This is a small talk for Bridges Summit, 28 August 2024.
References and Recommendations:
Combining, by Nora Bateson. ⬅ this is about seeing the second and third-order effects of what we do. It helps me live in a world that is so far from perfect, and work to make it better without despair. (I don’t plan on referencing it in the talk but it’s still my top recommendation!)
A Radical Culture of Culture Building, by Beth Anders-Beck
Abeba Birhane: A person is a person through other persons
Arthur Doler has a talk on routine, ritual, and habits. I saw it at KCDC, but it wasn’t recorded. Watch for it at Emerging Tech East next year
Niklas Luhmann notices that people divide into functional classes, each with different value systems. from Jackson’s Critical Systems Thinking
Ritual and its Consequences, four authors.
Alicia Juarrero has a lot of analysis on enabling constraints
Past talks from me:
- Cameratas, invisible college and symmathesy
- Joint activity
- Game design applied to methods of work
My favorite takeaway from the idea garden:
