The aporetic turn refers to an authentic and legitimate domain of transition where we know what we don’t know. We will typically also not know what to do and need to understand that suspension of action is valid. Here we need to map the context and start to build evidence to support moving out of this state. It very much brings Cynefin dynamics front and centre as there are a number of ways (see diagram) that this state can be exited.
Linguistic aporia - The Cynefin Co
My post of the day before yesterday expressed concern about the general dumbing down of discourse and I explicitly linked the desire for simple recipes and undemanding explanations in the sphere of management to the growth of unthinking populism in the political sphere. I ended it with three simple things to do if you don’t […]
Don't Accomplish Everything
P50 goals, the shift to exploration, & managing in spite of volatility
Aporia
The use of "aporia" in the context of Cynefin is influenced by Derrida's “possible-impossible aporias” – aporia is a Greek word meaning impasse, so indirectly puzzle or unanswerable uncertainty, but it has come to refer to a paradox. Derrida described paradoxes that affect issues like giving, hospitality, forgiving and mourning. He argues that according to their internal logic, notions like these are only made possible through their impossibility. - Jacques Derrida (1930—2004)
ATProto explained for a slightly "technical" audience - Foxes
The Return of the Cutting-Off Way
Structural changes are driving us towards a more chaotic world, defined by "neither peace nor war, but conflict."
Liminality
The word liminal comes from the Latin root limen, which means “threshold.” In anthropology, liminality is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete. (Wikipedia). What Turner described as betwixt and between.
Atproto Is the Context Window You Own - The Tropopause
I don't think it's a coincidence that atproto is taking off at the same time AI is. Well, okay, it kind of is a coincidence. I don't think anybody planned these...
Relocating Rigor - The Phoenix Architecture
The Discipline That Looks Like Recklessness
Atproto Ethos - AT Protocol
A deep dive into the philosophical and aesthetic principles underlying the design of AT Protocol.
Cynefin: weaving sense-making into the fabric of our world
As part of its landmark Cynefin® at 21 celebrations, Cognitive Edge (now The Cynefin® Company) published Cynefin®: weaving sense-making into the fabric of our world. Purchase the book on our website.
Tend the System. Know the System.
They didn't wander. That's the first thing to understand. The popular image of the hunter-gatherer is someone moving through an indifferent landscape, taking what they find. It's not wrong about the movement. It's wrong about the indifference — theirs and the land's. What the archaeological and ecological record increasingly shows is
Stigmergy
Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination, through the environment, between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the environment by an individual action stimulates the performance of a succeeding action by the same or different agent. Agents that respond to traces in the environment receive positive fitness benefits, reinforcing the likelihood of these behaviors becoming fixed within a population over time.
Living in the inflection point
I'm scared, I'm excited, and I'm exhausted by the pace of change. All of those things can be true at the same time. This blog post is a (hopefully) grounded take on living through AI's inflection point, why the backlash is valid, and why human connection matters more now than ever.
Atproto Amsterdam Lookbackforward
Event report and future ideas for Atproto community in the Netherlands, written up by @burrito.space
Movement mapping on ATproto
A proposal for building a movement mapping tool on the AT protocol.
Knowing When to Stop: The Art of Making a Loop Converge | Andreessen Horowitz
The systems that matter will not be the ones that can keep going. They all can.
