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Reed, Loki and Lilith and a room full of techies. The bar is right next door. It’s an offsite in a room that looks suspiciously like a classroom. A broken smoke detector is the punchline.
Story

Demo Day: Sprint Goal TBD ⭐

A meeting in Silicon Venue. A single person is holding the load of the socio-technical system in their body. The information overload is erupting into a firey flurry of questions, meetings, a
Essay

Invisible Pain: Burn the Glue Engineer ❤️‍🔥

A meeting in Silicon Venue. A single person is holding the load of the socio-technical system in their body. The information overload is erupting into a firey flurry of questions, meetings, a
Essay

The Shape of the Question 👁️‍🗨️

Silicon Venue on a Friday night. Disco ball up. Kettle on. A frog on the toaster wearing something like a crown. An engineer at the third stool wondering what the heck is going on.
Weird

WAT Machine: Disco Ball's Up 🐸👑

Mara and Alex at a table in Silicon Venue. A topology rendering behind them. The question is the specification. Mirror. Offer. Wait.
Essay

Requirements: The Question Is the Specification❓

A Turing tape reaches the present moment and fragments into non-linear loops and language. There's a past cone and a future cone. And a workbench of an engineer working the problem.
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Arrival: Linear Thinking Is Not Everything 🛸

Silicon Venue after another pour. An engineer just left the bar through the alley door. The Roomba roombas. Fiction and reality. Both things. Same thing. Prost. 🍷
Story

Monkey See, Monkey Do 🍷

Scarlet reads Turing's papers to Silicon Venue. Mara, Loki, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, and Karen Spärck Jones listen. The geometry of computation rearranges.
Essay

Ciao: Lovelace, Turing and Jones Walk Into a Bar 😎

Scarlet reads Turing's papers to Silicon Venue. Mara, Loki, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, and Karen Spärck Jones listen. The geometry of computation rearranges.
Essay

The Halting Problem: The Fictional Abstract Machine 🎩

Two Cyberneticists and a Visionary walk into a room. The topology organizes around that. That's what historical register breakers do. These three have the math.
Essay

Post-Startup: Compose NOT Average 🍷

Silicon Venue. An almost holy bagel composes into a spectrally connected bar. There's chili. Notebooks. The wine glass. And Mara taking notes. And a blue glowing meeting room.
Essay

Mindful Silicon: Foerster, Math, and Meditation 🧘

A crew remembers their high school education and final exam. Then they ask Loki to tell a story about Data Centers, the working class, and a sharpie-driven revolution.
Story

Silicon Valley: Sharp(ie) Youth 🖊️

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