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At Any Given Moment in a Process
…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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Radical Interoperability is a Political Agenda
Model the world you want to live in.
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Confluence
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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Trajectory
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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Conference
Preliminary report from IA Conference 2023, Chapter 7 of The Nature of Software coming soon, and Some Personal News™.
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So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good Night
In which I decamp from Substack to Buttondown, and announce a new format for the newsletter.
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Inventor's Paradox
Last week in Intertwingler.
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Forget Passwords!
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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Muskus/Domesticus 🐀
Or: Who Moved My Cheese? Twitter Edition
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Pivot
Now that the Summer of Protocols is in the rear-view mirror, it's time to tee up the rest of the year.
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Privacy by Design
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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The Specificity Gradient, and Other Things
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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