Systems: Week 7 — As old as they are, emails still feel like magic
Alright — if this system works, I’m going to flip.
After showing the newest version of the vault to people, a lot of the response I get is “This is cool, but I’m not going to check this URL compulsively. Is there a subscription somewhere?”. This is a starter system for the email subscription (and, as an extension, the Bluesky incremental post). It’s rough, but it’s something to start with.
Notes from this week
- A Pattern Language, and a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
- 2026-02-01 — The beginning of a topological review of the 1977 urban design and architecture reference book A Pattern Language, and a journey to understand Earth’s greatest graph: the Earth, itself.
- Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow
- 2026-01-28 — Annotations for Greiner’s 1972 paper “Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow”, about the structural composition of organizations at different sizes and requirements.