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Notes on Protocol Labs
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been researching private, for-profit organizations that have successfully and intentionally pioneered advances in…
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Notes on Xerox PARC
“Xerox could have owned the entire computer industry, could have been the IBM of the nineties, could have been the Microsoft of the nineties." - Steve…
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Notes on Bell Labs
I write this newsletter because of my conviction that we need a well-developed science of systems — systems science.
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February 2025

Reflections on Science and Complexity
Warren Weaver's Science and Complexity is one of my favorite papers that I've read during my time in Binghamton's Systems Science program.
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Transcending the von Neumann Architecture?
John von Neumann's Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata (1966), based on lectures presented in 1949, represents a fascinating glimpse into the mindset of…
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On Agents and Architectures
Recent conversations have challenged my thinking about the study of complex adaptive systems
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Notes on Von Foerster's Notes
What's really real?
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January 2025

Reflections on The Role of Models in Science
The Role of Models in Science (1945) by Arturo Rosenblueth and Norbert Wiener takes a wonderfully logical and systematic approach to reasoning about the…
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Cryptoeconomics in the Second Era of Trump
The second era of Trumpism is upon us, and a few people have asked me about what this might mean for crypto.
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(What I remember from) Xerox PARC
As a child my Father would bring me along...
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Early Adopters?
I was in a meeting this week where Lynn Rasmussen casually stated that we systems scientists and general systems theorists are “early adopters.”
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