Finding friction
In a world of easy answers what we really need is space and time to work reflect, adapt evolve. Maybe we need friction.
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Weeknote 60
Back from a break, back to school, backing off from things, paying attention.
Boring is beautiful?
Sharing the tiny boring and privacy focused tools I use for myself in a Set.
A TechFreedom startup stack?
What would a TechFreedom tech stack look like if you were starting from scratch? A question I was asked, and one which actually tested my thinking around what is the best approach here. Fundamentally it comes down to how much of a pain in the arse are you willing to put up with!
Recap May - July
My somewhat regular round up of all the posts and weeknotes and things I’ve been up to, for those of you who said you might like such a thing. the first TechFreedom cohort finished, The Slow Post happened, the Organisational Resilience programme came to an end, FIELD STATION emerged
Building Soundings: a question-shaped layer over UK open data
Another blog on the ins and outs of something I've built, what it's all about, and why it might be a useful tool and/or concept. This time: Soundings an MCP server that wraps UK open data behind question-shaped tools.
Put down the firehose
An exploration of building with local small models and why we probably don't need the firehose approach of frontier models for most things. Frugal AI can be done, if we choose to, and it doesn't need to cost us the quality.
Weeknote 56
Some building using local first approaches (including AI) the constraint slows things down, but I think in the long run makes for a better product? Testing more open source models, updating Bearing, working on openorg, soundings,
Honestly though this week was mainly just lots of running
If everything is a neighbourhood, is anything a neighbourhood?
If everything is described as a neighbourhood, is anything actually a neighbourhood?
Explore the word and the data and why it's so confusing
Responsible AI?
A write up from a talk I gave on Responsible AI with links to resources.
I started not with AI, but with Food Citizenship.