Field Notes: Designing Entropic Systems
More on the exploration of what designing with uncertainty and entropy might mean. The Observability Dashboard, The Collective Foundation Model, The Entropic Fund
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Prompted by a few other blogs I thought I'd outline "my stack". I've done this a couple of times before but this time feels slightly different.
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Let’s end single use projects
So much insight, so much knowledge, lost or locked up in organisations and institutions. Evaluations that are never shared. Projects that…
No one wants to bet the under
In sports betting there is something called over/under, whereby you bet on a number. Betting the under is something that feels boring even though it's more likely. We do the same when it comes to tech.
People as Code
People as Code imagines a world built like open source, modular, participatory, and transparent, where people help write policy, foundations build platforms, and data becomes a shared resource.