urn:uuid:e341ca62-0387-4cea-b69a-cdabc7656871 2025-03-06T12:47:54Z Intertwingler Copyright © 2006-2021 Dorian Taylor urn:uuid:b75b71ed-408f-425a-907c-a6a0c55993d9 2022-05-31T15:10:50Z 2020-11-26T17:38:20Z Dorian Taylor https://doriantaylor.com/

Here is the article in which I announce that I am grudgingly getting on the newsletter bandwagon. I am annoyed that I have to do this, but it’s like arguing with the tides.

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An event I participated in, a book I read, and an event in the news came together for a meditation on ethics in artificial intelligence, software, and systematization in general.

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In which I discuss a rationale for, and introduce my work on, “permeable” information systems.

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Facts and figures will never beat stories on persuasiveness. Bullshit will always be cheaper than reality. That said… (⚠ These claims are disputed.)

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In which our protagonist discovers live-streaming everyday activities.

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The orange menace has finally been silenced, and it is actually uncanny just how …normal… everything feels.

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This week I am thinking about situated-ness, the relationships we make with others, and our expectations. This newsletter was originally twice as long but I mercifully chopped it in half; I suspect waiting two weeks might have been a mistake.

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No, this is not a signal of impending monetization of this newsletter; rather I want to talk about commerce around content in general.

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In which I bloviate about some more about the Cloud, compare AI and cryptocurrency to cigarettes, and flirt with the idea of getting a nine-to-five.

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Toys for thinking (and arguing), NFT LOL, and Product™

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Considering the conditions under which it's actually cheaper (easier, quicker, etc.) to pitch client projects than it is to apply for jobs.

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Ways in which mythologies can have a real impact, and a working mythology for intelligence.

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All the hot takes have been hotly taken, so this is a meditation about some stuff I've been working on. And I have a new phrase for you: Opportunistic Generativity.

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In which I tell you what the heck I've been up to for the last six—well, at least the last three—months.

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Model the world you want to live in.

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…we have a certain partially evolved state of a structure. This state is described by the wholeness: the system of centers, and their relative nesting and degrees of life.

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You know, I had been thinking I might be due for a clip show. With the recent spike in subscribers, let's have a recap to see what you've been missing.

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Not so much a hot take, as a catalyzing event for disgorging a long-chewed rumination about what happens when Twitter irrevocably starts to suck.

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This is a case study of how I solved a business-slash-UX problem that had been nagging at me for years, by ultimately rolling up my sleeves and writing the code myself.

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A conceptual framework I coined last year shows up again, and apparently I am a YouTuber now. Also: new newsletter.

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This issue is work-centric, but I'll be back to bloviating soon enough. I am really excited about The Nature of Software though, and a couple other items.

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An update on what I've been up to this summer, plus an essay on the public's understanding of digital technology.

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In which I consider some work that I did and what it would be worth in different contexts, as well as why I did it.

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Or: Who Moved My Cheese? Twitter Edition

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In which our intrepid protagonist really steps in it.

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Meditating on what it would take to design information systems that gave third parties only the information they needed to operate.

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Big update of many threads coming together: my upcoming Information Architecture Conference talk, a new chapter of The Nature of Software, and what's been eating my brain for the last several weeks.

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Preliminary report from IA Conference 2023, Chapter 7 of The Nature of Software coming soon, and Some Personal News™.

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As Summer of Protocols draws to a close, it's time to think about outcomes.

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Now that the Summer of Protocols is in the rear-view mirror, it's time to tee up the rest of the year.

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Last Week in Intertwingler.

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Like I said, a rapid-fire strafing of ideas and occurrences.

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In which I decamp from Substack to Buttondown, and announce a new format for the newsletter.

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My first update since indefinitely suspending my activities on Substack. Nice to be back in the saddle.

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A friend ambushes me with a paper that causes me to adjust my mental dictionary around what certain business-critical words mean.

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Further elucidation of my plan to run a “cozy private alpha” of my organizational cartography kit, the essay that got me calling it that, and a final installment from last year's Summer of Protocols.

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A survey of one small aspect of the current (geo)political situation, and what I'm doing about it.