Philip Monk

This is not an incidental feature of Urbit, it's the main reason Urbit is open-source and you personally own your identity. Companies are mortal, and the lifespan of a product is measured in dog years.https://twitter.com/devonzuegel/status/1221804267083718656 …

Most misunderstanding of Clay is because we call it a filesystem, Gall because we call them apps, and Arvo because we call it an OS. None of these are wrong, but it's really hard to design them right with names so full of irrelevant connotations.

Those new to Urbit constantly stumble over the Martian terms we've used to replace Earth terms. Those who know Urbit well constantly stumble over the Earth terms we haven't replaced.

"Those who cannot read and write code must spend all of their time convincing other people of their ideas, and are usually sufficiently disconnected from reality (i.e., the code) that their ideas do not work in practice." http://joeduffyblog.com/2013/02/17/software-leadership-1-code-speaks-love-the-code/ …

yes yes yeshttps://twitter.com/matildepark_/status/1213679654252490755 …

If you're working on A, and A depends on B depends on ... depends on Z, you can probably write A and Z. The one you're least likely to be able to write is B.https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/1211619328073850886 …

- My bulletin board notebook passed 100 active subscribers, even though the only way to find it is for someone to mention the command in urbit-help - Zero unplanned network breaches (maybe not the first year we've done this?)

- Users have data we want to keep around between breaches (notebooks) - Have Urbit meetups in several cities. Personal milestone, Urbit meetups are happening in my home town (Phoenix) without my instigation. - Docs passed threshold where even I use them some

- Have multiple active chat rooms hosted by not-Tlon - Have more chat rooms than I subscribe to because there's too many for me to keep track of - Community is growing steadily. We'd had bursts of users, but we always used to settle down to a certain minimal level.

We did a ton in 2019, but I'm most proud of the new milestones @urbit passed. Thread: - Launched on chain: Identities are real and permanent, and it's now possible to change sponsor. - Built usable products for the first time: Bridge and post-modulo (July) Chat and Publish

Most startups should be weekend projects. They can't now because they have to be SaaS.https://twitter.com/BitcoinUr/status/1212472801120149509 …

This is why hipster coffee houses with barrels and ropes and flannel don't feel anything like Montana.

Come on guys, aesthetics aren't real. You can't take them without taking the underlying thing. Aesthetics aren't transferrable across paradigms.

This should be a continual game where every time another question comes up we split the group again.

I would like to fill in my answers to these questions in a legible manner so I can get in a private group chat with like-minded people. Eg who is pro hard work/10x engineers, anti BTC maxis/porn/banning porn in the USA?