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GM. Read Bateson on evolutionary flexibility and non-human communication and Hammond on mid 20th century software.
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GM. Read Bateson on the crossover between cybernetics and Alcoholics Anonymous and Richard Hammond's tour of historical computing hardware. Plus: 4th quarter of MIA-BOS.
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GM. Read some more of Bateson's Steps to an Ecology of Mind—this AM concerning distortions in meta-communicative feedback and understanding.
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GM. Read about simple, meta communicative and meta linguistic comms and play in Steps to an Ecology of Mind.
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GM. Gentle walk around the park with the woofs to start the day.
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GM. Dog walk plus coffee to kick off.
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GM. Fun start: Gregory Bateson's Steps to an Ecology of Mind.
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GM. Read about easy cases in The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering.
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GM. Read a little about probabilistic reasoning in The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering.
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GM. Read about lumping in The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering.
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GM. Begun with the end of The Essence of Software.
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Reading the “extrapolations and digressions” session of The Essence of Software reaffirmed that I’m not often in the “books should be essays should be threads should be tweets” camp. Analogous to vitamin C capsule versus an orange; the damn orange is much more fun.
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GM. Read about dimensional analysis in Art of Insight in Science and Engineering and about concepts in the home stretch of The Essence of Software.
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GN. @kpats kicking off the @yak governances studies S2 sequence with a run at the concept of rules that builds off the OG gov studies primer. https://yakcollective.substack.com/p/rules https://www.yakcollective.org/projects/yak-online-governance-primer.html
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GM. Begun with Tchaikovsky's Children of Memory.
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GM. Begun with a chapter from The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering, and a chapter on concept purposes from The Essence of Software.
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GM. Began it with The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering.
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GM. Began The Essence of Software by Daniel Jackson and listened to more of the Acquired three-parter on Berkshire Hathaway.
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Whitehead: “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.”
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GM. Read more about locks and semaphores in concurrency. Plus, happy to get the @yak gov studies season 2 sequence kicked off. https://yakcollective.substack.com/p/yak-governance-studies-sequence-intro
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