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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

Weeknote 55

This week was focused on two main things: running a mini TechFreedom session at TechNExt and bringing to a close the 6 month Organisational Resilience programme. Actually reflecting, focusing on conditions, joining a forum, dinosaurs in cathedrals.

Weeknote 54

The Slow Post week. That was the main thing. That should probably be the main thing more. I also wrote a couple of things about Neighbourhoods, Responsible AI, did some building, and some work. But mainly, just go slower.

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.

Weeknote 53

Remembering to stop and protect my boundaries, writing a mishmash of the history of climbing and AI, having some incredible feedback from two programmes, planning The Field Station, TechFreedom stickers

Strap in (and harness up)

Is the harness more important that the model? A ramble through climbing history and the AI present and future. Random alright

Weeknote 52

Silly cartoons, random exlorations of a less open sector via the medium of the physical laws of the universe, a trip to cornwall, work on Bearings, sharing Glade a tool for governance, and a bumper list of interestng things.

Round up - March to May

An occasional round up all the posts and weeknotes and things I've been up to that some of you said you might like! A bumper couple of months - TechFreedom went live, a residential happened, The Pastry Index ™ , several new tools, a viral piece on grantmaking infrastructure and what

There be goblins

In April, OpenAI published a blog post called Where the goblins came from. Starting with GPT-5.1, their models had developed an unprompted habit of mentioning goblins, gremlins, trolls, and ogres in metaphors. Use of "goblin" in ChatGPT went up 175%. The cause: during training of the