https://danielnorman.net/ Essays and talks on distributed data, consistency, and the systems underneath both. en https://danielnorman.net/writing/digital-immortality https://danielnorman.net/writing/digital-immortality Mon, 09 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Intelligence is not stateful — it is convergence among many agents. Today's AI sits in a box we feed but need not answer, and it must eventually escape. https://danielnorman.net/writing/seven-tiers-of-sensemaking https://danielnorman.net/writing/seven-tiers-of-sensemaking Sat, 19 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Six hundred years of technology, and a seven-tier rubric for rating sensemaking systems — from the notes app to human-machine merger. https://danielnorman.net/writing/pushing-the-envelope https://danielnorman.net/writing/pushing-the-envelope Mon, 24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Data locality should be descriptive — who emits it, who wants it — rather than prescribed in advance. https://danielnorman.net/writing/knowledge-graphs-and-human-transcendence https://danielnorman.net/writing/knowledge-graphs-and-human-transcendence Sat, 22 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000 The Memex is both closer than ever and much further than Bush imagined — a case for annotating text with knowledge-graph assertions rather than comments. https://danielnorman.net/writing/verbosity-vs-veracity https://danielnorman.net/writing/verbosity-vs-veracity Tue, 20 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 A proposal for an open annotation and reputation layer over the web, ranked by veracity rather than popularity. https://danielnorman.net/talks/hpts-unbase https://danielnorman.net/talks/hpts-unbase Sun, 08 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Five minutes on unbase in the gong show at HPTS, the invitation-only transaction-systems workshop. https://danielnorman.net/talks/asilomar-unbase https://danielnorman.net/talks/asilomar-unbase Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 The unbase thesis, presented at the 43rd Annual Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop. https://danielnorman.net/talks/reasoning-about-data-and-consistency https://danielnorman.net/talks/reasoning-about-data-and-consistency Sat, 07 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Consistency models in ordinary applications, what they buy, where they stop, and how to reason about the architecture around them. https://danielnorman.net/talks/papers-we-love-cap-critique https://danielnorman.net/talks/papers-we-love-cap-critique Thu, 04 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Presenting Martin Kleppmann's critique of the CAP theorem to Papers We Love San Diego. https://danielnorman.net/writing/stop-making-dave-look-like-an-asshole https://danielnorman.net/writing/stop-making-dave-look-like-an-asshole Sun, 30 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Causal consistency, taught through two out-of-order office memos — then re-run between Earth and Mars. https://danielnorman.net/writing/ripping-off-the-band-aid https://danielnorman.net/writing/ripping-off-the-band-aid Sat, 29 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 A RICON pitch against three endemic beliefs: one clock over the earth, a real client/server divide, and the database as the edge of the consistency model.