1. The MIDS Philosophy of Decentralized Development

MIDS---Merge / Integrate / Dogfood / Ship---forms a lightweight philosophy for decentralized development: a way for many autonomous contributors to create coherent products without heavy process or centralized gatekeeping. Each step defines a distinct layer of
responsibility, with pronouns that map the flow of agency from individual to collective.

The Worm in the Apple of Superintelligence

The myth of superintelligence assumes that if we amplify reason, we capture mind. / That is the apple we are offered: shiny, perfect, Platonic. / But the worm inside — the actual worm — reminds us that intelligence is not reducible to reason. / It is inseparable from life…

ROY: Research Object YAML

ROY is a compressed, human-first representation of RO-Crates in YAML. / It preserves all identifiers needed to reconstruct the original JSON-LD, but it presents them in a way that feels closer to a datasheet or a BibTeX entry.

ADD the Beat: Accountability-Driven Development in an AI World

AI can generate code faster than any human I've met. But it often lacks what we might call EQ for engineering: it doesn't know when to stop, it forgets promises, it drifts from context. That's not malice--it's the nature of the tool. The burden falls back on us to create a structure where AI's speed doesn't outrun our ability to review.

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