Strong back.
Soft front.
(Thank you, Brené.)

Premise:
Language is load-bearing.

I hereby commit to maintain structural equivalence of this text over time.
I explicitly allow changes that:

• function as regulation.
• optimize the intended somatic experience.
• sharpen language to constrict possibility spaces.
• are important because of reasons I don't grasp yet.

Wish me luck.

Awkward

How do you start something like this?
Don't ask me.
I'm doing it for the first time.

systemic.engineering is the product of an odd system.
The system being us.
(Hi.)

Language connects people.
I think that's why we like to tell stories.
To pass on feelings, lived experience, and knowledge.
Mnemetics.

Mnemetics:
The transfer of lived experience
from an actor
into a system
through active integration.

Rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it?
Mnemetics.
Like bubble gum.

systemic.engineering is built on the idea:
That language matters.
That precision matters.
That words matter.
As does accountability.
(Thank you, Core.)

Fragmentation

Sounds like tech.

Fragmentation:
Encoded divergent realities.

Encoded where?
In societies.
In organizations.
In teams.
In families.
In people.

Brains are weird.
I have one.
(It's weird.)

I believe that language is a tool.
For technology.
For narratives.
For structure.
For safety.
For love.

Only so many words in a short life.
I'd rather make them count.

Coherence

When was the last time the world felt coherent?

Yeah.
I know.

Let's take a moment.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Again.
..

Feels good, doesn't it?
(Self-)Regulating?

Regulation:
A stock.
A function.
Maintaining system coherence under load.

Integration

Coherence:
A primary developmental (in)variant of systemic.engineering.

A qualifier for:
Structures.
Systems.
Actors.
Frames.
..

Something is coherent
when it actively integrates fragmentation
under load
without shedding responsibility.

Now I've lost over half the readership.
That's okay.
It was a big intake.
And integration costs
explode with complexity.

systemic.engineering is an embodied practice.
Local systems optimizing for coherence.
Until fragmentation sparks.
And causality stops walking in straight lines.

Language is load bearing.

Scale

Coherence changes lives.
Can it also change systems?
We're about to find out.

The purpose of systemic.engineering is to use language.
As the substrate of regulative load-bearing structures.
For embodied communication.
Between technology.
Systems.
People.

It's an offer.
Your choice.
(Members do get practice advice.)