"We are in the third battle for the open internet, and it is a tough battle." essay by me. knightfoundation.org/brewster-kahle/

A lesson I have learned is that these battles are never won outright, but are reframed and refought, decade after decade. The first battle was over the plumbing of the Internet, passing bits around. This battle was with the phone companies over the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) to the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) to the commercial internet.

10 years trying 7 approaches to providing affordable housing for non-profit workers, here are the results so far: brewster.kahle.org/2020/06/28/res… 30-60% of their income went to rent. Yikes, and turns out to be typical across the country. So I set out to find a way to fix this.