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@smallcircles@social.coop · 7 days ago

@dahukanna @woozle

Well said. Esp. when things are HARD, like the wicked problems that ail our world, #ClimateChange for instance. Everyone should contribute their fair share, right? Give just their 2 cents?

#Emergence deals with radical #Simplicity. But simple ain't easy.

Wicked problems require wicked solutions. Numerous tiny #solution increments made all over the place by different people. It requires 'thinking at scale' for prolonged times, and 'doing' on the basis of that. In terms of planning for that 'Bigger Ideas' need time to mature and ripen, and this too involves many people. And is emergent and evolutionary in nature too! This great animation on "Where good ideas come from" calls this the 'Slow Hunch"..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU

#SX's slow hunch took 11 years.

There's another great vid by Rich HIckey, creator of #Clojure, besides "Hammock Driven Development" mentioned in the article, titled "Simple made Easy" given at a #StrangeLoop conference..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4

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@smallcircles@social.coop · 2 days ago

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

In 2025 and with support of @nlnet I was able to continue my efforts, started in 2017, to help forge molecular bonds in our #fediverse petri dish, via my method of "Weaving in public", instrument of Social experience design. See:

https://discuss.coding.social/t/weaving-in-public-connecting-people-and-interests/85

The wicked problem is, when trying to organize for world improving radical change.. You can't be an atom that shouts: "All aboard! Let's form an organism and free us from the dish of #Hypercapitalism". It is not how Nature works. And yet, this is what we try to do, each in our own ways, and the means we are able provide.

To do this requires sustainable #evolution at scale for prolonged periods of time. To deliberately evolve into what we want to become: a better #future.

All our attempts to artificially scale, against forces of Nature, are doomed to fail. Nature emerges naturally, spontaneously, and grows organically.

We face the #Paradox of #Emergence in how we organize ourselves.

Topic of my next blog post..

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Excerpt from my upcoming blog post (shortened to fit)..

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“Invest in your dreams to make them real”. That is the basic hedonic driver that is behind the SX SEE model for Sustainable ecosystem evolution. It is but a simple credo, but one that more people should take to heart in their daily work, hobby, and life. Dream about the possibilities that exist to see the opportunities that are within reach generally leads to better outcomes. Think now, so you can play better. Get on top of your own game. Our modern world, the doomspiral of the news, our technological progress decoupled from societal progress, disencourages us from having dreams and follow where they lead us.

We are dependent on many other people to support us in our aspirations and to get further in life. To provide help in areas where we are lacking.

The paradox prohibits us from conveying our dreams to others well enough, so they follow along and contribute to them. The paradox manifestates itself all across human society, but in particular where solving wicked problems is concerned. Such as tackling global climate change. Especially when there is much urgency to solve big problems, the paradox comes to bite.

This blog post introduces the Paradox of Emergence and muses on how it holds back the FOSS movement from becoming more sustainable. And poses that while “Follow your dreams” is a platitude, it constitutes an #UrgentPlatitude, a SX concept, and we should truly heed those more, take them to heart. — Excerpt from my upcoming blog post (shortened to fit).. -- “Invest in your dreams to make them real”. That is the basic hedonic driver that is behind the SX SEE model for Sustainable ecosystem evolution. It is but a simple credo, but one that more people should take to heart in their daily work, hobby, and life. Dream about the possibilities that exist to see the opportunities that are within reach generally leads to better outcomes. Think now, so you can play better. Get on top of your own game. Our modern world, the doomspiral of the news, our technological progress decoupled from societal progress, disencourages us from having dreams and follow where they lead us. We are dependent on many other people to support us in our aspirations and to get further in life. To provide help in areas where we are lacking. The paradox prohibits us from conveying our dreams to others well enough, so they follow along and contribute to them. The paradox manifestates itself all across human society, but in particular where solving wicked problems is concerned. Such as tackling global climate change. Especially when there is much urgency to solve big problems, the paradox comes to bite. This blog post introduces the Paradox of Emergence and muses on how it holds back the FOSS movement from becoming more sustainable. And poses that while “Follow your dreams” is a platitude, it constitutes an #UrgentPlatitude, a SX concept, and we should truly heed those more, take them to heart.

