new Kafka Protocol case study “Kuhdorf” https://www.theocharis.dev/blog/kidnapped-by-deutsche-bahn/ (cattle transport on German trains has all kinds of bad echoes)

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Notes on Early Memory Techniques, Distributed Cognition & Digital Memory Architectures An overview of the past six months of reading led by @keikreutler from Protocolized's Memory Research Group https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/memory-research-group-six-months

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In SoP we’ve used Tension = tradeoff + conflict” to scaffold the definition of a protocol as an “engineered argument” into a general purpose tool/mental model. Here is one fundamental tension I just clarified for myself: Rhetorical confidence vs epistemic doubt. You need a certain level of rhetorical confidence to lead groups. You need a certain level of epistemic doubt to seek truth. The two are often in tension. Usually the leader lets one drive the other. Ie either lies about confidence in truths or fails to project enough confidence to engender trust and loyalty in followers. If there is a convention of protocol literacy you can perhaps separate the two. The rationalist crowd tried with its “epistemic status: xxx” protocol for writing but that turned into a vacuous virtue signal. My resolution: A single leader cannot resolve this tension. But a leader with a group of truly empowered followers, or better still, a group of peer leaders, who can express genuine dissent can do so. Then you can proceed with sufficient confidence to lead but also sufficient doubt to discover. The only systematic model for this I know of is Amazon’s “disagree but commit.” A leader simultaneously underwrites the confidence of another leader while bracketing the commitment with systematic doubt resolves the tension. The risk of being wrong gets distributed and socialized among all who disagree-and-commit, but leader gets to project sufficient confidence to work the case that they’re right. It’s an informal version of a courtroom argument actually. One of the two lawyers is going to be wrong, but the judge and jury proceduralize matters in a way that both can argue with sufficient rhetorical confidence without being in bad faith.

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We’re live at Devconnect 🌞 https://www.youtube.com/live/szklyKbIiuk

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Sneak preview of goodies in store for attendees of Bridge Atlas

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Super comic https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/21/style/superman-attic-most-expensive-comic-scli-intl

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Teaser/cheat-code: For those of you attending the Bridge Atlas event at Devconnect on Saturday, this fascinating building will feature in a question I'll ask in my opening talk. I just visited it 😎 Register here: https://devconnect.org/calendar?event=bridge-atlas https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palacio_de_Aguas_Corrientes

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Some found protocol art. There are some terrible quality bean bag chairs in the community hub spaces at Devconnect, and half of them have leaked these little styrofoam balls all over the the floor. It's outdoor and so the breeze blows them along. They're just the right size to flow along the grooves, and just light enough to be blown about by the wind, but not so light they get lofted. So you get a mix of smooth and striated movement.

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SoP gang is hanging out in orange discussion hub for the next hour. Come chat with us and get yourself a Protocol Watcher button.

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Huh, that event looks kinda cool

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https://spacetypegenerator.com/stripes

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We just released the final episode of Bridge Atlas – featuring @justindrake and Shreya Shankar – building a bridge between Ethereum and AI. Kudos to Christine Kim for crushing it as host. Make sure to register for the Bridge Atlas workshop @devcon on November 22nd.

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Turns out Danny Ryan has already been thinking in terms bridges and bridge building for months before we roped him in for the opener conversation to kick off our Bridge Atlas event at Devconnect. Nice bit of serendipity there.

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Looking forward to being in Argentina in summertime next week (but not to the schlep to get there or back I have to say). Summer of Protocols team (southern hemisphere mode) will be there to run the Bridge Atlas event at Devconnect on Saturday 22. Join us https://devconnect.org/calendar?event=bridge-atlas

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