Transforming Social Networks into Sensemaking Networks: Social media is a vital information source for researchers, but knowledge is buried in noisy feeds and fragmented across platforms. Cosmik builds tools to unlock and amplify this knowledge, powered by semantics, AI, and human collective intelligence. https://www.cosmik.network/ (more)

Co-ops other than food. Generated by ChatGPT after (2025-09-14) Phyle vignettes. (Second half of page is about liability/risk management.) (more)

Vignettes (design fiction) about phyles, generated by ChatGPT after (2025-08-15) NotebookLM on a NetworkEnlightenment. (more)

group of folks trying to grow a scene around sense-making: Ronen Tamari, Gabriel Chartier, kristen pavle, etc. (more)

John Boyd presentation (more)

the global context for prompt engineering that all the main systems let you set (more)

Asking Questions is one of the key Thinking Tools - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question (more)

One Question to Rule Them All. What Would You Say You Do Here? (more)

Warren Ellis: The Manfred Macx Media Diet. I re-read Charlie Stross’ ACCELERANDO at least once a year. More often, I’ll return to just the first three chapters once every few months. (more)

produced or determined by society or social forces (more)

Ernest André Gellner FRAI (9 December 1925 – 5 November 1995) was a French-born British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist described by The Daily Telegraph, when he died, as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals, and by The Independent as a "one-man crusader for critical rationalism". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Gellner (more)

Neo-feudalism or new feudalism is a theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy, and public life, reminiscent of those which were present in many feudal societies. Such aspects include, but are not limited to: Unequal rights and legal protections for common people and for nobility,[1] dominance of societies by a small and powerful elite, a lack of social mobility, and relations of lordship and serfdom between the elite and the people, where the former are rich and the latter poor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-feudalism

John Robb notes Parag Khanna's prediction of Neo-FeudalIsm. What did diplomacy look like in the Middle Ages? First, it was characterized by complex multi-level relations: the Pope and his emissaries, Germanic duchies and vassal territories, Italian City State-s like Milan and Venice, and great universities from Oxford to Bologna. Second, it was informal. For most of history, the chief criteria for diplomatic inclusion have been status and prestige, not legal sovereignty—which only came into being in the 17th century. (more)

Parag Khanna thinks the City State will be the key player of the century. Already, more than half the world lives in cities (Urbanization), and the percentage is growing rapidly. But just 100 cities account for 30 percent of the world's economy, and almost all its Innovation. (more)

In John Boyd’s terminology, building a snowmobile is crafting a novel solution to a problem that synthesizes various fully optimized but conceptually unrelated elements into a cohesive whole (motorcycle handlebars + tank treads + skis + boat outboard motor = a vehicle built to traverse snow). In this case, we need a novel solution that rapidly develops space. (more)

Observation Orientation Decision Action (Observation, Orientation (model?), Decision/Decision Making, Action) (more)

old fighter pilot responsible for OODA model (more)

A ritual "is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects, performed in a sequestered place, and performed according to set sequence".[1] Rituals may be prescribed by the traditions of a community, including a religious community. Rituals are characterized but not defined by formalism, traditionalism, invariance, rule-governance, sacral symbolism, and performance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual (more)

book (Design Fiction?) by Adrian Hon ASIN:B00EX8QRPM http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ (more)

novel by Andy Kessler ISBN:098271632X (more)