The diagram shows an exponential 'value creation' graph, with on the X-access the progress of evolution along the solution path. Below the axis the various lifecycle stages of the fediverse service delivery lifecycle are listed: Inception, Ideation, Realization, Delivery, Experience. Rate of value creation & aggregation of the social supply line depends on participation rate.

On the Y-axis is the Potential of the solution design, where value-add of investment in the solution depends on how emergent design leads to desired outcomes. It is not easily perceived as it exists mostly still in emergent space.

Diagram has 3 quadrants. On the bottom left the participation zone is where prolonged Investment is asked, while only little value can be demonstrated in the field. The biggest part above the participation / investment zone is the anticipation zone, where we dream and find possibilities and related opportunities that may have great potential. Expectation mismatch is a risk as the emergent value is stil invisble to most people.

The paradox is solved at an inflection point along the evolution axis of the solution, called appropriately 'the paradox of emergence' point, when actual value is demonstrated by positive societal impact that grows via SX feedback loops. This is the solution zone, the full right side of the diagram, where value creation can grow exponentially and dreams turn to their realization. Now there are sustainability risks to healthy evolution to monitor well. — The diagram shows an exponential 'value creation' graph, with on the X-access the progress of evolution along the solution path. Below the axis the various lifecycle stages of the fediverse service delivery lifecycle are listed: Inception, Ideation, Realization, Delivery, Experience. Rate of value creation & aggregation of the social supply line depends on participation rate. On the Y-axis is the Potential of the solution design, where value-add of investment in the solution depends on how emergent design leads to desired outcomes. It is not easily perceived as it exists mostly still in emergent space. Diagram has 3 quadrants. On the bottom left the participation zone is where prolonged Investment is asked, while only little value can be demonstrated in the field. The biggest part above the participation / investment zone is the anticipation zone, where we dream and find possibilities and related opportunities that may have great potential. Expectation mismatch is a risk as the emergent value is stil invisble to most people. The paradox is solved at an inflection point along the evolution axis of the solution, called appropriately 'the paradox of emergence' point, when actual value is demonstrated by positive societal impact that grows via SX feedback loops. This is the solution zone, the full right side of the diagram, where value creation can grow exponentially and dreams turn to their realization. Now there are sustainability risks to healthy evolution to monitor well.

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@smallcircles@social.coop · 2 days ago

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

If we were atoms drifting among countless others in chaotic #commons of a petri dish.

How do we form tight molecules together, collaborate with other atoms around us? Equivalent to what #FOSS tries to do. We need good chemistry to make that happen. Take shape together, #organize, find #governance.

Laws of Nature. With many other molecules and atoms like us, how do we #unite? Form cohesive bonds. Become something much stronger still. How do we reach atoms remotely in vast petri dish space, eternities away?

Akin to how we try on #fedi too. Form substance. Take more meaningful shape. But how? We're organic matter, and our tech is rock hard.

How do we form a biological #ecosystems within this dish? #Sustainable, able to #survive? How do we become alive, gain collective #awareness, #agency, ability to act as #collectively?

Finally how are we able to thrive? Find #freedom? Organisms liberated from this dish?

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016

This is the Quest of our Time!

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@smallcircles@social.coop replied · 2 days ago

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

In 2025 and with support of @nlnet I was able to continue my efforts, started in 2017, to help forge molecular bonds in our #fediverse petri dish, via my method of "Weaving in public", instrument of Social experience design. See:

https://discuss.coding.social/t/weaving-in-public-connecting-people-and-interests/85

The wicked problem is, when trying to organize for world improving radical change.. You can't be an atom that shouts: "All aboard! Let's form an organism and free us from the dish of #Hypercapitalism". It is not how Nature works. And yet, this is what we try to do, each in our own ways, and the means we are able provide.

