Geek Fish is a club of builders. We make purpose-driven things in the age of rapid AI development, not to chase novelty, but to shape the future according to our Deep Values. We learn the hard parts of Technology so we can design with agency, spot manipulation, and build tools that help people and communities stay free.
In Geek Fish, FISH is a definition. A Fish is a Sovereign Human who is Fully Individuated. A Fish can make commitments, give informed consent, hold boundaries, and still choose interdependence. This matters because we are building together, and collaboration only works when agency is real and accountable.
We also name the other side of the map. There are Fish and Non-Fish. This is not a moral ladder: it is a practical classification for building and governance. “Non-Fish” includes people who are still becoming individuated, and also non-human actors like organisations, bots, and institutions, plus contexts where agency is constrained. Naming this helps us choose the right kinds of agreements, safeguards, and responsibilities.
Geek Fish shares to build. The club’s core habit is not “ship in private, announce later,” but “build in the open, with friends,” so that knowledge compounds. We publish notes, prototypes, checklists, design patterns, postmortems, and tiny reusable modules. We prefer work that can be forked, remixed, audited, and taught, because the goal is not individual genius, but collective capability.
We treat sharing as a technical practice, not a marketing exercise. Sharing means writing things so others can run them, understand them, and improve them. We use Literate Transparency: plain-language explanations, small experiments, diagrams, and decision logs that make systems legible to non-specialists. The standard is: if a smart community member can’t follow what we did, we haven’t finished.
In practice, Geek Fish runs building loops: study circles, teardowns, “model spelunking,” and rapid prototyping. We test claims, map incentives, and look for second-order effects. Then we build: tools, guides, workflows, and community standards that make it easier to choose value-aligned tech and harder for harmful defaults to spread.
Geek Fish treats governance as part of the build. If a tool affects people, the people affected deserve a say in its boundaries and its evolution. So we experiment with lightweight, forkable structures: rotating facilitation, clear roles, visible decision trails, and the ability to branch when values diverge without turning disagreement into secrecy.
The output of Geek Fish is software, yes, but also shared understanding and reusable craft. We are building a culture where people can make, share, and steer powerful technology without losing their humanity.
# See - Fully Individuated Sovereign Humans - Literate Transparency - Community-Driven Development - Test of Time and the Power of Fork