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Ivo Velitchkov
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Here’s a

#serendipity

model that has now stabilized after some iterations, so it’s time to share it. The write-up is coming soon.

Another example: revolutionaries fighting for democracy, when successful, take power without being elected.

That still qualifies as requisite hypocrisy if they call elections (or some other way to exercise democracy) quickly. If not, it's a hypocrisy of a different type.

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A new essay on Link&Think kicking off a long series on #serendipity

https://www.linkandth.ink/p/serendipity-for-serendipity

Resumed working on a serendipity protocol

Cohesion is about making a whole or working as a whole. It needs connections. One such connection is between a decision and its consequences. Our civilization has evolved smart ways to decouple those making decisions and performing actions from the consequences.

https://www.linkandth.ink/p/freedom-and-responsibility

#RDF is one of those standards that brings both autonomy and cohesion. It does so through standardizing identification, structure and semantics.

https://www.linkandth.ink/p/liberating-cohesion-via-rdf

New essay on Link & Think

Cohesion via Standards and Protocols

https://www.linkandth.ink/p/cohesion-via-standards-and-protocols

[PDF] Decentralised finance, regulation, and systems theory - https://goo.gl/scholar/Wkv2Ys

CABIN is a cohesion spectrum model, distinguishing 5 zones by how cohesion is achieved. Ordered from low to high autonomy, they are:

Coercive, Bureaucratic, Normative, Adaptive, and Interoperable.

Find out more in the latest essay from the Autonomy&Cohesion series.

https://www.linkandth.ink/p/cohesion-spectrum

Here's an attempt to explain the Law of Requisite Variety that is:

a) non-technical

b) with manifestations that are easy to observe every day

c) with a wide variety of examples to demonstrate its ubiquity

https://www.linkandth.ink/p/stimuli-and-responses

An enterprise-wide transformation can be successful if it brings something that works and is useful. But that's not sufficient. It also needs to be used.

Is that sufficient? Not yet. You need to add two factors related to power.

https://www.linkandth.ink/p/4u2p

#transformation

What do meetings, cat photos on social media and talking about the weather have in common?

https://www.linkandth.ink/p/cohesion-forces-and-tools

What do meetings, cat photos on social media and talking about the weather have in common?

https://www.linkandth.ink/p/cohesion-forces-and-tools

"Meme" has stabilized in the last two years. This, of course, doesn't show how memes actually do, as it counts the number of searches, not of transmission.

(the peak is, of course, April 2020)

Do you mean the Zenkit tool by that name?

(I have it here https://www.strategicstructures.com/?p=2591 in the list of PKM tools)

I'm starting an experiment with Substack. Most articles will be re-published on my blog launched in 2010. To orient new readers, wrote a guide to the blog content https://www.strategicstructures.com/?page_id=925