To do this requires sustainable #evolution at scale for prolonged periods of time. To deliberately evolve into what we want to become: a better #future.

All our attempts to artificially scale, against forces of Nature, are doomed to fail. Nature emerges naturally, spontaneously, and grows organically.

We face the #Paradox of #Emergence in how we organize ourselves.

Topic of my next blog post..

2 media

Excerpt from my upcoming blog post (shortened to fit)..

--

“Invest in your dreams to make them real”. That is the basic hedonic driver that is behind the SX SEE model for Sustainable ecosystem evolution. It is but a simple credo, but one that more people should take to heart in their daily work, hobby, and life. Dream about the possibilities that exist to see the opportunities that are within reach generally leads to better outcomes. Think now, so you can play better. Get on top of your own game. Our modern world, the doomspiral of the news, our technological progress decoupled from societal progress, disencourages us from having dreams and follow where they lead us.

We are dependent on many other people to support us in our aspirations and to get further in life. To provide help in areas where we are lacking.

The paradox prohibits us from conveying our dreams to others well enough, so they follow along and contribute to them. The paradox manifestates itself all across human society, but in particular where solving wicked problems is concerned. Such as tackling global climate change. Especially when there is much urgency to solve big problems, the paradox comes to bite.

This blog post introduces the Paradox of Emergence and muses on how it holds back the FOSS movement from becoming more sustainable. And poses that while “Follow your dreams” is a platitude, it constitutes an #UrgentPlatitude, a SX concept, and we should truly heed those more, take them to heart. — Excerpt from my upcoming blog post (shortened to fit).. -- “Invest in your dreams to make them real”. That is the basic hedonic driver that is behind the SX SEE model for Sustainable ecosystem evolution. It is but a simple credo, but one that more people should take to heart in their daily work, hobby, and life. Dream about the possibilities that exist to see the opportunities that are within reach generally leads to better outcomes. Think now, so you can play better. Get on top of your own game. Our modern world, the doomspiral of the news, our technological progress decoupled from societal progress, disencourages us from having dreams and follow where they lead us. We are dependent on many other people to support us in our aspirations and to get further in life. To provide help in areas where we are lacking. The paradox prohibits us from conveying our dreams to others well enough, so they follow along and contribute to them. The paradox manifestates itself all across human society, but in particular where solving wicked problems is concerned. Such as tackling global climate change. Especially when there is much urgency to solve big problems, the paradox comes to bite. This blog post introduces the Paradox of Emergence and muses on how it holds back the FOSS movement from becoming more sustainable. And poses that while “Follow your dreams” is a platitude, it constitutes an #UrgentPlatitude, a SX concept, and we should truly heed those more, take them to heart.

The diagram shows an exponential 'value creation' graph, with on the X-access the progress of evolution along the solution path. Below the axis the various lifecycle stages of the fediverse service delivery lifecycle are listed: Inception, Ideation, Realization, Delivery, Experience. Rate of value creation & aggregation of the social supply line depends on participation rate.

On the Y-axis is the Potential of the solution design, where value-add of investment in the solution depends on how emergent design leads to desired outcomes. It is not easily perceived as it exists mostly still in emergent space.

Diagram has 3 quadrants. On the bottom left the participation zone is where prolonged Investment is asked, while only little value can be demonstrated in the field. The biggest part above the participation / investment zone is the anticipation zone, where we dream and find possibilities and related opportunities that may have great potential. Expectation mismatch is a risk as the emergent value is stil invisble to most people.

