Venkatesh RaoWriter and independent consultant Currently: venkateshrao.comI’ve been a writer and independent consultant since 2011.BlogNewsletterBio@vgr.bsky.social on Bluesky@vgr on FarcasterProject Lead OnWhitepaperThe Yak Online Governance PrimerLead editors: Sachin Benny & Venkatesh RaoPublished: February 2nd, 2022 UTC / Day 688 Pandemic Mean TimeReportFuture FrontiersAn era of democratized access to frontiers?Lead editors: Venkatesh RaoPublished: December 1st, 2020 UTC / Day 260 Pandemic Mean TimeReportDon’t Waste the RebootMaking the next normal better than the last oneLead editors: Paul Millerd & Venkatesh RaoPublished: April 30th, 2020 UTC / Day 45 Pandemic Mean TimeCollaborated OnProgramYak Robotics GarageRobotics tinkering for everyonePublished: March 28th, 2021 UTC / Day 377 Pandemic Mean TimeReportThe New Old HomeRediscovering the home as a production frontierLead editors: Pamela Hobart & Drew SchornoPublished: June 10th, 2020 UTC / Day 86 Pandemic Mean TimeWritings202431 Mar: CFA: Summer of Protocols 202424 Feb: Spring Break16 Feb: Does Reality Have a Surprising _Lack_ of Detail?11 Feb: Massed Muddler Intelligence03 Feb: Brains, Chains, and Vibemobiles27 Jan: Towards a Metaphysics of Worlds20 Jan: Glued Time, Forked Time14 Jan: A Map for AI Town Planners, 2024-2906 Jan: The Importance of Not Being Earnest202329 Dec: State of the Studio 202322 Dec: We Just Have to Set Up the Planetary Dev Environment16 Dec: In Search of Hardness09 Dec: A Camera, Not an Engine02 Dec: Boundary Intelligence25 Nov: The War of Incredulous Stares18 Nov: Istanbul Diary11 Nov: A Tale of Two Cycle Memes04 Nov: Oozy Intelligence in Slow Time27 Oct: You've Been Matrix-Multiplied21 Oct: A Whole New Cope14 Oct: A History of Narrative Environments07 Oct: Blithe Spirits and Heavy Souls30 Sep: Fear of Oozification23 Sep: Fluid Fogs and Fixed Flows17 Sep: This is the New Real World09 Sep: What we seek to save when we seek to save the world03 Sep: Sweating Solarpunk26 Aug: My Climate Posture19 Aug: Adventures in Narrative Time12 Aug: Never-Ending Stories11 Aug: Protocol Narratives05 Aug: Rediscovering Narratability29 Jul: Thick Time22 Jul: Unnarratability15 Jul: Grimdark-Hopepunk With a Chance of Icecream07 Jul: Cafes and Grand Narratives01 Jul: Magic, Mundanity and Deep Protocolization24 Jun: The Titan Affair17 Jun: Book Review: Slouching Towards Utopia06 May: Summer Break28 Apr: The Puzzle of the Permaweird22 Apr: History After History202224 Dec: State of the Studio 202217 Dec: Computing as an Infinite Game16 Dec: Mediocre Computing11 Dec: Two Black Holes03 Dec: The Dawn of Mediocre Computing26 Nov: The Muskening, Part II19 Nov: The Art of Gig is Out!12 Nov: The Muskening04 Nov: Silicon Valley Vibe Shift29 Oct: A Territory and a Map22 Oct: Vivid Abstractions14 Oct: Scintillation Points07 Oct: Hello Again, World01 Oct: The Anthropic Cheat Code24 Sep: The One Trading System17 Sep: Mutualism10 Sep: Globalism 2.0 Service Pack 302 Sep: The Long 202227 Aug: The End of Alpha21 Aug: Beyond Hyperanthropomorphism12 Aug: Eventfulness06 