In Correspondence #55

Plurality, ATProto and The Adolescence of Technology

Dear friends,

Welcome to the latest edition of In Correspondence, the last before our new arrival 🙈

After hitting send, I’ll prepare the space for the first in-person Technological Metamodernism meetup here at Berghs in Stockholm (slides).

What I’ve been up to

• Hilma Church-Turing and I published another chapter of Technological Metamodernism on Plurality ⿻. Co-author of the Plurality book, Glen Weyl, called it “maybe the deepest treatment yet”

• I started integrating Dandelion with ATProto, the protocol behind Bluesky, which got a great reception there. A record number of events have been listed on Dandelion this month (an increase of 20% from the previous best month)

• I created a way to plot custom charts based on Artificial Analysis data (welcome to the Pareto frontier, Kimi K2.5!)

• Jag avslutade en kurs i svenska på B2-nivå på Folkuniversitetet

• I spent Christmas with Laura and family near Uppsala where we enjoyed some beautiful skies

What I’ve been reading

Since last time, I’ve shared 26 items to my knowledgegraph. Some highlights:

• The Adolescence of Technology by Dario Amodei

• A World Unobserved by Brendan McCord

• What Got Lost in the Optimization by Alex Komoroske

• Our Overfitted Century by Erik Hoel

On ATProto:

• ATProto Isn’t What You Think

• ATProto: The Enshittification Killswitch That Enables Resonant Computing

• Atmospheric Computing

• Open Social

I can’t believe it took me this long to discover Henrik Karlsson:

• A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox

• Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process

• First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us

Books I read

I read Children of Time and The Bilingual Brain. I’m now reading Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading by Nadia Asparouhova.

Offerings from friends

Three friends doing great therapy/coaching/counselling work:

• Couples therapy with Jem Stopes

• Relational and empowerment coaching with Gaia Harvey Jackson

  • Relating in Awareness - nondual meditation & nourishing connection with Gaia Harvey Jackson, London, Sat 31st Jan 2026

  • Skills for Lasting Love: 5 week course with Gaia Harvey Jackson, online, Tue 10th Mar 2026

• Counselling with Conor Cregg

  • Being a Man: Weekend Men’s Retreat with Conor Cregg, London, Sat 31st Jan 2026

  • Men’s Circle 4 Week Closed Group: Magician, Warrior, Lover, King with Conor Cregg, online, Tue 3rd Feb 2026

A few other selected events (view all recommendations on my site):

• Meditation & Movement Improv Jam with Adventures in Awareness, London, Thu 29th Jan 2026

• Innocence: Circling & Surrendered Leadership weekend, Copenhagen with Peter Munthe-Kaas and Karen Mareike Christensen, Copenhagen, Sat 7th Feb 2026

• Ace Collectiv: 4th Birthday & Imbolc Celebration - Tea Ceremony, Ecstatic Dance, Song Circle & Sound Bath with Ace Collectiv, Bristol, Sun 8th Feb 2026

Until next time, and over the threshold,
Stephen