Saved links
A saved link is not an endorsement. It's just a thing I read or thought about reading.
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.
In Mossback, David Pritchett traverses geography, history, and genealogy to explore landscapes and mythologies at the intersection of environmental, indigeno...
Explore a world of tools that transform your Bluesky experience. From sleek clients to smart automation - shape your perfect digital space.
Stafford Beer: The Falcondale Collection. [Data Collection]
Let transformation start with ourselves.
When we view objectivity and subjectivity as opposites rather than complements, we distort the empirical realities of data collection.
We help people to make sense of complex, intractable problems and find ways to act with meaning.
Deep Interlock and Ambiguity sounds like precisely the opposite of something you'd want occurring in software. So we're going to have to unpack it.
Inflection points threaten to upend business assumptions and strategies, making strategic coherence more critical than ever. Leaders must identify real business challenges and avoid incoherence.
Civilization Research Institute
An essay—written and shared over a number of months—that explores building a public, professional identity, firstly to shape how our peers and colleagues think, and act, and secondly to shape our identity and what we might become.
Anti-goals (aka NOKRs) explicitly state what you aren't trying to do. They help set expectations and clarify your strategy. A good exercise for setting anti-goals is to ask, "What might someone reasonably assume might happen because of our work that will likely NOT happen?"
Published in Canadian Journal of Philosophy (Vol. 24, No. sup1, 1994)
William C. Wimsatt
Knowledge Futures mission is to make information useful.
Explore how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries in this large-scale research visualization.
Washington, 21 February 2001 (RFE/RL) -- "Vlast" -- the Russian word for "the powers" -- has had an almost magical impact on discussions about the political system in that country, according to one Moscow analyst. But precisely because of its use, the word itself has also distorted the...
We’ll never be smart enough to create an algorithm with that kind of open-ended generative power, although it’s precisely its evolutionary creativity that brought us intelligence to begin with. For me, the ongoing life force that resists entropy—whatever it is that organizes living systems and makes them capable of complex emergent behaviors—is the most mystical thing. Thinking about it is as close as I get to religious feeling. It’s at the center of everything
A new series from Are.na and Dark Properties.
Product marketing
Product marketing
This is just a sketch and it has issues. I initially wanted to prototype this but the situation at work is such that I have precious little bandwidth for prototyping (so I'm mostly dumping my notes onto this blog). Think of it as a design provocation, and