Ivan Labra is Research Faculty at Naval Post Graduate School with interests in complexity, generative systems, and lots of other stuff. Read more...
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Conversation about open source, complexity, km and some work
The following is an imperfect transcript of a conversation I had in Oct with Matt Kovalick about some of the work I have been doing over the last couple years. Were both fans of Charlie Rose and there is a video which I hope to get around to posting. This was fun, though I would like to have deeper conversations that explore some of the themes we touched on.
Matt 01:07:08:15 01:07:40:03
Gleeson on Modalities
Why resilience is a term worth preserving
Vinay Gupta, creator of the hexayurt, writes over at over at one of his sites a criticism of resilience:
The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution » why it’s not resilience.
Presenting this attack on the term resilience is certainly controversial and ignites a good and much needed debate. But we can't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
To the Misery of Spring
Sitting in the first spring sun, the thawing of a long winter.
Magnified by the out opening windows of the attic, the sun is warm today.
The first true warmth of the year.
Every indicator of spring, as if drawn out of a studio at Disney, is there, sickening in its conceit of skepticism or irony.
It is a day made for earnest pleasure, at odds with my very character.
I ought be riding my bike, light summer cap, shorts and sunglasses.
Is software like poetry or like law or both?
One of the fascinating things about the software and its related professions is the kind of conceptual clustering that happens. I have argued that software, the profession of it, is the art of codifying innovations. Brooks famously wrote in the Mythical Man Month:
