[cdoctorow]

It's not entirely a coincidence that Tim and I sound alike on this subject! We grew up together at the same hippie alternative school in Toronto and then both came under the influence of Larry Lessig in our adult lives.

Tim and I got a chance to catch up at a Brussels antitrust conference last month and it was great to go over all the ways that our backgrounds contributed to our work in adulthood:

https://www.cra-brusselsconference.com/home/Programme

[ilaksh]

Wow hello famous person.

This weekend I got back to doing a little bit of work on my TerseNet concept, inspired by one of your articles "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-n..." and things like the Gemini Protocol with the idea of combating monopolies by making protocols simple enough for the average programmer or small team to implement them.

https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet -- still just some ideas, not an actual prototype.

[cdoctorow]

Exciting!

[no_wizard]

That's amazing, such a small world! I been following Tim Wu since I first heard of him way way back when he was a guest on an early video series produced by The Verge (the video series unfortunately, is now defunct, these were the Josh Topolsky days). No idea you guys were connected in any way.

He's an amazing writer on the subject of information systems and broader society, in my opinion. I was drawn to your work via Factually! of all things.

[cdoctorow]

He really is a terrific writer.

And Adam is tremendous; I just binge-listened to so much of the Factually back-catalog!

[pfraze]

Going to take a moment to mention - though I shared a disagreement elsewhere in the comments, I respect the work you've been doing Cory and I regret not saying so in my comment. I'm glad you're make a case for adversarial interop and I hope people do give it a shot.

[cdoctorow]

Thank you - even I don't always agree with me.