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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.
Notes from seven Gregory Bateson conferences exploring systems theory and ecological aesthetics.
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.
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.
I had a wonderful job, until I didn’t. This is about what happened—and what is happening.
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.
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...
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
Improving western culture's ecstatic literacy. Click to read Ecstatic Integration, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
A concept for making together with others, to better express complex multi-species relations, elaborated by Donna Haraway and others
Toolshed gathers and shares tools for a livable future. A project of Sayler/Morris and collaborators, based at The Basilica in Hudson, NY.
A deep dive into how Lexicons work on ATProto, and how it impacts the different ways people are building video apps on the network.
Since the beginning of business research and teaching, the basic assumptions of the discipline have been intensely debated. One of these basic assumptions
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.
About the ishraqi institute
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This book describes the neurology of a business as a new dimension of organization and presents the Viable System Model (VSM).
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Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?
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)
Kate Crawford
Into the gap.
onian Enchantment
Includes bibliographical references
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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