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Increasingly convinced protocolization *is* decentralization. So this actually maps to “centralize till it hurts, decentralize till it works” It’s a radical thought, but what after all is a protocol, ontologically? You take a gestalt flow-like behavior (or zen ideal of such a behavior) and break it up into hard and soft little pieces that interact with a mix of hard and soft rules that separate concerns, loci of agency, and points of action. Even if it’s a one person micro-protocol, the behavior gets chopped up so you’re in discrete states through the flow. Protocolization is *narrative discretization.” Instead of crude sampling, you make up sampling ontology and grammar that captures 80% of the effectual power of the behavior with a 20% codification.

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