David Janke
numbermumbler.bsky.social
David Janke
@numbermumbler.bsky.social
Tech Strategy & System Design
Web3 should have been the experimental lab for new social and economic contracts. Instead, it became the perfect mirror of financialized late capitalism: frictionless, opaque, and governed by insiders.
April 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
If the last 20 years were about creating open platforms for interaction, maybe the next 20 are about creating closed, trusted communities. What would it look like to design an online space where participation had dignity again?

What breaks when scale is no longer the goal?
March 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Reposted by David Janke
1/7 Our paper on individual variability in decision-making is finally out in @nature.com! Inspired by the classic work by Mante and Sussillo, we trained many rats to solve context-dependent decision-making, and we found that different brains use different neural mechanisms to solve the same task!
Individual variability of neural computations underlying flexible decisions - Nature
Behavioural experiments to study decision-making in response to context-dependent accumulation of evidence provide testable models that are consistent with the heterogeneity in neural signatures among...
www.nature.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM