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What I Learned Building Whole Earth AI - by Kasey Klimes

A project-based learning tool built on LLMs

Bateson's Cosmos Graphics - Enacting Ecological Aesthetics

Whole Earth Index | CoEvolution Quarterly, Summer 1976

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.

Steps Around a Theory of Action: Notes on Seven Bateson Conferences Cosmos - Enacting Ecological Aesthetics Steps Around a Theory of Action: Notes on Seven Bateson Conferences Cosmos Steps Around a Theory of Action: Seven Bateson Conferences

Notes from seven Gregory Bateson conferences exploring systems theory and ecological aesthetics.

When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History | Quanta Magazine

Children Archives - System Dynamics Society

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.

(PDF) Viability as a basis for performance measurement

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 ...

CaptureDisruption.pdf

The Good Internet - Sacha Judd

Rewilding your attention. To find truly interesting ideas, step… | by Clive Thompson | UX Collective

Metalanguage - Wikipedia

The work at hand

Calm Down—Your Phone Isn’t Listening to Your Conversations. It’s Just Tracking Everything You Type, Every App You Use, Every Website You Visit, and Everywhere You Go in the Physical World

Everything is In-Between

Theory

Design as Thought: AI and the Future of Design

2025 Architecture Principles

designtokens.fyi

Defining terms for design tokens.

EDI Reference - The ultimate resource for beginners and pros

Documentation for every Transaction Set, Segment, and Element for every X12 release with fast full-text search. Master EDI in no time with friendly documentation built for humans.

Moving on from 18F. — Ethan Marcotte

I had a wonderful job, until I didn’t. This is about what happened—and what is happening.

How cybernetics connects computing, counterculture, and design

Implications of Second-Order Cybernetics and Autopoiesis on Systems-of-Systems Engineering

Tech continues to be political | Miriam Eric Suzanne

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.

Take small steps | A Working Library

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...

About - Transformative Leadership Online M.A.

Develop new ways of being, knowing, relating, and doing in our online master’s in leadership for changemakers and groundbreakers.

Matt’s Vancouver Island Traverse, 2020 - DIY Packraft

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

Stewart Brand and the biotech trip — Philosophy for Life

Improving western culture's ecstatic literacy. Click to read Ecstatic Integration, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Perceptual control theory

Method of levels

Planck's principle - Wikipedia

Wayback Machine

Henry Mintzberg from McGill University defined strategy as a pattern in a stream of decisions to contrast with a view of strategy as planning

Share files to nearby devices

The 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, "The Real World of Technology" | CBC Radio

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...

CEEOL - Article Detail

Process ontology - Wikipedia

Structural coupling – Fractal Enterprise Model

Sympoiesis - Toolshed

A concept for making together with others, to better express complex multi-species relations, elaborated by Donna Haraway and others

Toolshed

Toolshed gathers and shares tools for a livable future. A project of Sayler/Morris and collaborators, based at The Basilica in Hudson, NY.

Sympoietic thinking and Earth System Law: The Earth, its subjects and the law - ScienceDirect

Facing the Anthropocene: Comparative Education as Sympoiesis | Comparative Education Review: Vol 65, No 4

ATProto Explained – Lexicons and video – The Fediverse Report

A deep dive into how Lexicons work on ATProto, and how it impacts the different ways people are building video apps on the network.

Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War 9780822389125 - DOKUMEN.PUB

Firehose of falsehood

Observability for Distributed Services

Honeycomb is the only observability platform you need. Get all your data in one unified platform with limitless possibilities.

Gregory Bateson and the Counter-Culture

Design Patterns - Wikipedia

State pattern - Wikipedia

Object (computer science) - Wikipedia

No GPT-5 in 2025 and No AGI — Ever | by Jeffrey Anthony | Jan, 2025 | Medium

Double empathy problem

Universal design

Design's secret partner in research: Cybernetic practices for design research pedagogy

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...

Ready-ing

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 paper…

Abduction through entanglement

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 […]

Linearity vs. Circularity? On Some Common Misconceptions on the Differences in the Research Process in Qualitative and Quantitative Research

Our words

“Beautiful one, give us our need. We give you our words.”

The Homo Economicus as a Prototype of a Psychopath? A Conceptual Analysis and Implications for Business Research and Teaching | Journal of Business Ethics

Since the beginning of business research and teaching, the basic assumptions of the discipline have been intensely debated. One of these basic assumptions

Last Week in Bluesky – 2025jan.a – The Fediverse Report

Ecology of mind: UVA symposium aims to revive the interdisciplinary thinking of Gregory Bateson

“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...

Cybernetics of Cybernetics by Margaret Mead

Ekistics

Why Gregory Bateson Matters - by Ted Gioia

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.

The ishraqi institute

About the ishraqi institute

Content and Metacontent: A key distinction for teaching for long-term learning

Network of Supermarket Chains – FlowingData

FlowingData

The Role of Process Ontology in Cybernetics – Skansi (2021) | Systems Community of Inquiry

English pdf 322 Kb

The Role of Process Ontology in Cybernetics

Warren Brodey Anthology 2024.pdf

Bateson Project

The Neurology of Business: Implementing the Viable System Model | SpringerLink

This book describes the neurology of a business as a new dimension of organization and presents the Viable System Model (VSM).

Hopper

Rewilding Software Engineering

A good enough pathway to reasonable decisions.

Simon Wardley

Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens

An in-depth course on design tokens: concepts, Figma Variables, code, processes, best practices, and more.

Systems explained by Humberto Maturana

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.

We Are Open Cooperative

👋 We’re a not-for-profit worker co-op of strategists, innovators, and facilitators. We design and deliver strategies and tactics to untangle your organisational spaghetti by working hand-in-hand with you and your team, helping everyone learn where to intervene in complex systems. We’ve partnered with plenty of companies, charities, and non-profits that you (and perhaps more importantly, your boss) have heard of. Here’s a few of them:

The AI We Deserve - Boston Review

Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?

Perverse incentive

Partnerism

Anatomy of an AI System

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)

Calculating Empires

Kate Crawford

Chronological dating - Wikipedia

Radiocarbon dating - Wikipedia

Undeciable questions we must decide. - YouTube

BIOLOGY OF LOVE By Humberto Maturana Romesin and Gerda Verden-Zoller (1996) - TOWARDS LIFE-KNOWLEDGE

Stovepipe (organisation)

Coming home | A Working Library

Into the gap.

Consilience - Wikipedia

Consilience (book) - Wikipedia

onian Enchantment

Life is a miracle : an essay against modern superstition : Berry, Wendell, 1934- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Includes bibliographical references

counterpointpress.com/books/life-is-a-miracle/

Open science: hope is other people

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...

The long-shot plan to save TikTok from a US ban

Why the former owner of the LA Dodgers, Frank McCourt, thinks he’s the right person to rescue TikTok.

Cynefin Framework

Brian Eno is MORE DARK THAN SHARK

ELIZA effect - Wikipedia

Joseph Weizenbaum - Wikipedia

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]

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con

How to make better software with systems-thinking

Cold reading - Wikipedia

Semiotics - Wikipedia

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