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…we have a certain partially evolved state of a structure. This state is described by the wholeness: the system of centers, and their relative nesting…
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Model the world you want to live in.
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An update on what I've been up to this summer, plus an essay on the public's understanding of digital technology.
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Facts and figures will never beat stories on persuasiveness. Bullshit will always be cheaper than reality. That said… (⚠ These claims are disputed.)
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This is a case study of how I solved a business-slash-UX problem that had been nagging at me for years, by ultimately rolling up my sleeves and writing…
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Or: Who Moved My Cheese? Twitter Edition
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Big update of many threads coming together: my upcoming Information Architecture Conference talk, a new chapter of The Nature of Software, and what's…
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Meditating on what it would take to design information systems that gave third parties only the information they needed to operate.
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A conceptual framework I coined last year shows up again, and apparently I am a YouTuber now. Also: a new, limited-run, subscriber-only newsletter: The…
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In which I discuss a rationale for, and introduce my work on, “permeable” information systems.
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This issue is work-centric, but I'll be back to bloviating soon enough. I am really excited about The Nature of Software though, and a couple other…
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In which our intrepid protagonist really steps in it.
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