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The Science of the Unknowable

how we manage our attention · Adam Wiggins

In a hyperconnected age, I want software to help us find harmony between staying connected and staying focused.

Abductive Reasoning with Syllogistic Forms in Large Language Models

Research in AI using Large-Language Models (LLMs) is rapidly evolving, and the comparison of their performance with human reasoning has become a key concern. Prior studies have indicated that LLMs and humans share similar biases, such as dismissing logically valid...

The Ecosystem

Who Is Going To Buy The Darn Thing? - whois.pdf

Industrial engineering

Work design

Holacracy - Wikipedia

Democratize User Research in 5 Steps

Democratization of user research makes it possible for anyone to study users. Assessment, training, coaching, and helpful resources set people and teams up to succeed.

Zooko's triangle - Wikipedia

Zooko's triangle is a trilemma of three properties that some people consider desirable for names of participants in a network protocol:[1] Human-meaningful: Meaningful and memorable (low-entropy) names are provided to the users. Secure: The amount of damage a malicious entity can inflict on the system should be as low as possible. Decentralized: Names correctly resolve to their respective entities without the use of a central authority or service.

Atmospheric Computing | Paul's Dev Notes

Cloud computing has been extremely successful, but it lost the values that drove personal computing. We can solve this by evolving forward.

Sociocracy

Gerard Endenburg

Grand strategy - Wikipedia

Al's Anorak, 100% Made in USA of 100% Merino Jacquard Wool Fabric

WeatherWool Merino Jacquard Anorak is suitable for a huge variety of outdoor activities - hunting, skiing, survival, social settings. All WeatherWool is 100% made in USA 100% American Materials. WeatherWool is frequently seen on TV History Channel MOUNTAIN MEN, ALONE Mike Horstman, Callie, Amos, JP Quinonez Benji Hill

Does OpenID need to be hard? – Factory Joe

Ur-Fascism

Anniversary

Blacksky Algorithms turns one. Announcing blacksky.cash for private payments and blacksky.tech for one-click server hosting on AT Protocol. Launching 2026.

The Empiricism Gap in Computer Science

So far, I have argued that there is a dissonance between, on the one hand, CS’s founding myths, curricula, and self-image, and, on the other hand, the modern production of knowledge in computer science.

Umberto Eco

Carving Nature at Your Joints

Boundaries and Purpose Trilogy Conclusions

Designing freedom: Allende, Pinochet and the twin experiments in cyber-socialism and neoliberalism

About DiDaT

Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure - Ford Foundation

Society runs on software but software building tools are buckling under the demand. In this report, Nadia Eghbal addresses the challenges.

User:Jimbo Wales/Statement of principles - Wikipedia

The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity - Life With Alac...

Decentralizing the Social Web - main.pdf

Ecosystem Review : bluesky

A review of decentralized social media ecosystems published by Twitter's bluesky team on the 21st January 2021

Brad's Thoughts on the Social Graph

Adactio: Journal—Portability

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve got a real thing about portable social networks. And I’m not the only one. At a recent meetup in San Francisco a bunch of the Web’s finest minds got together to tackle this issue. You can track the progress (and contribute) on the microformats wiki.

Adactio: Journal—More thoughts on portable social networks

The Web is about distribution, not centralisation.

Oblique Strategies - Wikipedia

No, Google Did Not Unilaterally Decide to Kill XSLT – Eric’s Archived Thoughts

Even if this proposal goes through, XSLT could still be used server-side.  You could use libraries that support XSLT versions more recent than 1.0, even!  Thus, XML could still be turned into HTML, just not in the client via native support, though JS or WASM polyfills, or even add-on extensions, would still be an option.  Is that good or bad?  Like everything else in our field, the answer is “it depends”.

