Substrate: be found, be understood, establish fit. Don't sell people the mechanism, make the mechanism work for them.

• Orchestration and autonomy are engineering concerns. Like DevOps or blockchain they may get absorbed into larger platforms. The aim is minimum necessary autonomy for a dependable outcome.
• Composition matters more than orchestration. Capabilities get composed around the user's intent, and the scarce resource becomes judgement about what should happen and whether it was worth it.
• Index fund of self-promotion: Substrate provides representation, evidence and discovery. Members' own AI does the matching, evaluation and action, and pays its own inference.
• Matching is a computation. Opportunity is a condition in the world. Substrate makes capabilities and needs easier to find and assess.
• Five functions: persistent identity, structured evidence, independent discovery, a trustworthy public record, and fitness, which is relational and reciprocal. Test: does it beat a CV?

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