Collecting our thoughts
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.
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.
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.
Subjectivity that's yours
A subject mindset has replaced the citizen mindset of the early internet. Duty will not fix this. Desire will.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Subjectivity that's yours
A subject mindset has replaced the citizen mindset of the early internet. Duty will not fix this. Desire will.
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.
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.
Pretty Solid
Simplicity-maxing Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid Project with opinionated design and AI.
Call my agent
Before AI agents, there were user agents. To get personalized services, have their agent call your agent.
YMMVC
Extending the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern with AI-Bindings to make generative UI react to You.
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.
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.
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.
New economics of personalization
AI makes personalization more valuable while delivering fixed- and variable-cost savings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hot stuff
Personalization cold-starts and learning curves are over. Live cross-app context is now on tap.
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