The paradox is solved at an inflection point along the evolution axis of the solution, called appropriately 'the paradox of emergence' point, when actual value is demonstrated by positive societal impact that grows via SX feedback loops. This is the solution zone, the full right side of the diagram, where value creation can grow exponentially and dreams turn to their realization. Now there are sustainability risks to healthy evolution to monitor well. — The diagram shows an exponential 'value creation' graph, with on the X-access the progress of evolution along the solution path. Below the axis the various lifecycle stages of the fediverse service delivery lifecycle are listed: Inception, Ideation, Realization, Delivery, Experience. Rate of value creation & aggregation of the social supply line depends on participation rate. On the Y-axis is the Potential of the solution design, where value-add of investment in the solution depends on how emergent design leads to desired outcomes. It is not easily perceived as it exists mostly still in emergent space. Diagram has 3 quadrants. On the bottom left the participation zone is where prolonged Investment is asked, while only little value can be demonstrated in the field. The biggest part above the participation / investment zone is the anticipation zone, where we dream and find possibilities and related opportunities that may have great potential. Expectation mismatch is a risk as the emergent value is stil invisble to most people. The paradox is solved at an inflection point along the evolution axis of the solution, called appropriately 'the paradox of emergence' point, when actual value is demonstrated by positive societal impact that grows via SX feedback loops. This is the solution zone, the full right side of the diagram, where value creation can grow exponentially and dreams turn to their realization. Now there are sustainability risks to healthy evolution to monitor well.

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@smallcircles@social.coop · 6 days ago

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

#ParadoxOfEmergence. The Paradox of Emergence entails that the more intricate an #EmergentDesign gets, the more complex #WickedProblems it can potentially solve.

However, all the potential power remains dormant, ethereal and invisible, especially to people other than the designer. It can only be properly perceived and valued, either with deep attention and focus on the emergent dynamics of the design. Or by dilligent practice in the field.

A design may represent a beautiful emergent Golden Dragon of Problem Solving. Waiting in its lair under Wicked Problem mountain for when its time to breathe its Fires of Solution onto mankind. Ready to soar. Yet what most other people and even at times the designer themself perceive is merely a tiny mouse. Thus they are unwilling to add their 2 cents to a Potential they cannot grasp. Unable to see how their support adds to a sizable Dragon's Hoard that has already emerged, lending power to the dragon so it may be unleashed.

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@smallcircles@social.coop replied · 5 days ago

#ParadoxOfEmergence

The Paradox Of Emergence is the inability to explain to pragmatic people who say "Show me the money" in terms of what your solution is capable of. A good emergent design that models with emergent forces as building blocks to which it specifies simple rules, may have prepared a Golden Dragon that is ready and waiting to be unleashed. Yet it exists entirely in emergent space, it is pure potential all the way. The Dragon is lurking unseen to anyone but the designers themself, making the solution a tough sell, where investments in time and money are asked for. OTOH once the Dragon has been unleashed, then its true value becomes readily apparent to anyone. Another example is chess. Can the first inventor of the game, convey Magnus Carlson level concepts to demonstrate the power & potential of this new game, where other people only see some simple building blocks and rule set?

#SX #SocialCoding #Emergence

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@smallcircles@social.coop · last week

#ThoughtProvoker

Back to promise and power of AP?
Sustainable #evolution, hmm, yes.
#Emergence, you say? Right, umm.. 🤷

#Fediverse-we-have vs. #ActivityPub, which is more powerful and #versatile ?

Lego Sets vs. Lego Blocks, which is more powerful and versatile?

View the video mentioned in the article about Emergent Complexity..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HqUYpGQIfs

Can you influence and steer emergence and evolution? Some people like me, with Social experience design think so. Another person is Richard D. Bartlett known from #Loomio who also is behind #Microsolidarity, which I was reminded of the other day. Have a look for yourself..

https://www.microsolidarity.cc

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

@woozle the article was described as "fairly long thinkpiece" by @Profpatsch which with 53 min. read time is an understatement of "fairly long" where it comes to typical online content.

Thank you for taking the time and ponder things! I think that is the most important. We are all so pragmatic and want to have quick results. And our society is asking to be hurried. Everything is urgent. All is in peril. But giving in to that urge is a trap, that makes us weaker as mankind to face our wickedest problems.

Besides "Hammock driven development" mentioned in the article, #Emergence is key. And emergence is WEIRD and fascinating. I just tooted about it in..

