







Talking in terms of horizontal or vertical interoperability is too constrictive a mental model to understand what interoperability does. Doing better matters, and it's right within reach.
Radical Interoperability is a Political Agenda
Model the world you want to live in.

Web Components Interoperability | Unpacked
Web Components Interoperability — explained clearly with diagrams.
I don't know if I like working at higher levels of abstraction
AI tools push us to higher abstraction. I'm not sure I like what that costs us.
AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what's happening now.

Roomy joins Modal incubator - Roomy
Rigorous institutional structures make for credible purpose-orientation.
An Alignment Journal: Features and policies — LessWrong
We previously announced a forthcoming research journal for AI alignment. This cross-post from our blog describes our tentative plans for the features…
Identity Systems Don’t Make Decisions - Spherical Cow Consulting
Identity systems don’t make decisions,your architecture does. Why distributed decision-making creates inconsistency and risk in modern IAM.


Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code


Ikea tried to build a smart home for everyone — here’s why it’s not working yet
The dream of interoperability is still just that.

The Myth of Non-Stop High-Speed Rail
High speed doesn’t have to mean non-stop.

How Brazil's AI Governance Vision Got Sidelined at the India Summit
Brazil's multilateralism agenda was forsaken where it mattered most at India's AI summit, Tech Policy Press fellow Tatiana Dias writes.

The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of large language models
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Conway's Law | Laws of Software Engineering
Organizations design systems that mirror their own communication structure.

Education's Broken. Schools Out. | Systematic-X × Shared Mind
A unified movement for systemic change — integrating diplomatic architecture, open frameworks, and sovereign data models. Systematic-X × Shared Mind.