Sage

building durable systems on @urbit @nockchain

[Sage @polrel_witter]

The Millennial mindset's glass ceiling is its exclusive desire to penetrate the globe; completely missing the ocean of opportunity in the local/regional which is starving for technology implemented within its context.

[Nockchain @nockchain]

1/ Most blockchains force a choice between programmability and scalability.

Nockchain supersedes this tradeoff with a novel approach.

With no L2s required for scaling, we call it the world supercomputer.

Here's how it works.👇

[Sage @polrel_witter]

@safetrade Must withdraw to v1 address, or will v0 addresses still work?

[Sage @polrel_witter]

@finpel_dorred Through TM, yes. There used to be others that would enable this, but I don't believe they're maintained anymore sadly.

[Sage @polrel_witter]

Having spent the past few years in Urbit, and more recently encountering the Zorp/Nockchain thesis on financialized networked tribes, I figured it'd be useful to extrapolate what I learned into a standard guide for others interested in navigating and possibly orienting their life around these types of groups.

# Trad forms
A networked tribe is a geographically distributed group of people with tightly aligned interests and values, whose primary connection is bootstrapped and persisted through digital networks.

Given the proliferation of the internet and increasingly data-rich environments made possible by big advances in hardware and software config, it's a relatively new phenomenon. Dreamed up in the cyberpunk era, it's now being lived out largely by people in and adjacent to the cryptosphere.

There's also an argument for their proliferation as a result of a broader cultural and economic environment that no longer favors human-scale bonds. People in these circles tend to see globalism, accelerated technology, and financial tools that don't work for them as an increasingly hostile environment making it near impossible to "go it alone"; foregoing the broader economic and cultural engines that used to support them and their ancestors.

The larger 21st century economic and cultural structures are being forsworn because they're the antithesis of tribal formation and proliferation. A vital human need.

The future looks increasingly bleak from the perspective of these traditional structures so tribal formation sets in as a reaction, necessary for survival. The "network" part just alludes to the 21st-century equivalent which provides novel technological leverage.

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[Sage @polrel_witter]

Certified 100% organic intelligence

[Sage @polrel_witter]

0 -> 1

[Ryan Fleury @rfleury]

It largely is, but that’s not actually the problem. Doing 1000x better doesn’t require “optimization”. It just requires what would’ve been bare minimum understanding 40 years ago. The ability to write the simplest implementations for simple problems from scratch, with regular, native, procedural code, where you understand the entire thing.

Because very few people know how to do even that, and because developers are basically incapable by themselves, they just try to outsource even the most trivial of problems, and build gigantic abstraction layer stacks that they get *somewhat* working (sometimes) through brute force evolutionary pressure. And then they call themselves “software engineers”

[Sage @polrel_witter]

Minimally-viable summer gym: a patch of grass under a tree

[Sage @polrel_witter]

Software has no needs; it only cares for that which is the subject of the software.

- Plato

[Sage @polrel_witter]

Taking some nock notes

[Sage @polrel_witter]

Everything you want but havent yet gotten is on the side of calm.

[Sage @polrel_witter]

Some friends and siblings of mine have long been members of the F45 cult. I attended once and was not a fan. Loud, club music; surrounded by people who feign for exercise. What's great about it is the classes, while run by a coach, are fairly automated; full workout config, screens for position demonstration, timers, etc. Real personal trainer benefits with a cultural vibe.

But even if I could get over the cultural misalignment, I wouldn't be able to justify its high membership fee so instead I've decided build my own workout generator on my phone as an Obsidian plugin.

[Sage @polrel_witter]

Saturday morning smokes.

[Sage @polrel_witter]

Software projects unconcerned with beauty on every level should go where they belong: the trash.

Nock forevur.

[~𝔐𝔦𝔩𝔰𝔢𝔱 @0xsyru]

Today I'm teaching you how to sell 4 billion Urbit IDs to 5 billion Internet users ...
... and 100 billion AI agents.

Where other name services like ENS on Ethereum have 3 trump cards, Urbit ID has 16!💥 and counting.

I'll explain every single one of them in this thread 👇

[Sage @polrel_witter]

Reduce, reduce, reduce

[Sage @polrel_witter]

@GlueWear @_unsealed yeah, run this after shutting down your ship: <pier>/.run chop --loom 32