Robin Berjon's pieces over the last year have me looking into network governance designs.... but he links largely to academic papers, which quickly MEGO. What am I looking for???? (more)

Cedric Chin: Dancing Landscapes in Business. I had a conversation with Dr. Rand Spiro. Spiro is the primary researcher behind Cognitive Flexibility Theory. (more)

Management cybernetics is concerned with the application of cybernetics to management and organizations. "Management cybernetics" was first introduced by Stafford Beer in the late 1950s and introduces the various mechanisms of self-regulation applied by and to organizational settings, as seen through a cybernetics perspective. Beer developed the theory through a combination of practical applications and a series of influential books. The practical applications involved steel production, publishing and operations research in a large variety of different industries. (more)

Robin Berjon: The Public Interest Internet. Transnational Digital Public Infrastructure, Tech Governance, and Industrial Policy (more)

Robin Berjon on ActivityPub Over ATProto. With relatively little work, we could run ActivityPub atop an AT Protocol PDS. (more)

Robin Berjon: Web Tiles. Trust has been the defining constraint on the Web's evolution towards more powerful, more applicative capabilities (more)

Robin Berjon: You're Gonna Need A Bigger Browser. If we're agreed that the Web is for user agency, then in order to figure out where the Web goes next we should probably spend some time looking at user agents a.k.a. web browsers. (more)

Robin Berjon: Building The Next Web. The Ship of Theseus thought experiment which has been keeping philosophers employed for centuries: if every component of the ship were replaced one by one over time, is the resulting ship the same as the initial one? (more)

Robin Berjon: Fixing Search. We Don't Have To Put Up With Broken Search. This week and next, all of tech policy is dizzily watching Google be put on trial by the US government for monopolisation of search. (anti-trust) (more)

Robin Berjon: Decent Imaginaries. Many of us, across the online, can feel the era burn and rot away. But this twilight of the gods tells us nothing of what renewal ought to look like when morning comes. And so the question: what now? (more)

Author of Deschooling Society, Tools For Conviviality (more)

aka "HTML over-the-wire". Hotwire is an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. This makes for fast first-load pages, keeps template rendering on the server, and allows for a simpler, more productive development experience in any programming language, without sacrificing any of the speed or responsiveness associated with a traditional single-page application. Based on Turbo, TurboLinks, Stimulus. https://hotwired.dev/ (see BaseCamp, RubyOnRails) (more)

Like Fiat Money but for info. News that is more about telling you what to think vs what the facts are. Not quite the same as Fake News: Narrative dominates and Truth with a capital T is nowhere to be found. 2017-01-04-HuntFiatMoneyFiatNews

The mental practice of acknowledging the uncertainty/risk of every belief or decision or action. (more)

Tools for Conviviality is a 1973 book by Ivan Illich about the proper use of technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tools_for_Conviviality (more)

Some notes on various tools I've used for various kinds of writing over the years... (more)

Multi-level (or multilevel) governance is a term used to describe the way power is spread vertically between levels of government and horizontally across multiple quasi-government and non-governmental organizations and actors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_governance (more)

Arthur Koestler CBE (UK: /ˈkɜːstlər/, US: /ˈkɛst-/; German: [ˈkœstlɐ]; Hungarian: Kösztler Artúr; 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was an Austro-Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest, and apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. In 1931, Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany, but he resigned in 1938 after becoming disillusioned with Stalinism. Having moved to Britain in 1940, he published his novel Darkness at Noon, an anti-totalitarian work that gained him international fame. Over the next 43 years, Koestler espoused many political causes and wrote novels, memoirs, biographies, and numerous essays. In 1949, Koestler began secretly working with a British Cold War anti-communist propaganda department known as the Information Research Department (IRD), which would republish and distribute many of his works, and also fund his activities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Koestler

*Holacracy is a social technology or system of organizational governance (Organization Model) in which authority and decision-making are distributed throughout a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested in a management hierarchy. The Holacracy system was incubated at Ternary Software, an Exton, Pennsylvania, company that was noted for experimenting with more democratic forms of organizational governance.[3] Ternary founder Brian Robertson distilled the best practices into an organizational system that became known as Holacracy in 2007.[4] Robertson later developed the HolacracyConstitution in 2010, which lays out the core principles and practices of the system, and has supported companies in adopting it. In June of 2015, Robertson released a book, Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World, that details and explains the practices of Holacracy. (more)

Recognition that the Internet allows for a larger portion of Social Organization (not just the Network Economy) to be based on Networks of small groups and individuals where large Command And Control organizations were previously necessary. (more)