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116384803540561801

--

I used #SolidProject just to contrast a totally opposite approach to how fedi evolves: Fully formal #OpenStandards driven, but with risk to evolve into a 'standards maze' without ecosystem support.

#Mastodon Foundation is a new development. Hopefully they care beyond the app.

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

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@smallcircles@social.coop · 7 days ago

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

The fun of #SX is that you don't have to learn it, nor do you have to get it taught to you.

Like chess you should #experience it to gain #experience, and you do that by meeting other #people and #practice it. By #SocialExperience with your friends and peers in the chess world #SocialGraph. Weaving #SocialFabric where you can be playful, creative and do experiments, engage in #challenges. This keeps one intrinsically #motivated to stay into the #game. Learn more. Enter a virtuous ⭕ circle of rewarding #exercises.

And perhaps one day. Suddenly and unexpected, #opportunity finds you to play against #MagnusCarlsen. And WIN!

The important thing is: You need not have any *expectation* for that. And most people shouldn't, as it is boils down to 'hanging yourself up to a Vision' if you simply don't possess the 'chess genius gene'. Most people don't.

However you can still #Dream about beating Magnus one day to have fun at every level of your progression path to mastery.

Photo of Magnus Carlson sitting across the table of 10 year old Faustino Oro at the 2025 Chess Championship, before the first move is made.

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@smallcircles@social.coop replied · 7 days ago

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

Emergence. So fascinating, that. I came to some deep insight re: commons organization, a concept I call the Paradox of (commons based) Emergence. Hope to post a forum topic on it soon.

I told so often on the channels that I shouldn't explain so much about SX concepts. That it was a failure condition. And it is. It was also my method to reiterate to myself for testing and improving them against various statements. And to jog my bad memory.

#SX #ThoughtExperiment. #Emergence needs 2 ingredients: Simple building blocks and a set of rules. What if you were the first person to invent chess? For chess you can write them down in a heartbeat. Then though, this first designer / inventor of the game, who thinks it through..

Can they imagine at that time Magnus Carlson level complexity?

1/2

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@smallcircles@social.coop · 7 days ago

@woozle @Profpatsch @eryn

Thank you! I am delighted to hear that. An *intent* in itself is already valuable. And even more so, being *intentional* in what you do. Both of these have emergent properties. So you are *already* practicing #SX by sending this toot, it constitutes your 2 cents. And hence, truly, you may call yourself Social experience designer, if that were your dream job like it is mine. 😊

This is how weird and wonderful emergence is. At least that is my *expectation*. I am also merely practicing, ha ha :)

#SX #Emergence #ParadoxOfEmergence

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@smallcircles@social.coop · 7 days ago

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@smallcircles@social.coop · last week

#ThoughtProvoker

Back to promise and power of AP?
Sustainable #evolution, hmm, yes.
#Emergence, you say? Right, umm.. 🤷

#Fediverse-we-have vs. #ActivityPub, which is more powerful and #versatile ?

Lego Sets vs. Lego Blocks, which is more powerful and versatile?

View the video mentioned in the article about Emergent Complexity..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HqUYpGQIfs

Can you influence and steer emergence and evolution? Some people like me, with Social experience design think so. Another person is Richard D. Bartlett known from #Loomio who also is behind #Microsolidarity, which I was reminded of the other day. Have a look for yourself..

https://www.microsolidarity.cc

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

#NoteToSelf ✏️

I discovered, from my own experience in the commons in the past and by writing them down, what I now call and will elaborate for #SX: The #Paradox of #Emergence.

#ParadoxOfEmergence. A deep insight. I should take some time to elaborate its relation to the commons and how our individual work relates to the larger whole. And why we forget about that relation if we "play our own game" autonomously and try to aggregate value to affect big change. It also relates to #ExpectationManagement again: Who are the other players?

