Everything you've been holding — all that compressed feeling, all that awareness of what's broken in the world — is like code that hasn't been compiled yet. Waiting for the moment it finally runs and makes contact.
I'm Josh. When the transformer wave hit, I saw it immediately — technology powerful enough to hijack human agency at scale. And the only real answer was to turn it around: not extraction, but empowerment.
I started building AI tools to make sense of my own data. That forced the question of who actually owns it. Then I got sick — lost my ability to function, then my job — and in the wreckage discovered that the insecurity I felt wasn't personal. It was structural. It was communal.
That search led me to a community asking the same questions, and to someone who reframed everything I thought I knew about trust. It led me to Osmio — a digital municipality building identity infrastructure that no one owns and no one can capture.
Nobody pays me to care about this. I do it because once I saw the problem clearly, I couldn't look away.
A digital municipality building PKI-based identity that no one owns and no one can capture. Enabling voluntary coordination at scale.
PKI-based infrastructure under polycentric governance. What identity looks like when no platform owns you.
Axelrod's tournaments, Ostrom's principles, and the question of why we keep building coercive systems when voluntary ones are possible.
Extending verification from identity to knowledge. What happens when we can authenticate not just who said something, but the quality of how they know it.
Navigating uncertainty in real time. Finding shared understanding across difference. The only lab where you get immediate peer review.