Aug: August 2022 Core Dump29 Jul: Memiads22 Jul: Future Tables15 Jul: Inner Graph Monologues09 Jul: The Depth of Time01 Jul: What Graphs Want24 Jun: Year One Review18 Jun: Getting to Gnome Mode10 Jun: Graph Vitalism03 Jun: Anatomy of a Graph Mind27 May: Surrender and Assimilation20 May: Big Graph of Mud20 May: Graph Minds Notebook14 May: Graph Minds07 May: Ozymandias Problems30 Apr: Can Robots Yearn For Phantom Limbs?24 Apr: Towards Management Metamodernism15 Apr: Mopium, Copium, Hopium09 Apr: Dark, Gray, and Light Lore01 Apr: Epics vs. Lore01 Apr: On Lore26 Mar: Raw Lore18 Mar: Lore as Imaginative Irony12 Mar: Lands of Lorecraft04 Mar: Transaction-Cost Utopias Reconsidered25 Feb: Teeth and Identity18 Feb: Theory-Shaped Debris09 Feb: Derangements202116 Dec: Winter Break10 Dec: The Backstopper Economy02 Dec: Magic Beans19 Nov: Through a Scanner, Darkly11 Nov: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times...Again04 Nov: Here We Go Again29 Oct: Coordination Headwinds22 Oct: Baby Eons14 Oct: The First Terraforming06 Oct: Remystifying Supply Chains30 Sep: On Robots23 Sep: Goalposts-Complete Problems17 Sep: Pitchdark Futures09 Sep: Low-Level Vitalist Memeing29 Jul: Summer Break21 Jul: One Tenth of a Second15 Jul: Superhistory Redux08 Jul: Accidental Designs -- 201 Jul: The REALIST Stack24 Jun: Accidental Designs -- 116 Jun: Perpetuated Beta16 Jun: Welcome to Ribbonfarm Studio16 Jun: After Westphalia16 Jun: The Great Weirding16 Jun: The Clockless Clock09 Jun: Upcoming Changes02 Jun: Maker Studio, Manager Studio28 May: Living With Problems19 May: Good People and Wicked Problems11 May: Superhistory, Not Superintelligence05 May: Illusions and Collisions - 327 Apr: The Meaning Crisis Conspiracy20 Apr: Late-Style Thinking13 Apr: Illusions and Collisions - 206 Apr: Welcome to the World of Tomorrow30 Mar: Digital Homelessness24 Mar: Illusions and Collisions -- 119 Mar: Moving to Tuesdays...12 Mar: Demiurgical Businesses05 Mar: Late Sceneification26 Feb: Shadowland -219 Feb: Mars and the Meaning of Money12 Feb: Shadowland - 105 Feb: Tick-Tock Talk -- 2:29 Jan: Weird Moneys22 Jan: Anti-Network Effects15 Jan: Involvement Music08 Jan: Selfies in Vaporworlds07 Jan: Alert: Breaking Smart Billing Problem01 Jan: Tick-Tock Talk - 1202025 Dec: Complete 2020 Roundup18 Dec: Darker Things11 Dec: In the Wake of the Eighties04 Dec: Involvement Capitalism16 Oct: Hitting Pause09 Oct: Notes on Textual Capital02 Oct: Tunnelhead25 Sep: Fifth-Generation Management19 Sep: Control Failure -- 211 Sep: A Bad Prequel04 Sep: Post-Covid Circularity28 Aug: No newsletter this week21 Aug: The State of (Business) Play14 Aug: Control Failure -- 107 Aug: The Descent of the Public31 Jul: Operating in Time - 224 Jul: Thinking Out Loud: Year One17 Jul: Operating in Time10 Jul: The Next Experiments in Elitism03 Jul: After Westphalia: Introduction26 Jun: Indoors in Time19 Jun: Big Moods, Little Moods12 Jun: Farcaster Mansions05 Jun: Into the Weirding -- Part 229 May: From Story to Setting22 May: Into the Weirding -- Part 116 May: A little gift
