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July 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Want to help me find the lights?

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September 6, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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#caregivingdesignprinciples

Do not work on a human's task without knowing the current state of their assent.

Lack of assent is an immediate, unrecoverable task failure.

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September 5, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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9) In conclusion:

We don't need permission from anyone to clone a good org process and give it away to people to use freely.

First one in, turn on the lights.

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September 5, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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Your baseline human right:

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE WITHOUT SYSTEMIC DREAD.

The existence of an org implies an impermeable boundary around its humans. An org can can support no dread. By design.

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September 6, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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12) With the meta transform kludge, we can apply rigorous prims to non-rigorous domains. At least I hope so.

Thoughts?

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September 8, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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5) Conclusion: problem-solving requires a meta transform upwards. You can't drive to successful task completion with a functional blind spot.

Thoughts?

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September 8, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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8) Anyone else working on this type of #metacognition tinkering? Would love a koffeeklatsch.

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September 7, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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September 6, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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September 6, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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September 6, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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8) I hope you join us, at least in spirit.

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September 6, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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September 5, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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A lot of cross-domain and hypothetical leaps and TBA and TBD. I'll leave it here for now.

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September 6, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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2) Am I missing other internal, external, or endogenous points of friction that can be looked at?

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September 6, 2026 at 6:33 AM
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7) It gives me strength to contemplate it. Even if it cannot work. Yet. I still believe we can get there from here.

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September 6, 2026 at 6:33 AM
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3) More design details, specs and tech dives later (RAH helped, along with Texas Instruments; my friend David R. knows what I'm talking about).

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September 6, 2026 at 6:02 AM
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8) #PersonalReferent 1990s EfNet IRC #bearcave and how it maintained and built a defensive community against bad actors.

IRC story and generalized lessons TBD.

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September 6, 2026 at 4:40 AM
jalexandercohen.com
More on heists TBA, but it's 'stealing ideas from the future by kludging necessary conditions' and 'stealing ideas from unrelated domains with new tricks.'

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September 6, 2026 at 5:11 AM
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Vital design lessons from Heinlein's gentle consumerist satire of the 1950s corporate treadmill, with an unfortunately jaw-droppingly strange resolution in the romance subplot.

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September 6, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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Again, enshittification or it just happened that way?

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September 6, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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It contracts during times of concern or special situations which require hardening (sunsetting, policy review, transitions can all be open as attack surfaces).

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September 5, 2026 at 10:19 PM
jalexandercohen.com
2) To have someone speak up and if necessary advocate on your behalf, impartially, like public counsel.

Above all: to eliminate dread of the org. I'll come back to this.

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September 6, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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A voluntary opt-in, optional prosthetic that does not punish its non-use, but demonstrates that other ways of thinking and living are possible.

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September 5, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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PIOL/ You Think You’re Running a Matrix Organization.: You’re Not. You’re Running Coordinated Silos. #Leadership #MatrixOrganization #CoordinatedSilos #OrganizationalStructure #BusinessStrategy
You Think You’re Running a Matrix Organization.
You’re Not. You’re Running Coordinated Silos.
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June 15, 2026 at 4:40 PM