Reflexivity revisited: the sociocybernetics of belief, meaning, truth and power | Kybernetes | Emerald Publishing

A " system of beliefs "   | Download Scientific Diagram

Club of Remy – Really-relevant Emergency Mindfully-minding You

(PDF) Reflexivity revisited: The sociocybernetics of belief, meaning, truth and power

PDF | Purpose – To present sociocybernetic models of observers in interaction with the aim of encouraging reflection on what is good practice in human... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Problem Tree – MSP Guide

Tool 14 - Download here Aim of the tool Create a structural analysis of the causes and effects of an issue or problem. When to use it? Problem tree analysis is very useful in planning processes. It fits well in the Shared Language stage of MSPs. What is a Problem Tree? Problem tree analysis (also called…

Organizational Mapping Tool (OMT)

Knowledge Diffusion via AUTomated Organizational CARTography [AUTOCART]

Mapping | Org Topologies

Aligned Autonomy at Scale (from Spotify Model)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team

Multipolar Traps or Moloch Traps

In a complex world facing many challenges, multipolar traps emerge when self-interests conflict with collective well-being, leading to detrimental outcomes. To break free, we need to prioritize collaboration, long-term thinking, and shared goals, working across sectors and nations.

The Conscience of Silicon Valley: A Critical Examination of Tristan Harris

When the messenger becomes part of the message, we owe it to ourselves to understand the full picture.

ddd-crew/context-mapping

A Bounded Context or a team that works in it is free if changes in other Bounded Contexts do not influence its success or failure. There is, therefore, no organizational or technical link of any kind between these teams.

Making online workshops great … from the ground up - Vaughn Tan

tl;dr: Online workshops rarely work well, and we keep on doing them because they would be too expensive/infeasible to do in-person. This is the

tldraw • very good free whiteboard

A free and instant virtual whiteboarding with online collaboration. No signup required. Works on all devices: mobile, tablets, and desktop.

The origins of forward-looking decision making: Cybernetics, operational research, and the foundations of forecasting - ScienceDirect

Transduction — a powerful and important concept that few have heard of | by Benjamin P. Taylor | Medium

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Model - Wikipedia

The Strategic Intelligence Implications of Circular Causality on JSTOR

Jordan R. Beauregard, The Strategic Intelligence Implications of Circular Causality, American Intelligence Journal, Vol. 37, No. 1, Intelligence Community Leadership: The Next Generation (2020), pp. 98-106

draft-newbold-at-architecture-00 - Authenticated Transfer: Architecture Overview

Authenticated Transfer (AT) is a collection of protocol components that together provide a generic framework for interoperable social web applications, using global aggregations of interlinked, self- certifying data records.

Liberating Cohesion: RDF - strategic structures

The Software Description Ontology

Thrownness

Ben Holliday » From product to a service mindset

s a set of values or principles, a product mindset is often described as putting user-centricity at the forefront of work, with decisions and agile development being driven by an understanding of users’ needs, behaviours, and pain points. However, in reality, it’s still all too common for teams to use user-centred approaches, but without truly thinking and acting in ways that question the effect decisions have beyond their immediate delivery focus

Research Slop - by Jess Holbrook - General Purpose

“The absolute epitome of AI slop,” then “change AI to Research,” from Gemini Nano Banana.

Mozilla Summary Portfolio Strategy

DARPA Agent Markup Language - Wikipedia

A major innovation of the languages was to use RDF and XML for a basis, and to use RDF namespaces to organize and assist with the integration of arbitrarily many different and incompatible ontologies.

Design & Engineering Methodology for Organizations

Language/action perspective - Wikipedia

Epistemology - Eigenbehavior as a Moral Idea

The Great Forgetting: Why Cybernetics Disappeared When We Needed It Most | by Christoforus Yoga Haryanto | Medium

The Strategic Intelligence Implications of Circular Causality on JSTOR

Jordan R. Beauregard, The Strategic Intelligence Implications of Circular Causality, American Intelligence Journal, Vol. 37, No. 1, Intelligence Community Leadership: The Next Generation (2020), pp. 98-106

Feedback, Circular Causality, and System Dynamics | SpringerLink

Chapter 7 is about feedback, circular causality, and system dynamics modeling. Circular causality due to positive or negative feedback is a major cause of complexity. When the causality between variables is not linear but...

In search of the optimal toolkit | Santa Fe Institute

In a new paper in Science Advances, SFI External Professor Marcus Hamilton and colleagues present a new model showing the trade-offs between the cost and utility of new tools in small-scale societies.

