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A gathering of thoughts on building an internet more you. At Crosshatch, we're exploring the meaning of a more personalized internet and imagining what's possible when we  truly bring our full context and identity online.

Pretty Solid

Simplicity-maxing Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid Project with opinionated design and AI.

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Call my agent

Before AI agents, there were user agents. To get personalized services, have their agent call your agent.

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YMMVC

Extending the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern with AI-Bindings to make generative UI react to You.

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Bill Gurley and the Sirens of Nirvana

20 years ago Bill Gurley found the keys to capitalism: the Context Moat. For the age of AI, it's a local maximum.

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New economics of personalization

AI makes personalization more valuable while delivering fixed- and variable-cost savings.

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Hot stuff

Personalization cold-starts and learning curves are over. Live cross-app context is now on tap.

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He-said she-said

For memory for AI, we don't just want her side of the story or his. Whatever you want to share, we want the whole story, unfiltered.

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Private dancers

Privacy has been a tool of marginalization. It commodifies and constricts identity. Technologies of the self – rituals of self-actualization and truth – are the cure.

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Personalizationomenon

Personalization today is expensive and bad. It's not a skill issue: no one has the context. To get personalization from the movies, we need a radical shift.

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Private dancers

Privacy has been a tool of marginalization. It commodifies and constricts identity. Technologies of the self – rituals of self-actualization and truth – are the cure.

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Oneself as another

Identity and the Other are mutually constructed. They pass into one another. How privacy absolutism could rob us of a rich identity.

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Unverifiable

Personal AI is an identity. Digital identity is Personal AI.

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Subjectivity that's yours

A subject mindset has replaced the citizen mindset of the early internet. Duty will not fix this. Desire will.

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Progressive self sovereignty

Even in 2003, it felt like walls were going up on the internet. How a progressive self-sovereignty can make internet experiences richer at a reduced cost.

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Privacy and collaboration

Open collaboration is one of America's greatest strengths. But its realization on the internet has felt constraining and icky. The pathway of AI to a more open and collaborative internet.

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Manifesto: Your own kind of music

See the internet through you-colored glasses.

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Pretty Solid

Simplicity-maxing Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid Project with opinionated design and AI.

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Call my agent

Before AI agents, there were user agents. To get personalized services, have their agent call your agent.

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YMMVC

Extending the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern with AI-Bindings to make generative UI react to You.

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Shape of you

What could be an interoperable context layer for hyper-personalized AI? Any AI over a unified events representation of all interactions you've had with the world.

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The Rise of Headless Personalization

Hyper-personalization is the internet's version of rolling out the red carpet. Introducing a new personalization architecture that makes it possible.

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Bill Gurley and the Sirens of Nirvana

20 years ago Bill Gurley found the keys to capitalism: the Context Moat. For the age of AI, it's a local maximum.

Read more

New economics of personalization

AI makes personalization more valuable while delivering fixed- and variable-cost savings.

Read more

He-said she-said

For memory for AI, we don't just want her side of the story or his. Whatever you want to share, we want the whole story, unfiltered.

Read more

Personalizationomenon

Personalization today is expensive and bad. It's not a skill issue: no one has the context. To get personalization from the movies, we need a radical shift.

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Thick and thin

AI unlocks malleable UI. It can be executed by the OS, browser or application-layers. Why "thick" applications resist OS or browser-led malleability and personalized AI will ship at the application layer.

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Personal AI is an identity

Browsers and OS use identity to make data available across devices. The case for identity to make personal AI available across applications.

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Hypermedia and Identity's Third Law

Everyone has tried to build a personal data wallet. Most failed. Why's this time different? Data portability and AI.

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Logged-in Web

Open networks need superior economics to rise. Today private networks control consumer identity and data to massive enterprise. The cookies are stale. It's time for the Logged-In Web.

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Go direct

First party data is mostly "meh" and third party data is deteriorating. The future of personalization? Let customers introduce themselves in a tap.

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Hot stuff

Personalization cold-starts and learning curves are over. Live cross-app context is now on tap.

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