Pitch: Designing Disruptive Institutions for a Flourishing Future

As societal challenges grow in complexity, our existing institutions—rigid, hierarchical, and often outdated—struggle to keep pace. To address these shortcomings, IAL can spearhead the creation of new "disruptive" institutions through a meticulously crafted design process that emphasizes innovation, adaptability, and inclusivity.

Better People Than Scott Aaronson?

Reposting a letter sent to one of my Internet Heroes, whom I occasionally correspond with. He is my Hero not because of his brilliant, thoughtful blog on quantum computing (though I do enjoy that), but his deep humility and public vulnerability. Dear Scott, who are undoubtedly better people than I am For the record, no,... Continue Reading →

PipeBook: UX Design Brief

A key design goal of PipeBook is to break away from the single-browser-window user experience of traditional data notebooks, to take full advantage of the large screens on today's laptops and desktops. The PipeBook Multi-Window User Experience (Live prototype, annotated) Windows In particular, a single PipeBook "document" consists of: The Pipe window, which can toggle... Continue Reading →

PipeBook.yml: Reimagining Notebooks as Resilient Data Pipelines

See Also The Data Config by Benn Stancil (Medium)https://github.com/TheSwanFactory/pipebook (App)PipeBook: UX Design Brief (Blog)https://github.com/TheSwanFactory/fridaay (Framework)Data on Rails: Solving the Data App Imperative (YouTube) Overview The modern data notebook has its roots in academic tools for mathematical research. Because of that, notebooks are fantastic for open-ended exploration, but an awkward match for production data pipelines. In... Continue Reading →

Story: Molly’s Life Thesis

Molly had been sorely tempted to play it safe. Tell the Elders a story that would inspire them to keep her there. Play on their sympathy. Misrepresent what she was capable of. She tried to make herself fit in. She really tried. But she just couldn't do it.

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