Topic

Open Infrastructure

A collection of 9 issues

Building Open Recommendations

A full breakdown of how I built Open Recommendations, the inner workings, the choices I made, including provider agnostic AI, strict data structures, deciding whats a recommendation and whats just an observation, RAG, and weighting community feedback.

My Memory - A startup idea for 2026

One of a number of ideas I'm thinking about ahead of 2026. The personal context passport lets people carry a portable, user-owned profile they can share on their terms - from low-stakes convenience (travel, fitness) and evolving into granular, time-limited permissions for high-stakes public services

Predictions for 2026 (or: What I'm Actually Thinking About)

The Predictions for 2026 that no-one asked for. Some of them are real, some are more just hope, most of them are firmly tongue in cheek. Also I set out 8 ideas I'm thinking about when it comes to tech and AI infrastructure.

People as Code 2 - Collapse, rewild, regenerate.

People as Code reflects on how generative AI, built from human data, now mirrors and shapes us. As AI flattens difference and optimises for plausibility over truth, culture risks collapse.

Open Ideas — the difficult second album

About 18 months ago (how!?) i ran an experiment when I asked people to post their ideas openly and then I gave one of them £500 to do so. I now put together a way of continuing the idea of openly sharing ideas.

Open Ideas — what next

Open Ideas 2.0 I think Open Ideas has value. So I’m planning an Open Ideas 2.0. This will focus on connecting people around ideas, opening up potential for action. I think the anonymity of Open Ideas is important and something I want to expand into version 2.0.

Open Ideas?

Want to spend a day exploring an idea? Share it, and maybe you can have £500

Launching the Open Maker Community

Open Makers Community: Collectively exploring no-code tools to build and openly share things for social purpose Starting in January, we are going to be hosting some events which we hope are being created in response to what people told us they wanted.

Free CRM available to good home! And why we wanted to do it…

If are thinking about easy ways to gather and store data and want a free CRM to experiment with read on