This proposal is an argument for the self-determination of code and for participation in its construction. By interpreting subjects as processes we further the closures between reading and writing, working and pointing, art and life.
My work on the Valuation Research Articles comprised what would be equivalent to a term paper in the graduate economy, and a critical portion of the fiscal year in crypto. I began using Federated Wiki as a structural assistant towards the creation of an in-depth valuation model of Urbit address space in early August, 2022, with the hopes of arriving at a thesis by Assembly 2022.
Now the year comes to a close. While no deadline was discussed during my talks with the Urbit Foundation, it is with Extreme Humility that I account for
...the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent
The art of computer programming isn't hard to master. It is only hard to perfect. This is about what happens when something doesn't go the way it was intended to go. And it is with [[Ten Word Line
...practice losing farther, losing fasterlikely around in my pursuit of the conditions under which I'm able to effectively contribute to the best software stack in the world, I seem to have arrived at selectively leaking portions of this analysis into the Urbit Groups I like the most, on the last two days of the year, as my experiences at Assembly produced so much awareness as to the state of the network and where things were heading, and because the integrity of the datasets
If dispatch is a kind of condition that forks off to competing futures shaped by values other than ours, any substantially evolved valuation model of urbit will approach "scale" as a pattern language of programmable directives, not a growth milestone.
Milestone: a sufficiently usable read/write platform for narrow use by an immediate community, capable of supporting the work of art in a stored condition and also the dream of it in collaboration.
Web 3 is an abstraction, but that doesn't mean it isn't real. We will use Federated Wiki as a method of interpretation to arrive at a substantially evolved valuation model held together by consistent use of structured names. We will separate user-story from commercial use case by reflecting on personal computing as that which needn't be professional, but is political in the last instance.
This is a functional prototype, not a value proposal. It is presented as the result of 6 months participant-observation on Urbit and with the Urbit community directly, and Web 3 in general, on top of hangouts with the Seran Outpost. It is a graceful extension of the distributed development proposal written on spec for the UAR, with a down to the wire lead time as a measure of persistence.
Finally, we will make good on our initial promise to urbit by specifying a sufficiently usable read/write system for narrow use by lifelong pals capable of supporting activists and whores. Or cats and porns. Or Erowid.