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"Routinizing human behavior into a protocol can be characterized as a form of forgetting in the same way political engagement can feel exhaustingly endless."
– Business Class Wine
– Business Class Wine
October 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
"Routinizing human behavior into a protocol can be characterized as a form of forgetting in the same way political engagement can feel exhaustingly endless."
– Business Class Wine
– Business Class Wine
Introducing the Bridge Atlas podcast – a limited series of interdisciplinary conversations to level up how you think about protocols.
It’s time for bridge-building at an unprecedented scale.
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It’s time for bridge-building at an unprecedented scale.
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Bridge Atlas - Episode 1: Intro | Tim Beiko & Timber Stinson-Schroff
YouTube video by Protocol Town Hall
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October 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Introducing the Bridge Atlas podcast – a limited series of interdisciplinary conversations to level up how you think about protocols.
It’s time for bridge-building at an unprecedented scale.
youtu.be/6KpWypVFL2o?...
It’s time for bridge-building at an unprecedented scale.
youtu.be/6KpWypVFL2o?...
"Unlike stacks and platforms, protocols tend to define and regulate flows of codified behaviors rather than stocks of technological artifacts."
– The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols
– The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols
October 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"Unlike stacks and platforms, protocols tend to define and regulate flows of codified behaviors rather than stocks of technological artifacts."
– The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols
– The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols
“There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.”
– Alan J. Perlis
– Alan J. Perlis
October 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
“There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.”
– Alan J. Perlis
– Alan J. Perlis
“Debugging is like being a detective in a crime movie where you’re also the murderer.” – Filipe Fortes
October 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“Debugging is like being a detective in a crime movie where you’re also the murderer.” – Filipe Fortes
“It is no longer sufficient, if it ever was, for diplomacy to address advances in science and technology as they become manifest: it must begin to consider and address their consequences before these become foreseeable.”
– Marga Gual Soler
– Marga Gual Soler
October 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“It is no longer sufficient, if it ever was, for diplomacy to address advances in science and technology as they become manifest: it must begin to consider and address their consequences before these become foreseeable.”
– Marga Gual Soler
– Marga Gual Soler
“Argue as if you are right and listen as if you are wrong.”
– Karl E. Weick
– Karl E. Weick
October 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
“Argue as if you are right and listen as if you are wrong.”
– Karl E. Weick
– Karl E. Weick
“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.”
– Aldous Huxley, Island
– Aldous Huxley, Island
October 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.”
– Aldous Huxley, Island
– Aldous Huxley, Island
“Good fences make good neighbors.”
– Robert Frost, Mending Wall
– Robert Frost, Mending Wall
October 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“Good fences make good neighbors.”
– Robert Frost, Mending Wall
– Robert Frost, Mending Wall
“As infrastructure, a platform’s regularity is often guaranteed less by laws than by technical protocols, and this is one of several ways that the sovereign decision is built into the platform’s interfacial partitions and surfaces.”
– Benjamin Bratton, The Stack
– Benjamin Bratton, The Stack
October 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
“As infrastructure, a platform’s regularity is often guaranteed less by laws than by technical protocols, and this is one of several ways that the sovereign decision is built into the platform’s interfacial partitions and surfaces.”
– Benjamin Bratton, The Stack
– Benjamin Bratton, The Stack
“Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.”
– Igor Stravinsky
– Igor Stravinsky
October 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
“Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.”
– Igor Stravinsky
– Igor Stravinsky
“We’re not very good at paying attention to invisible or gradual outputs.
The trick is simple: If it’s important, make it visible. If it happens over time, create a signal that brings the future into the present.”
– Seth Godin, The Pinocchio Protocol
The trick is simple: If it’s important, make it visible. If it happens over time, create a signal that brings the future into the present.”
– Seth Godin, The Pinocchio Protocol
October 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“We’re not very good at paying attention to invisible or gradual outputs.
The trick is simple: If it’s important, make it visible. If it happens over time, create a signal that brings the future into the present.”
– Seth Godin, The Pinocchio Protocol
The trick is simple: If it’s important, make it visible. If it happens over time, create a signal that brings the future into the present.”
– Seth Godin, The Pinocchio Protocol
“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
– R. Buckminster Fuller
October 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
– R. Buckminster Fuller
“I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: ‘Always compromise, but compromise upwards.’”
– Esther Peterson
– Esther Peterson
October 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
“I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: ‘Always compromise, but compromise upwards.’”
– Esther Peterson
– Esther Peterson
“The impetus of existing plans is always stronger than the impulse to change.”
– Barbara Tuchman
– Barbara Tuchman
October 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“The impetus of existing plans is always stronger than the impulse to change.”
– Barbara Tuchman
– Barbara Tuchman
“Standards are not established by your proclamations; they are established by your routines.”
– T. Jay Taylor
– T. Jay Taylor
October 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“Standards are not established by your proclamations; they are established by your routines.”
– T. Jay Taylor
– T. Jay Taylor
"Good, fast, cheap: pick two.”
– RFC 1925, The Twelve Networking Truths
– RFC 1925, The Twelve Networking Truths
October 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"Good, fast, cheap: pick two.”
– RFC 1925, The Twelve Networking Truths
– RFC 1925, The Twelve Networking Truths
"Protocol is a language that regulates flow, directs netspace, codes relationships, and connects life-forms."
– Alexander Galloway
– Alexander Galloway
September 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"Protocol is a language that regulates flow, directs netspace, codes relationships, and connects life-forms."
– Alexander Galloway
– Alexander Galloway
“Standards are power in slow motion.”
– Susan Leigh Star
– Susan Leigh Star
September 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
“Standards are power in slow motion.”
– Susan Leigh Star
– Susan Leigh Star
"Standards make the world."
- David Lang
- David Lang
May 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"Standards make the world."
- David Lang
- David Lang
“Though we leave behind innumerable traces, it has become commonplace to forget the source, origins, or authenticity of the information we carry.”
- Kei Kreutler
- Kei Kreutler
May 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“Though we leave behind innumerable traces, it has become commonplace to forget the source, origins, or authenticity of the information we carry.”
- Kei Kreutler
- Kei Kreutler
“The hero of a protocolized world has mastered a general set of technological patterns that undergird not just the internal realities of organizations across the entire planet but even the interstitial spaces between them.”
- Venkatesh Rao
- Venkatesh Rao
May 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“The hero of a protocolized world has mastered a general set of technological patterns that undergird not just the internal realities of organizations across the entire planet but even the interstitial spaces between them.”
- Venkatesh Rao
- Venkatesh Rao