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TL;DR – This is a post about billionaires who love eugenics, support a pro-eugenics government, and sell us a product that they promise will help their longterm eugenic goals. But really this is a post about how I feel, when colleagues treat that product as though it might have merit, if we just give it a chance.
After spending a few hundred pages detailing how states go wrong, James C. Scott turns his gaze around and identifies four alternative patterns that just might make it possible for things to go rig...
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From August 4 to September 2, 2020, I (Matt, creator of DIY Packraft) hiked and paddled from one end of Vancouver Island to the other. Watch the highlights video below, or scroll down to read a day-by-day account of this trip. Vancouver Island Geography Vancouver Island is a large island off the west coast of
Improving western culture's ecstatic literacy. Click to read Ecstatic Integration, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Henry Mintzberg from McGill University defined strategy as a pattern in a stream of decisions to contrast with a view of strategy as planning
LocalSend is a free, open source, and cross-platform tool to share files locally between devices. No internet required.
Technology has always been a part of human existence. Today though, says the experimental physicist, Ursula M. Franklin, technology has large-scale effects on culture itself. Ursula Franklin is an experimental physicist, University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, a former board member of the National Research Council and the Science Council of Canada, and a companion of the Order...
A concept for making together with others, to better express complex multi-species relations, elaborated by Donna Haraway and others
Toolshed gathers and shares tools for a livable future. A project of Sayler/Morris and collaborators, based at The Basilica in Hudson, NY.
A deep dive into how Lexicons work on ATProto, and how it impacts the different ways people are building video apps on the network.
Honeycomb is the only observability platform you need. Get all your data in one unified platform with limitless possibilities.
How to understand the relation between design and research is a longstanding question in design theory and practice. It is also a question in design pedagogy, especially in taught postgraduate progra...
Here is a link to the new Ready-ing paper published in the journal of Systems Reseach and Behavioral Science. If it does not open the paperâ¦
Abduction is the process of forming an explanatory hypothesis. It is the only logical operation which introduces any new idea; for induction does nothing but determine a value and deduction merely evolves the necessary consequences of a pure hypothesis (Peirce, 1998, p. 216) What seems to be the case is that there are, in nature […]
“Beautiful one, give us our need. We give you our words.”
Since the beginning of business research and teaching, the basic assumptions of the discipline have been intensely debated. One of these basic assumptions
“It takes two to know one.” One of the many riddles that Gregory Bateson–the anthropologist, philosopher, biologist, psychologist, and high priest of cybernetics–left behind when he died of re...
That’s not a name you hear often nowadays. But you should. The text below draws on an essay I published back in 2020. But the questions it raises are far more relevant today.
About the ishraqi institute
FlowingData
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This book describes the neurology of a business as a new dimension of organization and presents the Viable System Model (VSM).
A good enough pathway to reasonable decisions.
An in-depth course on design tokens: concepts, Figma Variables, code, processes, best practices, and more.
In May 2021, Humberto Maturana, a Chilean Biologist, died aged 92. In these videos he explains the differences between information transfer within biological and non-biological systems.
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Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?
Anatomy of an AI System - The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources. By Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler (2018)
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BIOLOGY OF LOVE By Humberto Maturana Romesin and Gerda Verden-Zoller (1996) - TOWARDS LIFE-KNOWLEDGE
Into the gap.
onian Enchantment
Includes bibliographical references
Much like open source software, open science is a path to distributed collaboration. By sharing the data from experiments and investigations open and available, scientists can multiply impact and discovery for teams they've never even met.Our gues...
Why the former owner of the LA Dodgers, Frank McCourt, thinks he’s the right person to rescue TikTok.
He made it clear that he did not think of himself as a pacifist, believing that there are certainly times where arms are necessary, but by referring to defense as killings and bombings, humanity as a whole would be less inclined to embrace violent reactions so quickly.[9]
How to make better software with systems-thinking
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The spirit of my father Martti is alive at CMI. It is marked by a sense of inclusion, an empathy for counterparts, and a willingness to engage with all when the timing is right.
A comparison of taxonomies with classification systems.
The Uncertainty Project is a community-led playbook of models and techniques that help teams make better decisions, faster.
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How redesigning your syllabus can transform your teaching, your classroom, and the way your students learn
WOSC was founded in 1969, with the desire to support the communication of people and organizations related to systems thinking and cybernetics around the world.