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A dystopia with good documentation.

Darknetian is my field notes for an oddly austere world: systems, security, standards, and the messy reality between what’s true and what’s provable.

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The Human Foundation of Open Protocols — Notes From the Domain Summit Keynote

My first keynote, in Berlin: why standards outlive the people who write them, the three schools of thought forming around agentic identity, where domains actually fit, and why the question of who mediates the agentic web is being answered right now.

Me on stage at Domain Summit 2026 in Berlin, mid-talk, with a slide reading "A quick anecdote about technical standards" over a close-up of railroad track behind me