Hi 👋 I’m Jay Springett
Writer, Podcaster, and Strategist
Welcome to thejaymo.net! My homepage on the World Wide Web since 2009
I am interested in the design, administration and flourishing of worlds of all kinds
My primary thesis: All techno-social systems should be seen through the lens of worlds
I’m currently writing my first non-fiction book: The Web Was a Side Quest — an exploration of worlds as a medium and how they came to be. My essay collection on World Running can be found at worldrunning.guide
Since 2018 I’ve been making Permanently Moved. A 301 second long personal podcast that condenses complex ideas into digestible bites
An early voice in the Solarpunk movement, I’m committed to envisioning and navigating towards sustainable, regenerative futures
My new interview podcast on creativity and aphantasia is called Experience.Computer
Contact me about working together
Permanently Moved is an iTunes Top 100 personal journal.
301 seconds in length. Written, recorded and edited by me weekly since 2018.
Episode 301 | 2520
Begun at age 32, completed today, the day after I turned 40: one fifth of a lifetime distilled into a body of work.
Landing Sequence | 2519
This show represents an enormous amount of effort and discipline. Sustaining any single format for eight years is achievement enough for me.
King of Mind | 2518
The glowing screen does not possess the king of mind. You merely have rehearsed the reflex of the infinite scroll.
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Weeknotes 🗓️
A weekly missive sent from my virtual desktop. Each issue covers what I’ve been: reading, doing, thinking about, some link recommendations, a good meme and more.
EOY 2025 | Weeknotes
I think this is my last post of the year here on the blog. This time next week, I will be tucked up in…
Narrative Bubbles
Almost to the same extent that I find the current moment ‘thrilling’, I also find it extremely annoying. Mostly, I’m exhausted by ‘discourse.’
Experience.Computer is slow radio about high tech.
An interview show by Jay Springett about aphantasia, creativity, and the imagination
The show examines how people perceive the world, and how they work with the creative tools they use to make their work with
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Slides and speaker notes for my keynote on Solarpunk given at Unsound Festival (2019)
Solarpunk is a collective ‘Memetic Engine’. A cultural construct, a tool to power and provides the ‘re-futuring’ that our collective imagination needs
AI 🤖
I’ve been using modern AI tools for years, I’ve also already had my identity stolen by an AI slop content farm. Obviously I’ve had thoughts….
World Running 🌐
A speculative research project about worlding worlds, and running them
Pinned 📌
Some posts that caught algos attention. An ideal starting point if you’re new around here
The Doc Web
Social media is no longer reliable for reaching an audience. But maybe there’s a weird way forward?
The Alms Race: A Brief History of Web2
The Alms Race: The escalating development of product features providing direct financial plumbing (and community) tools to users occurring across the legacy Web2 ecosystem.
Solarpunk: A Container for More Fertile Futures
My original essay from Solarpunk Magazine’s first issue. It examines the rise of Solarpunk as a creative force for sustainable futures.
Future Music
I am fixated on the vocal static. I hear at the edges the AI-anna Grande model unspooling into pure material waveform. This is future music.
Wind-up Worlds
Wind-up Worlds, Web3, World Running and the urgent collective pivot we need to make towards Slow Social experiences.
PERMISSIVE IPs
Exploring the potential for community owned/governed story worlds by splitting the difference between ‘Internet Protocol vs Intellectual Property’.
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I’ve been blogging since 2010. Web-logs are the most social of medias.
November 2025 | Photo 365
Photo 365 2025. Year 4 Month 11. Photo-a-day for the month of Nov 2025.
October 2025 | Photo 365
Photo 365 2025. Year 4 Month 10. Photo-a-day for the month of Oct 2025.
Forest Bed | The Party’s Over
I’m really happy to announce that my band Forest Bed’s new single and music video is out now!
Cloudflare’s NET Dollar: AI Agents, Crypto Rails, and Web Payments
This isn’t the first time I’ve talked about AI agents, agents scurrying around paying for things with blockchains.