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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Kate Crawford
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.
#NewMacy Home
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.
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.