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Context: I aim to show how the act of naming, in our activity as interpretants/observers is formally and fundamentally related to both our being, and to the Gödelian structure of understanding of …
How generative AI systems capture a core function of language Looking at the emergence of generative AI, Language Machines presents a new theory of meaning i...
AI isn't replacing developers, it's transforming them. Just as NoCode created specialists and cloud turned sysadmins into DevOps engineers, AI elevates engineers from code writers to system architects. The most valuable skill isn't writing code, it's designing coherent systems.
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Matthew Butterick
People sometimes try to call others’ beliefs into question by pointing out the contingent causal origins of those beliefs. The significance of such ‘Etiological Challenges’ is a topic that has started ...
We help people and organisations imagine, work with, and shape their future. The Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies is an independent, non-profit think tank established in 1969. By building the capabilities necessary to address potential futures we help create a society fit to meet the challenges and grasp the opportunities we face.
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
This paper explores Stafford Beer’s lesser-known journeys and collaborations in Latin America beyond the well-known Chilean project Cybersyn. It trac
Serial task switching, or rapidly shifting attention between tasks, is a natural user behavior that lowers productivity and increases stress and the chance of errors.
By attributing experiences and emotions to software systems, we pave the way for them to be perceived as having rights, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
My goal in this paper is to bring about a cultural shift in how we make sense of our day to day interactions with one another, whether in the family, the organization, the community, or any of the other social systems of our lives. I draw a distinction between how our interactions are normally experienced and how they are viewed through a human systems framework. Using this framework, I demonstrate how, without awareness or choice, we regularly fall into scenarios that are unsatisfying, unproductive, and often destructive of our relationships and our systems.
This framework also enables us⸺with awareness and choice along with determination and strategic thinking⸺to create satisfying, creative, and productive relationships in all the systems of our lives.
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Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1968 and 2002.
Notes from seven Gregory Bateson conferences exploring systems theory and ecological aesthetics.
Children’s books and learning fables are aimed at children, young adults, and educators to introduce concepts of systems thinking in a fun way through storytelling and fieldbooks with concrete strategies.
Purpose – The paper sets out to apply the concepts of cybernetics and the control of probabilistic systems to the issue of performance measurement within organizations. Design/methodology/approach – Conventional approaches to Performance Measurement have been based on a mechanistic “target‐plan‐variance” model that was introduced into mainstream management practice in the 1950s. It has been subject to criticism from within both the academic and practitioners community over the last 50 years but ...
Rewilding your attention. To find truly interesting ideas, step… | by Clive Thompson | UX Collective
Defining terms for design tokens.
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I had a wonderful job, until I didn’t. This is about what happened—and what is happening.
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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