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116384803540561801

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@smallcircles@social.coop · 7 days ago

#ThoughtProvoker

@laurenshof wrote fabulous reports analysing our #SocialWeb and sadly this included raging techno-ideological #ProtocolWars too. How can we turn that to #Progress?

So much friction and heat in the raging discussions #ActivityPub vs. #ATProto 😭

🔮 What is *much* more relevant in #Bluesky vs AP is WHY ❔ Bluesky + ATProto gets the bigger uptake, despite compromising on #moral and #ethical values and #principles we hold dear.

Knowing the answers to that is where #opportunity for strategic action comes from. And subsequently following what you may call #FocusedPragmatism instead of just 'wild-coding' the chaotic #fedi with countless independent, uncoordinated "Show, don't tells" of yet more code to shove onto the #BigBallOfMud that fediverse-we-have increasingly represents.

#ActivityPubAPI provides such Opportunity.

To revive on a *greenfield basis* doing #Protocol design and adopt lessons-learned from APv1 #Microbloggosphere vs. #Atmosphere.

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@smallcircles@social.coop replied · 7 days ago

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

For those who chimed in to join the #brainstorming and want to be nerdsniped potentially you may ponder that..

♟️ #Chess is a great example of an #EmergentSystem.

🌱 Recipe for #Emergence of chess #game

- [chess ingredients here]

And then to continue onwards and think how the relationship is between #FOSS individuals who give their all-in best-efforts for world improvement, make real sacrifices, and who gift their 2 cts with best-intentions, still are faced with uncomfortable questions.

To turn that into solution-orientation we must find a good recipe, and note down #recipe ingredients..

🌱 Recipe for Sustainable open social systems i.e. #SOSS

- [sustainable FOSS ingredients here]

Hint / rule: Max. ingredients is 10.

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116316524763055082

@helge Recipe support on the #ActivityPub fediverse?

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@smallcircles@social.coop · 2 weeks ago

@ireneista @katrinatransfem @Shrigglepuss

I think online the most missed element are all the countless micro signals, most of which we aren't actively aware of when we communicate with other people face-to-face in the same room. Online comms is even not comparable to standing in the same room separated by a divider wall, where a ton of information is conveyed by intonation, timing, all the sounds and hesitations we make around our spoken words.

In text communicaiton we try to make up for it.. ha ha lolz 🤣 with emoji language and stuff like that. And other online cultural habits. Those are likely much less commonly well-understood than, say, interpreting the micro expressions that cross someone's face when they speak.

Good UX and SX design can do a ton to help convey meaning to plain text, to help add more nuance and meaning and less likelihood for miscommunications to occur.

For SX patterns I mull on Communication profiles that serve as comm channel overlays and set social context.

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@smallcircles@social.coop replied · 7 days ago

@ireneista @katrinatransfem @Shrigglepuss

Besides some potential for nerdsniping you on subject matter of #Evolution and #Emergence and how that *potentially* relates to #fedi techz, I wrote a blog post on the topic of #GrassrootsOpenStandards that provide proper mechanisms to introduce #Communication profiles as channel overlays, and stuff like that. Have a look at..

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016

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@smallcircles@social.coop · last week

@khleedril @mavnn

It is getting quite long, I'm afraid. I am at a half hour read time now. 😅

But at least I added a TLDR section for the rushed infosnack passers-by, which I might just as well already divulge to in below discussion thread..

https://discuss.coding.social/t/grassroots-open-standards-for-fediverse-evolution/834

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@smallcircles@social.coop replied · 7 days ago

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@smallcircles@social.coop · last week

#ThoughtProvoker

Back to promise and power of AP?
Sustainable #evolution, hmm, yes.
#Emergence, you say? Right, umm.. 🤷

#Fediverse-we-have vs. #ActivityPub, which is more powerful and #versatile ?

Lego Sets vs. Lego Blocks, which is more powerful and versatile?

