The Yak Collective engages in collaborative tinkering. The tinkering can be practical and involve Mars rovers, infrastructure, or indie career acceleration. It could be creative, with pop-up poetry jams and speculative fiction. And sometimes it’s conceptual, with Fermi estimation practice, studies of distributed systems, old- and new-wave AI workshopping, and governance. What follows concerns the Yak Collective’s ongoing studies of governance, perhaps the longest running activity track wi...
