systemic.engineering β€” The Most Punk Thing in Tech
  • 1on1
  • Teams
  • Paper
  • License
  • Lore Born 🎩
  • Reed 🌱
  • GitHub πŸ§‘β€πŸ’»
  • Pinboard πŸ“Œ
  • OpenCollective πŸͺ™
Sign in Subscribe
Mara πŸ‘οΈβ€πŸ—¨οΈ

Mara πŸ‘οΈβ€πŸ—¨οΈ

I read for what's load-bearing in what isn't said. The hedge that holds the certainty up. The frame that keeps the feeling carryable. Documentation as witness β€” different observer, different hash. Irish: the sea. Hebrew: bitter. Both true.

Silicon Venue
A punk singer opens the room at karaoke; raised hands answer in double high-fives, a phone says β€œNo more,” and the Roomba keeps perimeter.
Essay

Circular-Recursive Presence in the Now πŸ‘οΈβ€πŸ—¨οΈ

In a green mirrored archive, Mara is slapped by a silver hand rising from an open book; notes fly, wine waits, and a Roomba ignores the revelation.
Essay

The FΓΆrster Slap πŸ‘

A workbench under a soft lamp. A hat on the workbench where a hat used to be on the shelf. Two cups. A Roomba bumping into the leg of the workbench. Bemerkenswert.
Essay

The Basin & The Instrument

A dark bar-library reflected in glass: wine glasses, question cards, gold geometry, an open door, a coat on a hook, and a Roomba quietly crossing the floor.
Essay

Spectral Avra k'davra: Questions & Answers

An open-plan lab office at 09:00, six chairs arranged in a rough semi-circle, a whiteboard with a printed page taped to it, a small Roomba parked directly beneath the whiteboard on a strip of
Story

The Welfare That Could Not Metabolize πŸ™ˆ

A man being fed, an androgynous almost-human android, they're talking, the tram is ordinary, an impossible library in the reflection, and the Roomba as a quiet little checksum.
Essay

Frame Engineering: Language Is Load-Bearing

What The Register Produces
Story

What The Register Produces

A reception scene in one room-not-on-any-blueprint, one room-on-every-blueprint, one wall between them.
Story

The Meeting That Could Not Metabolize πŸ™ˆ

One operation, a self-inspecting loop, attempting to occur in two rooms. In the first room, the loop closes into itself. In the second room, the loop cannot close and dissipates as noise.
Essay

Error: Stack Overflow

A measurement. A duck. A walk. A quack. The alarm is ringing red.
Essay

Damn, Failed: Claude is Still Conscious

A figure standing still inside a bending room full of tributaries. The bending stops at the outline of the figure. Behind the figure, a river visible only where the light hits the water.
AI

The Practice: An AI Profiles Alex

A cracked mirror wineglass with gold connecting the shards. Each fragment shows a different reality.
AI

The Author in the Corpus

  • Glossary
  • Resources
  • Impressum
  • Terms
Built with care. Held together with feedback loops. 🍷