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Synthesis
A new kind of curriculum
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May 3
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Imagination Is Not Creativity
Christopher Alexander died a week ago today. He was one of my last heroes. I won’t name the others. He had a unique impact on me in the way his work not…
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Mar 24
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Constraints: Without and Within
A very useful way of characterizing the behavior of a system is in terms of its constraints. This yields an entire spectrum of “looseness” or…
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Mar 4
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The Townspeople and the Boy Who Cried Wolf
In the classic telling of Aesop’s Boy Who Cried Wolf, a boy who is bored while tending sheep stirs up excitement for himself by making up a story about…
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Feb 25
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Stone Walls, Randomness, and Order
This Spring will have me trying my hand at some stonework. I’ve been reading up, but of course nothing will instill real lessons like giving it a shot…
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Feb 23
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The Danger of Conspiracies
To label someone a ‘conspiracy theorist’ has come to mean they are, essentially, a tinfoil hat wearing lunatic. One of the more sophisticated critiques…
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Feb 2
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A Tale of Two Top-Downs: Part II
Coarse-to-fine Processes
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Jan 31
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A Tale of Two Top-Downs: Part I
Blueprint Processes
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Jan 31
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Ethics, Medical Mandates, and Statistics
There is a crucial ethical distinction between incidental harm and death and mandating harm and death. When mandates are issued for interventions that…
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Jan 12
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Bottom-up Solutions, Not Bottom-up Tantrums
Anti-coercion, not anti-coordination
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Dec 27, 2021
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Insanity is Doing the Same Thing and Expecting the Same Result
Randomness, jokes, jabs, and memory
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Dec 19, 2021
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On Liberty, Constraint, and Coercion
A hopefully unnecessary evil
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Dec 13, 2021
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