From the Notes Vault Source: http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~simon/lecture1_dedeo_csss_2010.pdf Entropy is a measure of a system’s: * Disorder * Information * Information carrying capacity * Uncertainty * Diversity Entropy is also PHYSICAL. You can look up entropies of different substances. “Water is just ice where the molecules are

How do the incentives (and counterbalance, risks and liabilities) of certain stakeholders within the project delivery process for buildings end up shaping the buildings themselves? Pointer from: Rabbit hole learning about project delivery that produced the Empire State Building Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1424833?seq=1#page_scan_

I suspect the design-bid-build nature of our “traditional” buildings industry has an impact on *progress.* Albeit what we call traditional is actually recent to the past ~100 years compared to the design-build process of history. This paper explains that the Empire State Building’s speed of construction was attributed to

MC Bateson on getting reacquainted with Cybernetics Pointer from: Searching “Macy conferences” obviously Systems Thinker caught my eye 🙂 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How To Be a Systems Thinker A Conversation With Mary Catherine Bateson [http://if%20you%20use%20the%20word%20%22cyber%22%20in%20our%20society%20now%2C%20people%20think%20that%20it%20means%

How to build topsight? * Space organization structures (map) * Time-organizing structures (script) Pointer from: Steven Johnson on a a16z podcast -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOK EXCERPTS: Topsight * “Topsight is what comes from a far overhead vantage point, from a birds eye view that reveals the whole— the big picture; how the parts fit together.

Caught my attention for love of diagramming. Stayed for the relationship between spatial & relational mapping, plus effective 80-20-esque impacts to search Pointer from: WikiQuotes link from Herb Simon Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1551-6708.1987.tb00863.x -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXCERPTS * Sentential representations are sequential, like

Collection of resources on water infrastructure from the Minoan & Mycenaean civilizations of Crete -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See PDF [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.524.5243&rep=rep1&type=pdf] for more Historical Aspects of Urban Water Systems [http://unix.eng.ua.edu/~rpitt/

Andy Grove’s Modes of Control matrix What would I add? * Personal ambition, recognition, competition * Regulation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jay Forrester’s Information feedback loop What would I add? * Training and Motivation (input: A Grove) * Information exists to create experience (input: J Lanier)

Notes Mildred & Ed Hall (known for other work on low/high context cultures) review the impact of building on behavior in an anthropological study centered around a new corporate campus for John Deere in Illinois. There are many ways that this summarizes much of the same approach (and confusion)