01
Own the software.
Water nourishes all things without trying, and asks nothing of them. Software should be the same: free, useful, scrutable to the last line, and running on your own machine. What you can't read, you don't own — you rent.
02
Keep the data local.
Yours, on your machine — and merged with others only when you choose. Collaboration is trading signed deltas, merged like belts, not surrendered to a host.
03
Distrust the center.
Centralized compute and storage that isn't earned by active community merges is bad most of the time. Push the keys and the compute back to the edges.
Own it. Read it. Run it anywhere. Keep your data close, trade it freely, and be slow to trust a center that didn't earn it by merging.