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How to become an artist: copy other artists.

From Three Horizons, The Patterning of Hope, by Bill Sharpe Horizon 1: The status quo.

How would Rich Hickey decomplect the actor model?

If you're going to decomplect a class into a bunch of component slices, you're going to need a way to tie those slices together.

Process note: One of my lessons-learned from Subconscious was that project management for startups should be done via deadlines and workbacks not via agile methods.

If there’s a coalition, think about the game theory.

They’re mostly self-sufficient, actually...

"Playing to your outs" is a term from poker by way of Magic The Gathering.

In chronological* order: Kinship systems Religion Art Clothing/jewelry Music Gift exchange Language Oral recitation Written language Law Money Bureaucracy Voting Double-entry bookkeeping Facts Scientific method Peer review Printing Markets Corporations Ne…

Driscoll's model of reflection (Driscoll, 1994): What?

Put another way: commodity work breeds commodity software.

From The Language of the System, by Rich Hickey: Now we get to moving things around.

Beer thought that ecosystems are smarter than we are—not in their representational cognitive abilities, but in their performative ability to solve problems that exceed our cognitive ones.

But Beer started from this realization: in a world of exceedingly complex systems, for which any representation can only be provisional, performance is what we need to care about.

How complex systems fail: slowly, then all at once.

The human mind is not adapted to interpreting how social systems behave.

When telling a story, structure by plot, not by order of information.

The elements of story: Situation Conflict Climax Resolution This is the traditional story arc, and it has many incarnations: Hero's journey — Joseph Campbell's Monomyth Once there was a — fairytale structure Three-act story structure Lost and found What i…

Richard Feynman was a polymath, who did pioneering work in the Manhatten Project, quantum physics, parallel computing, and nanotechnology.

What is time?

The three act story structure is a framework used in screenwriting and novels.

We live in a networked world, a world governed by asymmetry, feedback loops, and power laws.

Amazon.com has a product development process they call Working Backwards.

Simple models outperform complex models when data is bad or sparse.

Smaller story arcs can be composed into larger ones, or woven together.