Architecting Anti-Fragile Trust: A Builder's Perspective on Surviving the Polycr

This ad hoc meetup session features Roger Qiu, who will share his perspective shaped by direct encounters with the fragility of global digital systems:

Our global digital systems are dangerously brittle. This isn't a theoretical risk; it's a painful reality, as I recently experienced while navigating the monolithic digital borders of both the US and Malaysia. These systems are non-modular, rife with single points of failure, and unprepared for the shocks of a "polycrisis" world defined by conflict, climate events, and pandemics.

Using my personal experience as a starting point, we will deconstruct the architectural flaws common to both our national identity systems and the core protocols of Web 2.0. We will explore the deep "tail risks" we are all inheriting.

The second half of the talk will shift from deconstruction to construction. I will share a set of first-principles for building truly resilient, sovereign, and verifiable systems. We will use our own research and architectural explorations as a case study in applying these principles, inviting a community-wide discussion on how we can all design for a world of cascading failures.
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Roger Qiu is the CEO of Matrix AI. As a systems architect and first-principles thinker, he has spent over a decade researching the deep structures of digital trust. His work, informed by direct experience with the fragility of global digital systems, focuses on exploring and promoting architectural patterns for resilient, sovereign, and verifiable infrastructure to meet the challenges of our "polycrisis" world.