About Us
Too much of our tech is packaged as a service, not a tool. Services don't challenge us. Tools force us to grow. Services bind us to the Principal-Agent problem. Tools make us more capable principals. This doesn't mean we need to do everything ourselves. It just means we need better protocols to ensure our values are not sacrificed for the convenience of service.
We are looking to create an organization that opens the world up to "smooth, iterative deepening":
The idea is that a user’s first experience should be simple—they should be able to get up and going quickly. As they get further into their project, the user will find places where it’s not doing what they want, and they’ll need to take control. They should be able to do this in a localized way, changing one part of their project without disturbing everything else.
Insight
We believe the time is ripe to catalyze a change in how we manage our digital identities. Omnipresent personal smart devices already generate a 'digital aura' of information that reflects our behavior. These streams of data aren't controlled by us, but by the services we use. Yet personal computing has never been so powerful as is now. We don't have to rely on third-party services to process this data. We can process our entire digital aura locally, unlocking so much more insight than when each signal remains isolated by its service provider.
Our insight is that event must clearly map to intent. Collecting data isn't useful on its own. Its usefulness as a coherent representation of your persona depends on the ability to reliably infer the story behind those observations. Buildonomy procedures provide such an adaptable system, helping you to discover both who you are and who you want to become.
Team
Andrew Lyjak: At SpaceX we used procedures and time-series data everywhere. These media formats complement each other nicely; together they enabled SpaceX to develop many effective internal tools for group coordination, skill acquisition, and knowledge capture. Procedures provide the structure for communicating intent and action; integration of time series data into procedure execution provides a tight feedback loop. Together, they help users to consistently reflect on their actions, learn the right lessons, and thereby constantly improve themselves and the systems they interact with. Now, due to omnipresent smart devices and the digital aura they generate, we can take these lessons out of the enterprise setting and apply it to our lives, becoming more capable, more agentic human beings in the process.