field station, no central node
Notes routed like nutrients through a forest.
A working notebook on decentralized systems, civic infrastructure, and the strange symmetry between how a mycelium moves sugar and how a network moves state. Ideas here are nodes, not a feed. Follow the threads.
the network · 7 live nodes, 5 hyphal edges
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active tip
shared root
field notes
newest first
2025.06.14
Gossip as GroundwaterAnti-entropy, epidemic broadcast, and why rumor is a feature.
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2025.05.28
The Wood Wide Web Is Not a MetaphorWhere the mycorrhizal analogy holds, and exactly where it snaps.
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2025.05.03
Quorum Without a CenterCRDTs, leaderless agreement, and living with disagreement.
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2025.04.11
Civic SubstrateParticipatory budgeting as routing infrastructure for a city.
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2025.03.22
Self-Healing TopologiesHow severed mycelium reroutes, and what failure domains inherit.
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2025.02.27
Spore-Print ProtocolsContent-addressing, reproducibility, and honest provenance.
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2025.01.17
Decay Is ComputationSaprotrophy as information processing; forgetting as design.
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