm going to do is start talking about what I want to happen with the expectation that talking enough about it will gather people towards whatever center of gravity I can generate. In the plan I thought I perfected in my mind about 8 years ago, I figured I would be wealthy enough by now. But I've been riding somebody else's camel and it's time for me to start getting my own feet used to the burning sands. So let me put it out there.
Firstly, some hotshot at Google found my profile and we talked. We didn't talk long enough for me to impress him the way he wanted to be impressed, but with all of the crap going on in my life dealing X, Y and Z, I found this a reminder of what I could be doing. Specifically, what I'm not doing, which is getting paid to think and getting paid to lead. I'm getting paid to work, which is a great privilege at any time in history. I'm getting generously paid for honest work for which I am grateful. But to the extent that I can be ungrateful for all I have, it does mean that I think I could be doing better at something else. It's up to me to prove it. So I'll take the risk. It's a kind of sorry charade, according to Epictetus, to feel liberated by exchanging one master for another. On the one hand you can say - Hey I'm doing X for Google, how cool is that? On the other hand, it's still Google's vision, not mine. At least considering that I was not hired for presenting my vision of Google, that's the case.
So what is it that I want to do? I want to revolutionize social media. In fact, I actually want to create something that I would call academic media, or scientific media, or probably best yet, philosophical media. I want all of the stuff that I write and that people write online to be subject to a different set of criteria than popularity. I want people who prefer to not express themselves in emoticons to know that what they write and say and portray online is absorbed in its long form with all of its implications. I want something that immediately connotes that 140 characters was never going to be enough. Maybe I can call it Heavy Media. Something that makes us want to append artifacts to statements like a giant Katamari Damacy of truth.
Everything I've done in my entire life can be considered in this unity going forward. I'm ready to leap. I'm ready to leave everything else behind. So I'm talking myself into it. Maybe I'll have a collaborator. Maybe I'm just a crazy wallfacer.
So I have decided that I'll start here. Cobb gets more traffic than Cubegeek and it doesn't make sense to start a new domain from scratch until that's paid for by collaborators. People who bother to read me here will be who they are, and speak up if they must.
The first thing I need to talk about is Privacy Perfection or Security Perfection through Identity Brokerage. I'm following some of the ideas of Vinay Gupta. I had a bit of this conversation the other day and I'm convinced that we have enough to be dangerous and that we will be perfecting it for the rest of time. So there's no point in waiting, and after all people will waste money on the imperfection everywhere until there is actual perfection somewhere. Somehow I'll figure out how to make a working document work - that will probably be at Github. Hmm. Sounds like a plan.
The next thing I'll want to talk about is the Circle Protocol. We'll give it a fancy name later. I've already started to describe it here. Time to make it work.
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