Steps to reduce Facebook’s grasp on my data.

Protocols are everywhere. They lurk in every corner of our human experience, forcing people and machines to conform to identifiable standards and patterns of behavior.

What is a protocol?¹

Thesis

Money is many things: a medium of exchange, a “social technology” (according to the economist Felix Martin), the metric by which we value goods (and often ourselves), and one of the best means by which we can interact peaceably with strangers. But money…