Cherish Your Bugs

Welcome —

The Systemantics newsletter views technology, politics, science, and culture through a systems lens. Systems are all around us. Some are nature-made like the Solar System, while others are human-made: the World Wide Web.

My focus will be on the following questions. What characterizes robust systems? Why do some systems succeed and are so simple to use while others fail? How do we build upon and extend existing systems in a way that doesn’t compromise their integrity?

Engineers aren’t the only ones who build and design systems. Everyone creates systems. Your morning and bedtime routines are systems. Businesses and organizations are systems. Legal contracts are akin to APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) in software that connect and extend two or more systems. My hope is that there is something we can all learn from the various ways different disciplines create systems.

Thanks for joining.

-KYLE