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
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Permanently Moved is an iTunes Top 100 personal journal.
301 seconds in length. Written, recorded and edited by me weekly since 2018.
Conflict of Disinterest | 2413
We should abandon the external ‘Battle for Attention’ and instead engage in an internal ‘Conflict of Disinterest’
Surface Flatness | 2412
Don’t you think that the surface of the Internet feels super flat right now? I don’t just mean it’s UX but the…
Little Computer People | 2411
Right now AI is the worst it’s ever going to be. It costs about £60 a day to house a little computer…
Weeknotes 🗓️
My Weeknotes Newsletter has been sent from my virtual desktop since 2018. If you’re interested in my work and curious about my influences, consider this newsletter your personal weekly dispatch from my world
A Year of Freedom
Day Ones ‘On this Day’ feature informs me that it’s been a year since I installed the site/app blocker freedom.to.
Not The Sort Of Person I Want To Be
I don’t want to be part of a negative Internet, so I choose not to add to it. I don’t see any…
Back 2 It
Got back from Portugal late Tuesday and have spent the week getting back into things. Winding back up to full speed this…
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Experience.Computer is slow radio about high tech.
An interview show 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 Solarpunk keynote 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
World Running 🌐
A speculative research project about worlding worlds, and running them
AI 🤖
I’ve been using modern AI tools since before they had web UI. I’ve also already had my identity stolen by an AI sludge content farm. Obviously I’ve had thoughts….
Pinned 📌
Some posts that caught algos attention. An ideal starting point if you’re new around here
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…
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…
Hiring Soon: World Runner | Design Fiction
I recently travelled to the near future. Unfortunately all I could bring back was this PDF of the job description for a…
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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Conflict of Disinterest | 2413
We should abandon the external ‘Battle for Attention’ and instead engage in an internal ‘Conflict of Disinterest’
Solarpunk Means Dreaming Green | Human Entities 2024
Recording of my talk ‘Solarpunk Means Dreaming Green’ at Human Entities 2024 in partnership with the Lisbon Architecture Triennale