Füllsack M. & Riegler A. (2017) Thinking in Eigenbehaviors as a Transdisciplinary Approach. Constructivist Foundations 12(3): 239–245

Context: By proposing to regard objects as “tokens for eigenbehavior,” von Foerster’s seminal paper opposes the intuitive subject-object dualism of traditional philosophy, which considers objects to be instances of an external world Problem: We argue that this proposal has two implications, one for epistemology and one for the demarcation between the natural sciences and the humanities. Method: Our arguments are based on insights gained in computational models and from reviewing the contribution...

The Fractal Organization

Fractal Organisation Theory

Top-down hierarchies are typically characterised by command-and-control systems of authority that often create harmful stress and internal competition for advancement within organisations. The perv...

Summer of Protocols — Motivation & Rationale — Dorian Taylor

My thesis is essentially that people lose resolution as the pool of resources under their control increases: as the pile gets bigger, they just round off at bigger orders of magnitude. When individuals are in control of vast quantities of resources, even the smartest, most well-meaning person will make what are effectively targeting errors.

Satisficing

Past-Future of Cybernetics - von Foerster - BCL.doc

Powerful Ideas Need Love Too!

JaynesProbabilityTheory

Insights Aren’t Outcomes: Research Recommendation Breakage - NN/G

A3 Problem-Solving - A Resource Guide | Lean Enterprise Institute

Failure mode and effects analysis

Circular Causality: A Short History (with receipts) | by Maddy Muscari | Medium

Why? Because in nature, causes and effects often form circuits, not one-way streets

Gregory Bateson on deutero‐learning and double bind: A brief conceptual history - Visser - 2003 - Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - Wiley Online Library

foti-on-economy-algorithmic-pluralism-report.pdf

Taxonomy and Definitions for Terms Related to Driving Automation Systems for On-Road Motor Vehicles J3016_202104

Sociocracy 3.0 | Effective Collaboration At Any Scale

Strategic Theory for the 21st Century: The Little Book on Big Strategy

Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) | Radboud University

Critical AI literacy is crucial for our world, as AI applications rapidly spread across society. In this project, we educate students, education professionals, and the public on how uncritical AI adoption causes harm and what steps can minimize it.

Critical AI

On this page are some resources for Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.

Open space technology - Wikipedia

Home | SCiO - Systems and Complexity in Organisation

When Groups Get Stuck on the Wrong Problem – Jeremy R. Winget, PhD

Many coordination failures stem from misaligned problem definitions. Before debate, define what “good” looks like and who holds which pieces of information.

Benefit corporation - Wikipedia

Historically, U.S. corporate law has not been structured or tailored to address the situation of for-profit companies that wish to pursue a social or environmental mission.[29] While corporations generally have the ability to pursue a broad range of activities, corporate decision-making is usually justified in terms of creating long-term shareholder value. The idea that a corporation has as its purpose to maximize financial gain for its shareholders was first articulated in Dodge v. Ford Motor ...

The Viable System Model and the Taxonomy of Organizational Pathologies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Retrospective: Modelling Overleaf with the Viable System Model - Overleaf, Online-LaTeX-Editor

Looking at Overleaf through the lens of the Viable System Model, as part of our regular retrospective programme for continuous improvement.

Acting with the World: Agency in the Anthropocene

[2510.19894] The Risks of Industry Influence in Tech Research

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2510.19894: The Risks of Industry Influence in Tech Research

What is Discourse? | Discourse - Civilized Discussion

Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.

Seven basic tools of quality - Wikipedia

Strategic Assumptions Surfacing and Testing

Each issue and key assumption is subjected to further analysis to adduce the data and warrants

From Description to Correspondence: Anthropology in Real Time | 11 | D

Anthropology’s critical examination of its own founding conception of the human—as a being that, by its own nature, transcends nature—inevitably entailed a

Trauma and Recovery | A Working Library

Herman’s canonical work focuses on the necessity of understanding trauma within a social and political context.

Deming's 14 points

Institute leadership. The aim of supervision should be to help people and machines and gadgets to do a better job. Supervision of management is in need of an overhaul, as well as supervision of production workers. Drive out fear, so that everyone may work effectively for the company.

Mintzberg's 5 Ps for Strategy

Mintzberg's 5 Ps for Strategy

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