The Wisdom of Crowds — James Surowiecki
Under the right conditions, crowds make better decisions than experts. The evidence and the conditions.
The Logic of Scientific Discovery — Karl Popper
Popper's argument that science advances by falsification — by being wrong in specific, refutable ways. The standard FRQNCY holds to when distinguishing what can be tested from what can only be believed.
The Mythical Man-Month — Frederick Brooks
Brooks on what he learned managing OS/360 at IBM — that adding people to a late project makes it later, that the second system is always over-engineered, that no silver bullet is coming. The most reread book in software, and still right.
Collective Intelligence Project
Designing new mechanisms for collective decision-making at scale. A serious research initiative.
Kaggle
The world's largest community of machine-learning practitioners. Runs the canonical ML competitions where the line between hobbyist and world-class is decided by a leaderboard, not a CV. Hosts hundreds of thousands of public datasets and notebooks — the closest thing the field has to a shared workshop. Free tier includes GPU/TPU compute. Where a generation of ML engineers learned the craft in public. Owned by Google since 2017 but the community culture predates the acquisition by a decade.
Charter Cities
Cities built from scratch with their own legal frameworks — special econ…
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The art of living together — building belonging, trust, and shared life…
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Communities living away from their ancestral homelands — the cultures, i…
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Intentional communities living lightly on the land — regenerative agricu…
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How societies pass knowledge to the next generation — and how those syst…
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Urban design for human and ecological thriving — the cities we need to b…
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How communities make decisions together — from ancient councils to digit…
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The suppressed and forgotten chapters of human civilisation — lost cultu…
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Education outside the institution. Microschools, pods, unschooling, clas…
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The knowledge systems of the world's original peoples — deep ecological…
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Education organised as a network rather than a building — pop-up cities,…
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Distributed digital communities forming the political and economic subst…
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