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Quadrants of social and physical environments, longform

Ang Madsen

Ang Madsen

20 Nov 2025 — 3 min read
Quadrants of social and physical environments, longform

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Information is complex. You already know that. I'm here to tell you, as someone who freaking loves information, that it's probably even more complex than you currently think. We have a tendency right now, on a social level, to makes things simplified (often binary), and try

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I spent weeks, probably hundreds of hours, researching names, trying to find different patterns and different taxonomies before finding W3C and Wikipedia examples like Akan names, Indian names, and African-American names.

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