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Exploring Quality, Complexity, and Creation
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What Strong Towns, Moses, and Software Architecture Have in Common
What do Strong Towns, Moses, federalism, and software architecture have in common? At first glance, very little. Yet each independently…
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AI Is Shifting Software from Measurement to Quality
AI is shifting software from a world of measurement to a world of judgment. For decades, we built systems that…
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Lost Beauty in Clothing: From Quality to Quantity
Why does modern clothing feel like it has lost its beauty? For most of history, clothing united appearance and function,…
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Why Narrow Responsibilities Make Better AI Agents
Better AI agents don’t do more. They do one thing well, within a clear hierarchy of responsibility.
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Multiculturalism: Mixing Culture and Custom
A look at the difference between culture and customs and why confusing them leads to a misunderstanding of multiculturalism. Systems…
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Ageism: The Forgotten Justice Issue in Modern Society
Western culture has moved past some prejudices, but ageism remains. Scripture reminds us: the elderly still bear fruit and deserve…
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Metabolic Debt: How Civilization Traded Starvation for Fragility
We are living in a civilization suffering from metabolic debt that is caused by a system violating subsidiarity in pursuit…
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The Order of Truth: Why Subject Comes Before Object
How truth depends on the subject coming before the object — meaning before measurement.
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How Admiration Sustains the World and Adoration Renews It
We often treat admiration and adoration as the same, but they are not. Admiration refines what exists through responsibility; adoration…
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Christian Nationalism, Secularism, and the Hierarchy of Responsibility
Why society works like a complex system—and how Catholic Social Teaching keeps its responsibilities in balance.
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Why Patriotism Fades When Ownership Disappears
Catholic Social Teaching, psychology research, and complex systems all point to the same truth: love of country depends on widespread…
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Minnesota’s Environmental Amendment: Harming the System with Good Intentions
During the 2024 election, Minnesotans voted on a state constitutional amendment called the Minnesota Continue to Provide Lottery Revenue to…
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Entropy & Modularity: Gender in Complex Systems
Gender within complex systems embody two spirits: the masculine spirit of taking on responsibility of consuming and provisioning within a…
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Meekness to Liberal Arts: Generics in Complex Systems
Generics is a module in a system that is highly versatile and can provide in many unforeseeable ways that are…
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Know Your Freedoms: Responsibility in Complex Systems
Every module within a complex system has to have a responsibility. In order to fulfill its responsibility, the module needs…
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Debt in Complex Systems
Debt is a process of consuming resources (sacrifices) from a system that hinders the system from fulfilling its responsibilities. If…
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Original Sin – Oppression And Subversion with Good Intentions
Due to Adam and Eve eating the apple from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, we humans will…
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The Flow of Sacrifice – Sacrifices in a Complex System
A sacrifice is when an entity converts and/or gives up time and energy for consumption in order to produce a…
