Jad Esber 💥

This is pretty big if it goes through: leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billText… "A model operator shall implement a third-party-accessible interoperability interface to allow a user to share the user’s contextual data directly with other artificial intelligence models as the user designates and enable those artificial intelligence models to be notified when new or updated data is available."

proud friend & investor. lfg!

So I'm going through the process of setting this up now, seeing how far I can push my OpenClaw instance without having to sign up for any external services. Thus far, I've been able to successfully send and receive Bitcoin via the Layer 1 as well as via Lightning. Although setting up Lightning was frankly a little bit of a pain in the butt because the network is not quite as reliable. And it seems like the limiting factor is you need about $100 worth of liquidity to even really get started, open enough channels and so on. But once I got it working, it works great, can drive the whole thing over iMessage. Now I'm going ahead and setting up Ethereum as well, which is similarly not frictionless. One of my takeaways from this is that self-custodied wallets and identity feel like critical atomic components for these agents, and there's still quite a bit of work to be done to reduce the number of steps required to bootstrap one of these things. I know Stripe and others are trying to build their own agent-native payment rails or whatever the case is, but I am exceedingly skeptical that they can compete with essentially zero fee, zero KYC rails on the margin, and it's on the margin that matters as these things become more and more capable.

i forget what my agents are working on.

It's not easy to make happen (esp from a product/UX standpoint), but agreed that a legit approach "involves putting users’ data under independent control...for instance, MIDATA, a Swiss cooperative, lets members store their health data on an encrypted platform and decide, case by case, whether to share it." nytimes.com/2026/02/11/opi…

At MozFest 2025, we explored a growing challenge: the race to capture and centralize personal context. A new paper with the team behind Shelf (by @koodos), @Jad_AE, @apuchitnis, @johnpdickerson and collaborators argues that personal context is becoming the next identity layer, and why user agency matters. Read it here: link.mozilla.ai/beyond-digital…

ok it's happening

Each week, I jot down ideas and observations as they come up. At the end of the week, I spend <1 hour synthesizing them in my field notes. I just published my weekly field notes: field-notes.jad.me ^^ (1) If data went to ∞, @getashelf would converge on self​. (2) The “do more” instinct is often a leadership failure mode. (3) Ads are the lazy conclusion. (4) Left Road / Right Road as a shared language for noticing and changing team patterns. (5) Eye patches are moving from private repair to public signal. (6) Choosing your altitude.

Google knows you on Google. Apple on Apple. TikTok on TikTok. ChatGPT in ChatGPT. Your life is the union of all of it. If context isn’t portable, you’re fragmented - or your "favorite" AI becomes your gatekeeper. We need personal context infrastructure.

@EmilVLiu @0xVollhard @ColdClose same thing happens to me! can we please band together and fix this once and for all

@0xVollhard @ColdClose i removed all my chrome extensions/history + all twitter connections. hopefully this fixes it but not sure.

Something weird is happening to my account. There's a weird message by @ColdClose that gets auto sent to people who try to DM me. I did not send this message. It happens when a user tries to send a message request. Worst part is I don't even see this in my chat history. It's only visible to the other user. How do I remove this ? @X @Support. @coldcase is abusing some functionality of this platform to promote their platform.

Narcissism beats voyeurism

yes!

@ybelyayeva @tylervstorm 🫶

Coming back on here with some very happy (and belated!) news from @tylervstorm and I. I guess when they told us becoming co-founders is like getting married, we took it to heart.

Join @apuchitnis, @johnpdickerson (of @MozillaAI) and I for our session at @mozillafestival on the collective land grab for user context reshaping the internet. Join the discussion if you'll be there: schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/230 @mozilla x @koodos

@samhenrigold @tavus congrats Sam!

breaking sam news: today I’m joining @tavus’ design team to facilitate human-computer peace negotiations. for real though I’m very excited about this and can’t wait to get started in about 56 minutes from now after i finish breakfast.

We talk about social media platforms and cloud platforms — but what do we call the emerging layer that aggregates, stores, and shares a user’s context (under their control)? Personal Context Infrastructure? Personal Context Platform? Consumer Memory Platform? Context Network? Trying to find the right term.

Read here: blog.koodos.com/p/personal-con…

Everyone seems to be focused on AI memory, but they're approaching it wrong. Memory must be earned. Your context is fractured across platforms that hoard it. Personal Context Infrastructure puts you back in control. Why this is the most important evolution in personal technology since social media:

@zehranaqvi @loreobsessed curiosity is holy 🤲

letter from the founder + ceo <3

@eddiejiao_obj @cmmnknwledge curious to try!

At @cmmnknwledge, we’ve been working on replacing the phone homescreen with a live document that changes throughout the day with the information you need. We’re looking for beta testers to try it out and help shape the this experience with us. Comment below for a testflight!