Link & Think

Engineered for Change with Andrea Valenti

The art of cultivating a culture of constant adaptation

11 hrs ago • 

Ivo Velitchkov

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August 2025

Containers All the Way Down

Containment pervades life, from life's own self-creation to the tools for storage and the tools for thought.

Aug 26 • 

Ivo Velitchkov

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Writing with Roam

How I use Roam Research for writing essays

Aug 5 • 

Ivo Velitchkov

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July 2025

Work-life Balance?

We are given one life, which is insultingly short. Then, the best we can hope for, if we can achieve work-life balance, is to live only half of it, and…

Jul 14 • 

Ivo Velitchkov

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June 2025

Trusticion Is All You Need

The current AI might not be the one we wished we had, but that is the path-dependent adjacent-possible that we do have. To make the best of it, we need…

Jun 10 • 

Ivo Velitchkov

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May 2025

Leader, Platform, Protocol

Manual intersection control, traffic lights and roundabouts can be seen as exemplars of the three main coordination modes: leader, platform, and…

May 28 • 

Ivo Velitchkov

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April 2025

The Medium is the Agent

One Friday in March, as usual in the mornings, I was drinking my coffee in bed and reading my morning paper.

Apr 12 • 

Ivo Velitchkov

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March 2025

Requisite Inefficiency

Viability Needs Strategic Waste

Mar 28 • 

Ivo Velitchkov

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AI Enables Fourth-order Observations

And they are very similar to second-order observations

Mar 1 • 

Ivo Velitchkov

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February 2025

Beyond Decentralization

Decentralization movements design their protocols in direct correspondence to and as a manifestation of their values. That openness has the benefits of…

Feb 9 • 

Ivo Velitchkov

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December 2024

When in Doubt, Zoom out

When in doubt about explaining and justifying something involving living beings, try zooming out.

Dec 3, 2024 • 

Ivo Velitchkov

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November 2024

Conversations with Luc Hoebeke (series)

This series contains the transcripts of a few conversations I had with Luc Hoebeke in the summer of 2024.

Nov 25, 2024 • 

Ivo Velitchkov

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