View the video mentioned in the article about Emergent Complexity..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HqUYpGQIfs

Can you influence and steer emergence and evolution? Some people like me, with Social experience design think so. Another person is Richard D. Bartlett known from #Loomio who also is behind #Microsolidarity, which I was reminded of the other day. Have a look for yourself..

https://www.microsolidarity.cc

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

@khleedril @mavnn

But finally.. here we are. My #ThoughtProvoker article, and it became a whopping 53 min. read 🤯. Publishing such long reflective texts is not common. So I added a #poll to #AskFedi how they parse and consume such #fediverse posted content..

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116379158584600016

My follow-up appeal for reflection is also fascinating as it relates to #Emergence which is one the key drivers for #Evolution in #SX and being involved in #SocialCoding..

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116384803540561801

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@smallcircles@social.coop · 7 days ago

@dahukanna @woozle

Well said. Esp. when things are HARD, like the wicked problems that ail our world, #ClimateChange for instance. Everyone should contribute their fair share, right? Give just their 2 cents?

#Emergence deals with radical #Simplicity. But simple ain't easy.

Wicked problems require wicked solutions. Numerous tiny #solution increments made all over the place by different people. It requires 'thinking at scale' for prolonged times, and 'doing' on the basis of that. In terms of planning for that 'Bigger Ideas' need time to mature and ripen, and this too involves many people. And is emergent and evolutionary in nature too! This great animation on "Where good ideas come from" calls this the 'Slow Hunch"..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU

#SX's slow hunch took 11 years.

There's another great vid by Rich HIckey, creator of #Clojure, besides "Hammock Driven Development" mentioned in the article, titled "Simple made Easy" given at a #StrangeLoop conference..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4

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@smallcircles@social.coop · last week

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@smallcircles@social.coop · last week

#ThoughtProvoker

Back to promise and power of AP?
Sustainable #evolution, hmm, yes.
#Emergence, you say? Right, umm.. 🤷

#Fediverse-we-have vs. #ActivityPub, which is more powerful and #versatile ?

Lego Sets vs. Lego Blocks, which is more powerful and versatile?

View the video mentioned in the article about Emergent Complexity..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HqUYpGQIfs

Can you influence and steer emergence and evolution? Some people like me, with Social experience design think so. Another person is Richard D. Bartlett known from #Loomio who also is behind #Microsolidarity, which I was reminded of the other day. Have a look for yourself..

https://www.microsolidarity.cc

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

@woozle the article was described as "fairly long thinkpiece" by @Profpatsch which with 53 min. read time is an understatement of "fairly long" where it comes to typical online content.

Thank you for taking the time and ponder things! I think that is the most important. We are all so pragmatic and want to have quick results. And our society is asking to be hurried. Everything is urgent. All is in peril. But giving in to that urge is a trap, that makes us weaker as mankind to face our wickedest problems.

Besides "Hammock driven development" mentioned in the article, #Emergence is key. And emergence is WEIRD and fascinating. I just tooted about it in..

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116384803540561801

--

I used #SolidProject just to contrast a totally opposite approach to how fedi evolves: Fully formal #OpenStandards driven, but with risk to evolve into a 'standards maze' without ecosystem support.

#Mastodon Foundation is a new development. Hopefully they care beyond the app.

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

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@smallcircles@social.coop · last week

#ThoughtProvoker

Back to promise and power of AP?
Sustainable #evolution, hmm, yes.
#Emergence, you say? Right, umm.. 🤷

#Fediverse-we-have vs. #ActivityPub, which is more powerful and #versatile ?

Lego Sets vs. Lego Blocks, which is more powerful and versatile?

View the video mentioned in the article about Emergent Complexity..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HqUYpGQIfs

Can you influence and steer emergence and evolution? Some people like me, with Social experience design think so. Another person is Richard D. Bartlett known from #Loomio who also is behind #Microsolidarity, which I was reminded of the other day. Have a look for yourself..

https://www.microsolidarity.cc

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb

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Regular Lego blocks in different colors.

Lego Set shaped with blocks shaped to form the Dinosaurs depicted on the box, and in the instruction set.

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