Quadrants of social and physical environments, longform

Information technology design ethics

Once upon a time, I looked for missing books at my college library. I had one of the best finding rates of anyone that had that position before me, and for years after (footnote). The secret to my success was in looking for each book as though it were a

Just care

We won't get a chance to fix systems if we can't touch them.

Determinism and shifting taxonomy

As more companies move to "determined algorithms", we need to talk about deterministic software. It's been around. We have some people enamored with it, some people angry at it, and lots of tangled meanings. That means that we all have to be careful about packing too

Variability and infrastructure

Information architecture is not set in stone. Done well, it will live longer than the raw data, which is moving and accumulating through time at the speed of time and the amassing of a quantity of information driven by the quantity of people. But as the data shifts, as our