This quest is driven by the belief that the digital, workspace and urban environments can be designed to increase the likelihood of unexpected, beneficial discoveries and encounters, not only by stimulating unusual combinations to happen but also by influencing the behaviours of agents to provoke them and their ability to notice them.| www.linkandth.ink
Containment pervades life, from life's own self-creation to the tools for storage and the tools for thought.| Link & Think
We are given one life, which is insultingly short. Then, the best we can hope for, if we can achieve work-life balance, is to live only half of it, and pay for that with the other half, work.| Link & Think
The current AI might not be the one we wished we had, but that is the path-dependent adjacent-possible that we do have. To make the best of it, we need to balance trust and suspicion.| Link & Think
Manual intersection control, traffic lights and roundabouts can be seen as exemplars of the three main coordination modes: leader, platform, and protocol. But, unlike traffic regulation, where there is a data-supported general agreement that the roundabouts are the most efficient and effective way, that is far from being the case in other situations of coordination and governance.| Link & Think
One Friday in March, as usual in the mornings, I was drinking my coffee in bed and reading my morning paper.| Link & Think
And they are very similar to second-order observations| Link & Think
Decentralization movements design their protocols in direct correspondence to and as a manifestation of their values. That openness has the benefits of transparency, shorter feedback loops, and adaptability. On the other hand, decentralization may become a surrogate of these values and a goal in itself.| Link & Think
When in doubt about explaining and justifying something involving living beings, try zooming out.| Link & Think
This series contains the transcripts of a few conversations I had with Luc Hoebeke in the summer of 2024.| Link & Think
Serendipity is the relationship between a surprise and a beneficial outcome.| Link & Think
Three temporal serendipity patterns| www.linkandth.ink
Notes on systems and technologies. Click to read Link & Think, by Ivo Velitchkov, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.| www.linkandth.ink
Increasing the likelihood of serendipitous events| www.linkandth.ink
