abstractions
Clustering information
Something’s been noodling in the back of my mind since my mass-effort to provide some kind of supporting information for my book (700…
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social fractals
Trustlessness
Originally published on Medium.
information literacy
Approaching the news leveraging information literacy
Originally published on Medium.
social fractals
Information is being cut off
What Trump and DOGE is doing to our past, present, and future information I believe that nature has incontrovertibly told us that diversity survives, and monocultures fail. Same with scientific method: diverse thinking and approaches gets us to closer to quality truth; and slapdash, singular, and biased science gets us
social fractals
This is a story* of how people lost ownership of their data to corporations
*That makes sense from an information architecture and cognitive behavior point of view, and triangulated against what I saw first hand. Originally published on Medium.
social fractals
Simply complex
Simplicity is only a way into a problem set. It’s like a broken clock: perfection in a timey context. Originally published on Medium.
abstractions
The funky variability of meaning as a lesson in taxonomy
Taxonomy discussions might be boring according to some perspectives, but they are periodically necessary. Originally published on Medium.
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Allowing data to breathe: the impermanence of governance
There is a balance to be found in data governance.
social fractals
Nominalism as a change point for climate?
Originally published on Medium.
social fractals
Thought experiment with information architecture #1
How did we get here? Hiring with a preference for “looking right” rather than trying to have real conversations around skills and ethos? Originally published on Medium.
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Understanding system connectome
The way I’ve explained systems thinking was intended to help ground in a reasonably universal, physical medium that could be explored…
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Systems are elastic
How systems rebalance is through and because of elasticity, and that elasticity is most prevalent in the connectome.