Mathew Lowry

• A [[person]].
  • [[twitter]] twitter.com/mathewlowry
  • #go https://myhub.ai/@mathewlowry
  • [[project]] myhub.ai
  • #about https://myhub.ai/@mathewlowry/about/
  • [[garden]] https://myhub.ai/@mathewlowry/?quality=all&timeframe=anytime&types=like&types=do&types=think
  • [[agora]] https://anagora.org/@mathewlowry pull
    • [[p1]]
  • #push [[agora plan]]
    • onboard [[mathew lowry]]
  • [[2022-05-25]]
    • [[boutique]], pros and cons of the term
      • [[the future of search is boutique]] https://future.a16z.com/the-future-of-search-is-boutique/
      • [[high-signal, trustworthy knowledge space]]
      • [[wikilinks everywhere]]
  • [[2022-05-18]]
    • greetings! :)
    • finished work, been reviewing/catching up
    • australian, but in belgium for [[30 years]] (!)
      • got there backpacking
      • [[brussels]] is a bilingual city
    • [[zurich]]
    • [[belgium]] as a compromise between flemish and french culture
      • [[confederation]] might be the next step
    • [[mathew]] been working with european institutions, science writing background
    • been on the internet since 1988 (!)
      • [[usenet]]
      • [[steward brand]] (sp)
      • built the first [[database driven website]] after [[cern]] maybe
      • expert in internet + european context
      • [[public participation]]
      • [[knowledge management]]
      • focused on [[myhub]] as a side project
      • tradeoffs between running a large company and a single person consultancy firm
        • greater freedom in picking projects
    • a [[european commission]]
      • is reviewing [[mastodon]] and [[peertube]]
      • has completely hierarchical governance and decision making
    • [[fediverse]]
      • [[social coop]]
      • [[crossposting]]
      • how to choose an instance?
      • or how to make the decision to run your own?
    • [[myhub]]
      • started in [[tumblr]]
      • it’s a proof of concept
      • what [[mathew]] wants:
        • anybody can set up their own hub, or sign up for someone else’s
        • then they can follow each other, interact with each other
      • launched just as the pandemic was started
    • [[flancian]]
      • the [[agora]] as an [[interlay]]
    • [[science fiction script]]
      • [[lost eden]]
    • back in 1995 [[tim berners lee]] and others thought they were building something like the [[agora]] precisely
      • [[2007]] was when [[mathew]] started thinking things weren’t going well
    • [[mathew]] got into the knowledge management space because of the difficulty of sharing: bookmarks, articles, posts
      • [[myhub]] came from the idea of aggregating all these sources and offering tools for others to do so
      • [[dgo]] [[pocket]] [[ifttt]] [[tumblr]] were the v0
      • the currently [[myhub]] is [[v1]]
      • [[ai engine]] for [[assisted tagging]]
    • [[what is the problem you’re trying to solve?]]
      • in the [[agora]], we’ve asked "what happens if we create an interlay?"
      • re: [[personal knowledge management is bullshit]]
        • agree in that [[long form writing]] (setting a format, a deadline, etc.)
        • [[obsidian]] doesn’t have what someone calls a [[grain]] according to "why it’s hard to get started with obsidian"
        • seems to apply to most tools in this space though
    • [[personal content strategy]]
      • [[digital wellness productivity]]
      • [[inboxes]] -> [[priority sources]] -> [[reading queue]] -> [[curated resources]] -> [[reflect]], [[write]]
    • [[questions]]
      • client side linking/tags as links?
        • yes :)
      • [[hypothesis]]?
    • [[understory]] renamed to [[mysilio]]
      • [[solid]]
        • [[india]] and [[flandes]] is looking into it
        • #push [[commons]]
          • [[data union]]
        • [[myhub]] wants to let people build [[data unions]]