"Routinizing human behavior into a protocol can be characterized as a form of forgetting in the same way political engagement can feel exhaustingly endless." – Business Class Wine
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Introducing the Bridge Atlas podcast – a limited series of interdisciplinary conversations to level up how you think about protocols. It’s time for bridge-building at an unprecedented scale. youtu.be/6KpWypVFL2o?...
Bridge Atlas - Episode 1: Intro | Tim Beiko & Timber Stinson-Schroff
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"Unlike stacks and platforms, protocols tend to define and regulate flows of codified behaviors rather than stocks of technological artifacts." – The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols
“There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.” – Alan J. Perlis
“Debugging is like being a detective in a crime movie where you’re also the murderer.” – Filipe Fortes
“It is no longer sufficient, if it ever was, for diplomacy to address advances in science and technology as they become manifest: it must begin to consider and address their consequences before these become foreseeable.” – Marga Gual Soler
“Argue as if you are right and listen as if you are wrong.” – Karl E. Weick
“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.” – Aldous Huxley, Island
“Good fences make good neighbors.” – Robert Frost, Mending Wall
“As infrastructure, a platform’s regularity is often guaranteed less by laws than by technical protocols, and this is one of several ways that the sovereign decision is built into the platform’s interfacial partitions and surfaces.” – Benjamin Bratton, The Stack
“Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.” – Igor Stravinsky
“We’re not very good at paying attention to invisible or gradual outputs. The trick is simple: If it’s important, make it visible. If it happens over time, create a signal that brings the future into the present.” – Seth Godin, The Pinocchio Protocol
“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
“I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: ‘Always compromise, but compromise upwards.’” – Esther Peterson
“The impetus of existing plans is always stronger than the impulse to change.” – Barbara Tuchman
“Standards are not established by your proclamations; they are established by your routines.” – T. Jay Taylor
"Good, fast, cheap: pick two.” – RFC 1925, The Twelve Networking Truths
"Protocol is a language that regulates flow, directs netspace, codes relationships, and connects life-forms." – Alexander Galloway
“Standards are power in slow motion.” – Susan Leigh Star
“Though we leave behind innumerable traces, it has become commonplace to forget the source, origins, or authenticity of the information we carry.” - Kei Kreutler
“The hero of a protocolized world has mastered a general set of technological patterns that undergird not just the internal realities of organizations across the entire planet but even the interstitial spaces between them.” - Venkatesh Rao
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Alignment Protocols
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“The average person’s awareness of protocols, in the built environment and elsewhere, likely suffers from adverse selection: the most visible protocols are the most dysfunctional ones.” - Drew Austin, Protocols Don’t Build Pyramids
“...if we do not start with a strong conception of what we and the world ought to be, we risk succumbing to designs that reward short-term payoffs or are dictated by those who stand to profit from our attention.” - Janna Tay
"Most life capable of meaningful interstellar travel is indistinguishable from technology." - Kevin Kelly, 12 Assumptions for Extraterrestrial Life
In a world that increasingly comprises protocols, power follows knowledge, not ascriptive authority.