Epistemic Status: Tentative I’m fairly anti-hierarchical, as things go, but the big challenge to all anti-hierarchical ideologies is “how feasible is this in real life? We don’t s…| Otium
"Systems design" is a branch of study that tries to find universal architectural patterns that are valid across disciplines. You might thin...| apenwarr.ca
Addressing Power through “Flattening” Organisations Steep power gradients are one of the most significant factors that contribute to reducing psychological safety. These steep differentials in perceived power have contributed to many disasters including the Tenerife Airport disaster in 1977, Chernobyl, […]| Psych Safety
A one-person open source project with a governance model, is that ridiculous? In this blog post I want to convince you it isn’t, and it could be key to solving widespread problems in the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) ecosystem.| antonin.delpeuch.eu
Infrastructure as historical object, as political object, as *world*| folklore.mirror.xyz
Psychological Safety, Hierarchies and power This is fantastic, from Richard Bartlett; Hierarchies are not the problem. Richard writes eloquently here to show that hierarchies are not “bad”. Rather, unhelpful or harmful power dynamics are bad. “Focusing on “hierarchy” doesn’t just miss […]| Psych Safety
The Republican and Democratic parties are not the same: power flows differently within them. The two big political news items of this week—the happenings of the Republican National Convention and t…| The Scholar's Stage
A eulogy for the dream that was Nix| www.zombiezen.com
Introduction| liw.fi
We need to reinvent hyperlinks in a cozy idiom for the contemporary dark forest online environment before web2 platforms succeed in their decade long quest to kill them (though they don’t deserve all the blame for hyperlinks being increasingly suboptimal constructs). I trace the origins of this effort to Google’s Amp product which had “faster mobile user experience” as the casus belli for the disproportionately belligerent war on links, which is now starting to look like the Drug War ...| ribbonfarm
This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Lunchtime Leadership| ribbonfarm
This entry is part of a five-part series on “terrible communities”: 1.| lessfoolish.substack.com
Creating things is a delicate endeavour, fraught with peril. People struggle forward through crazy marketplace and environmental complexities just to get from one day to the other. Yet I can't shake off the feeling that we make it harder for ourselves than it should be. I've been trying to work out why. There's a lot to unpack. This post is a start at thinking about it in public.| www.evalapply.org
What if all these weird tech trends actually add up to something? Last time, we explored why various bits of trendy technology are, in my o...| apenwarr.ca
Designing Gonzo-Mathematical Governance Mechanisms for Systems of Irreducible Uncertainty| dirtroads.substack.com
I guess I know something about train wrecks. One night when I was 10 years old, me and my mom were driving home. We came to a train crossin...| apenwarr.ca
Within an organization, there are three kinds of power structures: role power, relationships, and expertise. Understanding these kinds of power — how they’re built; how they’re wielded; ethically and otherwise; what they can and can’t accomplish — is key to understanding organizations at a systemic level and maximizing your effectiveness at work.| jacobian.org
