If you can only understand value when it's quantified, then you do not understand value

tribes → institutions → markets 🔜 networks

generalists are to specialists what fungi are to plants

90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.

we don’t need more content. we need better reframes. common ground is a weekly sketch-dialogue about digital culture, AI, and design each episode starts with 4 overlooked objects -- and ends in a new way of seeing collaborating with the fav Alex Komoroske + common tools link below

each week: one call → one conversation → one reframing paper together, they form a sketchbook for thinking about what tech is actually doing to us -- and what it could do instead read&watch + sign up to be notified when we post~ thinkinginpublic.net

N02 is live ~~~ link below

thinkinginpublic.net/n02 theres also a conversation to complement the reframed artifacts <3 theres a subscribe thingy in the footer~

Announcing the Bio x AI Hackathon Winners 🥁 ​Over 60 teams built scientific agents in Bio's 2-month virtual hackathon. We're thrilled to unveil the winners of $125K in prizes - projects pushing the frontier of Decentralized Agentic Science! Meet the winning projects👇🧵

part of my job is talking to individuals way smarter than me in ways I didn’t even know existed. sometimes I feel like an anthropologist studying new species. a humbling experience of course, but also: what a time to be alive

what if the future of funding scientific discovery involves emergent, mission-driven, incentive-compatible teams

In February 2025, a group of eight beavers built a dam exactly in the place where the Czech government planned to build its own. The government project had been in the planning phase since 2018 and was supposed to cost over 1.2 million dollars en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-en…

emergence is what we call network effects we don't understand yet

This Nature article shows that most Nobel Prize winners are part of one big, incestuous academic network. Out of 736 Nobel Prize winners in science and economics, 702 are "part of the same academic family." Only 32 researchers out of this network have won the Nobel Prize.

what if failure had no signal, resilience wasn’t always virtue, language wasn’t thought, and software wanted to move like blood? N03 is about misread systems and what it might take to see them clearly: thinkinginpublic.net/n03 Alex Komoroske

Today we are announcing The Consciousness Foundation (CoFo.org), a public charity whose purpose is to advance the scientific understanding of consciousness and foster consciousness development, ie things like awakening, healing, and inner development. Why?

“I remember taking my final exam, getting stuck on an answer, and thinking: ‘Who cares, I’m about to die.’ I knew something was very wrong. Medical school is always tiring, but this was a different kind of tired. I was getting by on multiple cups of coffee, multiple energy