Steve Whitla

My TEDx talk is back online now - making the world more meaningful through maps and systems thinking: youtu.be/hAFclNJ--Gs

You can now pre-order the Kindle edition of the Personal Knowledge Graphs book. personalknowledgegraphs.com #PKG #KnowledgeGraphs #TfT

@Mappletons I love those books - reading them in hardback is an example in itself of the "quality without a name" he was trying to describe

Finally splurged on physical copies. Scheduling some quality time with these lovelies this weekend.

@Mappletons Really enjoyed this - thankyou

I did a talk expanding on my essay about dark forest theory of the web / repercussions of generative AI on information & relationships online Slides & notes are up here: maggieappleton.com/forest-talk (Still need to clean up - just bullet points at the mo. Will fix typos, etc. later)

Just finished up a 🔥week at Causal Islands @causalislands conference. Hands down best conference I’ve been to in years! Every speaker was 3x as thoughtful, experienced, and insightful than usual confs. And no one shyed away from exploring political / social layers of tech work.

When George Orwell worked at KPMG meaning.guide/index.php/2023…

"Every time I work or give I discover a little bit more about why I am." - Etsko Schuitema

It’s weird how certain everyone sounds in their opinions about AI safety (in twitter replies to me). My academic papers about AI have been cited ~5000 times, so I’m not completely ignorant— and I don’t have a clue. Maybe y’all could try to be a little less certain too?

Whenever I look at the Theory U diagram I think of the Amazon logo, which is not the association you want really

Disney film contains surprisingly deep insights into systems practice … meaning.guide/index.php/2022…

If the purpose of a system is what it does, there must be some interesting parallels between the ISO Catalogue and the DSM

So true

@michaelthaber Hey Mike, I almost forgot too until proof copies of the paperback turned up on my doorstep! Hope you enjoy it and look forward to hearing what you think - the final section on shared meaning is ripe for a sequel ...

@michaelthaber @HSNOTTS took me a minute to realise that was a cloverleaf ... first thing I saw was a nasty smell? 🤔

This was so much fun, what better way to end the year than by talking shared meaning with some crazy data scientists in Texas. You guys are awesome - thanks for having me on.

Just came across this page in a popular EA text, and thinking how the medium really is the message. That this information is being expressed in this tone is a much better indication of why the problems exist than any of the suggestions in the actual text

@gotynker is there another way to get support apart from email? The last reply I got was in July, I've been emailing every week or two over the last few months, but no one ever replies.

I haven't had time to write much this year, but these thoughts have been percolating for the last six months since reading Walter Isaacson's biography of Leonardo, and contrasting Leonardo's approach with my day-to-day experience of management consulting: meaning.guide/index.php/2021…

@antlerboy Has anyone mentioned the Well Tempered Klavier?

@swhitla And also made comprehensible in some way to actual human beings :-D

Good sources for 'music to write to'? 'Benjamin's work playlist' on Apple Music is long but a bit stale now! Sakamoto and Kraftwerk are the touchstones, classical, opera, trad jazz and cool jazz, Divna Ljubojevic, Balearic beats - no English lyrics, a bit of a background vibe?

@antlerboy Indeed!!!

@swhitla hmm... I have a difficult relationship with Wagner, so maybe... thanks!