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
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social fractals
Simply complex
Simplicity is only a way into a problem set. It’s like a broken clock: perfection in a timey context; otherwise, anywhere from a little to…
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. They can easily become fraught…
abstractions
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?
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? So…
abstractions
Systems thinking overview
The way I’ve explained systems thinking was intended to help ground in a reasonably universal, physical medium that could be explored…
abstractions
Systems are elastic
How systems rebalance is through and because of elasticity, and that elasticity is most prevalent in the connectome.
abstractions
Systems expand and contract
Why does the push/pull of systems happen?
abstractions
Systems flow
I’ve mentioned before that the push/pull of information is an indicator that we’re dealing with a system rather than a network, but what…
info structure
Big picture and details
Information architecture looks to simplify the complex, but nothing in what an IA does discounts data. Instead, if you are focusing on IA…
social fractals
It’s not a doom spiral, it’s a system rebalancing itself
Understanding social degradation as a system out of balance.