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Cynthia Kurtz on why we should do a participatory project

When you worry that something you care about is going out of fashion, but you have no evidence for such a thing happening, the best course is to make the best argument you can for it as if the decline were happening. And then, if the decline is not happening, your best argument will still be useful. So I thought: What is my best argument for participation? What would entice a listening-weary, stay-at-home population to leave home and travel to the other earths of the people around them? How about an appeal to enlightened self-interest? Let’s see what I can ...

Chris Corrigan · EN

Cynthia Kurtz on PNI

Two Cynthia Kurtz posts in a row! Participatory Narrative Inquiry has been a very powerful way to connect my own facilitation, evaluation/research and change work in my practice. We’ve done PNI projects that have lasted from a few days to five years. Narrative capture and sense making creates a grounded and co-owned process for planning, creating change, adjusting strategy or simply understanding a current state. It works with the capacities and capabilities of the people in the organization or community themselves to do the work and so it is a good way to suspect the lure of the intervenor. .

Chris Corrigan · EN

Solving for uncertainty

A really good post from Chris Mowles that talks about how we seek to outsource our discomfort with uncertainty to an algorithm or a method or a process. Why is it so scary that unexpected things might happen when we get together to try and achieve something, unless we have things all planned out? Where is the room for the spontaneous, the novel and the eccentric? Two contrasting recent events have made me think about the technologies that we apply to meeting together, that aspire to create what my late colleague Doug Griffin used to refer to as the ...

Chris Corrigan · EN

William Prince from Massey Hall

Even when he’s rocking out, as he does at the end of this clip, William Prince is as loose and easy and still as a winter Wednesday morning.

Chris Corrigan · EN

State dismantles Trump's election interference case for Sullivan

Donald Trump and his corrupt attorney general are demanding that Alaska show favoritism to Sen. Dan Sullivan in the U.S. Senate election against challenger Mary Peltola. All Alaskans should be grateful today that two key attorneys in the Alaska Department of Law have been allowed to give an honest and clear-headed assessment of Trump’s unconstitutional enterprise.

Reporting From Alaska · EN

Another New York Times investigation on Peltola's campaign

The New York Times has a detailed account that says a man named Jerid Kurtz, a Democratic political operative, contacted Daniel J. Sullivan in Petersburg and raised the prospect of him running against Sen. Dan Sullivan.

Reporting From Alaska · EN

Name one Alaska voter who is confused by the two Dan Sullivans

I would like to find one voter in Alaska who is confused by the two Dan Sullivans and is unable to tell which is which on the ballot. Trump says that a lot of people in Alaska are too dumb to know what the word incumbent means. Let’s find one.

Reporting From Alaska · EN

Trump's illegal attack on Alaska elections continues to wilt in the face of facts

The Trump lawsuit to help Sullivan is likely to be dismissed this weekend by federal district Judge Sharon Gleason—mainly because the Department of Justice third-rate complaint is as credible as Trump’s plans to give $5,000 to every adult if the Republicans win.

Reporting From Alaska · EN

Alaska Department of Law attorneys push back on Trump's election tampering

We can be thankful that Trump lackeys are not calling the shots on the state response to Donald Trump’s interference in Alaska’s U.S. Senate election to help Sen. Dan Sullivan, but that veteran and courageous attorneys in the Alaska Department of Law are managing to tell the truth in their court filings.

Reporting From Alaska · EN

Federal judge tosses Trump's Alaska election lawsuit

Federal Judge Sharon Gleason dismissed the Trump attempt to interfere with the U.S. Senate election in Alaska to benefit Sen. Dan Sullivan.

Reporting From Alaska · EN

JKT has what it takes to lead Alaska after 8 years of Dunleavy decline

It says a lot about Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins that even when he broke two bones in his right leg during a paragliding flight from Flattop four years ago, it was a bipartisan event.

Reporting From Alaska · EN

Sullivan, echoing Trump, claims some Alaskans don’t know what incumbent means

Sen. Dan Sullivan has just started to repeat Donald Trump’s claim that some Alaskans don’t know what incumbent means, so they are unable to read the ballot and tell which Sullivan is which. Trump says you need a “190 IQ” to read the Alaska ballot.

Reporting From Alaska · EN

Is HashiCorp a Broken Brand?

What it means to have a brand is you’ve made a promise to people. - Seth Godin In 1983, Halston signed a one billion dollar deal with JCPenney. That deal was the beginning of the end for Halston. Halston started as a fashion designer in the 1960s, eventually being described as “the top of the fashion show-biz heap.” He designed the pillbox hat that first lady Jacqueline Kennedy wore to her husband’s inauguration, made uniforms for the U.S. Olympic teams, and created costumes for a famous ballet. He was seen with a group of models so often that they became known as “the Halstonettes.” In short,

Constraint Lab · EN

It's Supposed To Be Hot

Several NFL players were sitting in a meeting room, complaining about the heat. It was training camp for the Tennessee Titans in Nashville, TN. Summers in Nashville are brutal. It’s hot. It’s humid. There’s no cloud cover. It’s miserable. As the players complained about the rigors of training in the stifling heat, future Hall of Famer Eddie George spoke up. “It’s training camp. It’s supposed to be hot.” I consider myself to be a software engineer of average talent with one very useful focus: I hate hard things. Software engineering is full of complexity that is a nightmare to work with. In my

Constraint Lab · EN

AI is a bubble, just like dot-com

August 5, 2026 I tested out having Claude generate the final draft. Results were quite clear that people would not read it lol. Andrej Karpathy has written large language models the way most of us have written CRUD apps. He was a founding member of OpenAI, ran AI at Tesla, and joined Anthropic this spring to train Claude. He wrote nanoGPT and llm.c, the small readable codebases people use to learn how a language model works end to end. When Anthropic put Claude inside Slack, he called it “a new paradigm” — the third major redesign of how humans use these systems. Not a website you visit anymor

Constraint Lab · EN

How AI changes our system of work

So your company is making thirty-six percent more money from your plant just from installing some robots? Incredible. - Jonah from The Goal AI is impressive technology, but more interesting to me is how we apply the technology. The fast rollout has some good and some bad. In my experience, no one has done a sufficient job of explaining the rules on determining what’s good and what’s bad. And I’m not talking about experience reports, vague mandates, or arguments that hand-wave the important details. It seems obvious to me that our current plan of tokenmaxxing is not just bad from a Goodhart’s L

Constraint Lab · EN

Pupdate

This is Rylan. How (Not) To Buy A Puppy There’s a meme wandering around Twitter/Facebook at the moment:…

Aquarionics · EN

Geekcode 2022

Another even year, another odd Geekcode. The Geekcode is a very old tradition. It was written by Robert…

Aquarionics · EN

Record of Achievement

On the interesting properties of becoming the kind of person who buys vinyl records.

Aquarionics · EN

2022 in Video Games

I’ve played some computer games in 2022. Here are some words about some of them. Final Fantasy 14…

Aquarionics · EN

Glorious

When the dog owners of the world are asked for the wonders of winter in this country, they…

Aquarionics · EN

Day One, Sixteenth of its name

Today is the first day of something. For me, it’s a new job, for you it’s probably something…

Aquarionics · EN

Bloomscrolling & Agentic Intelligence

It is a fault, universally acknowledged, that to sit on a vertically scrolling site for a long time…

Aquarionics · EN

I’m Enjoying Crimson Desert, Ask Me Anything

Crimson Desert is a computer game. Specifically it’s an open-world action-adventure RPG set in a pseudo-feudal society. Originally…

Aquarionics · EN