Summer of Protocols

In human systems, successful protocols are those that navigate the rebound effects their own efficiencies create, rather than those that achieve the greatest efficiency in isolation. I've been working on a protocol lifecycle:

1. Initial protocol design solves coordination problems.
2. Efficiency improvements expand adoption and utility.
3. Partial rebounds occur as usage increases.
4. Complete rebounds emerge in certain domains as protocol efficiencies drive their accelerated exploitation.
5. Protocol debt accumulates as backward compatibility entrenches vulnerabilities.
6. New protocols emerge, or existing weak protocols are integrated, to address the emergent challenges and unintended consequences stemming from the lifecycle of preceding protocols.