# Protocol Pulse #1 *Inaugural Edition* By [Roots & Rooks](https://paragraph.com/@rootsandrooks) · 2024-01-09 --- On Tuesdays we talk protocol. The Tuesday edition of _The Protocolist_ is going to be a link bag. One part **protocols in the news** and one part **things I found interesting recently**. Here we go. ### Protocols in the News * Emmett Shear, ex-CEO of Twitch, [talks protocols on X](https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1744179787839729672). * Uniswap was [the most popular protocol](https://twitter.com/jconorgrogan/status/1742914500947271731) on the Ethereum blockchain in 2023. * Hardware Secrets [published a guide](https://hardwaresecrets.com/guide-to-iot-protocols-and-standards/) to key Internet of Things (IOT) protocols. * [Protocols at work](https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/02/travel/tokyo-plane-crash-safety-rules-analysis-intl/index.html) during the recent plane crash at Haneda airport. * Dave Fornell thinks [protocol changes are needed](https://cardiovascularbusiness.com/topics/clinical/cardiac-surgery/it-may-be-time-revisit-patient-selection-protocols-heart-transplants) to improve heart transplant efficacy. * [Visakan Veerasamy](https://twitter.com/visakanv) on how to use [handover protocols for continuity](https://www.visakanv.com/archives/2020/05/07/handover-protocols/). ### Assorted Interesting Things of Various Quality * [Celine’s Laws](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celine%27s_laws). Supposedly as universal as Newton’s Laws. * [Bonini’s Paradox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonini%27s_paradox). Accurate models are bad models. * I love Poland. [Samo Burja’s take](https://brief.bismarckanalysis.com/p/how-poland-became-a-middle-class) on its rise to the middle. “As a political economy, protocol modulates, regulates, and manages the interrelationality between vital systems.” Alexander Galloway [Subscribe now](https://protocolist.substack.com/subscribe?) --- *Originally published on [Roots & Rooks](https://paragraph.com/@rootsandrooks/protocol-pulse-1)*