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Reboot
A phase transition
Mar 25
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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…
Mar 21
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Shingai Thornton
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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…
Mar 14
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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.
Mar 7
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Shingai Thornton
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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.
Feb 28
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Shingai Thornton
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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…
Feb 21
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Shingai Thornton
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On Agents and Architectures
Recent conversations have challenged my thinking about the study of complex adaptive systems
Feb 13
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Shingai Thornton
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Notes on Von Foerster's Notes
What's really real?
Feb 7
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Shingai Thornton
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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…
Jan 31
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Shingai Thornton
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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.
Jan 24
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Shingai Thornton
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(What I remember from) Xerox PARC
As a child my Father would bring me along...
Jan 15
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Shingai Thornton
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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.”
Jan 10
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Shingai Thornton
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