** Wed Jul 26 09:49 EDT; goldblum
I'm here. A bit lost in the mists of time at this very moment, but
generally, here.

I need to start writing down stuff again. It always rots and feels
awkward and embarrassing later when I come across it and read it
again, much like old code. I hate it in the way I hate other
people's work, only more because I can't escape the implication.

Lots of folks out there trying to escape the implication.

But writing stuff down makes me less likely to try to hang onto
ideas long past the time they've become stubs with any content lost
to the wind. Writing makes thoughts immediately forgettable, with
happy impunity.

I've been working for the last few months, but it is doing to me
what it did before, if a little slower. I can't see the horizon any
more. More generally, after some note taking finally (see?) I have
concluded that I'm working on the wrong problems.

I don't want to make it easier to implement remote "trust", I want
to make it harder. "Trust" is NOT transitive, never was. Trust is a
human concept, and one which is established through relationships.
Using math as a proxy for that makes no sense at all.

Remote attestables, fair exchange protocols - these things do not
solve the problem they proport to solve.

So now I'm starting to feel excitable again, as the end of my
contract approaches. I'm pretty checked out already. I think me and
Dann, my friend who is one of the founders I'm working for right
now, are in good shape to stay roughly the same amount of friends.
I might even be able to continue working with him in some limited
way, but not for the company per se.

So August, bring it. Gonna talk to Henry (gammaspace) about some of
the co-op stuff he's working on, and the Weird Ghost org he's
working with. I want to do games, but my route to that might be
through supporting indie game co-op studios with tooling.

So here I am. Been on the slide for a while, and its time to focus
back on the smolnet. I might write a bit about what I had hoped to
realize thru this current work, even if it might seem silly given
the obviously financial market it's aimed at. Nuff said, more
later, when I've figured out what is NDA and what is not.