Program For The Future | Knowledge Federation

Compendium of 1:1 Personal Interaction Types, illustrative

shooting the sh*t
watching a movie together
idle conversation
excited pointed conversation
argument
teaching
advising
joking around
poker playing
teaching martial art
therapy
counseling
meeting with agenda
brainstorming
interrogation
mediating
dialog
serious conversation
introduction
flirting
training
testing
poking
prodding
kissing
making love
arousing
titillating
fondling
massaging
spooning
f*cking
impressing
dating
marry
attracting
emanating?
glowing?
overpowering
torturing
tweaking / pushing buttons
hating
irritating
firing
hiring
recruiting
teasing
story telling
performing
killing
muting
spinning up
inspiring
encouraging
supporting
sympathizing
empathizing
co-creating with
co-authoring
co-evolving?
sitting with
sitting beside
driving with
travel with
pick up
drop off
enter commitment
insulting
complimenting
protecting
enveloping
appreciating
thanking
worshipping
honoring
respecting
celebrating
congratulating
…

Is interactivity a crucial or trivial part of text, in terms of knowledge work?

Frode asks (Facebook status update, 20151027) “Is interactivity a crucial or trivial part of text, in terms of knowledge work?”

The trivial superficial response is “trivial”. The deeper crucial response is “crucial”. But beyond the wordplay gamification:

I’ll respond in terms of “how we experience text”.

When I am “reading” as in “consuming text”, inasmuch as “text” can appear like what used to be called “paper”, and inasmuch as paper could be viewed as “non-interactive”, then the answer here would be on the “trivial” side of the question.

Insofar as we are LIVE, as in living beings, and living beings shift focus from object / issue to object / issue, and physically move, and receive dynamic stimuli from varied sources… then as we “experience text”, we will need to contend with a number of distractions, and attend to a number of ancillary needs, as we try to extract as much meaning and understanding as possible from that text.

For example, I may encounter a topic, concept, or term that I am unfamiliar with. I may most optimally need to divert myself to addressing that knowledge gap so that I can then optimally experience the original text / document with the best possible frame of mind to leverage that text for whatever purposes.
In another example, I may want to drill into a particular presentation or line of reasoning, and may want to “lay it out” spatially, or reorganize it some way, so I can look at associated “nodes” or “chunks” of knowledge, to really follow implications and make the most of the connection points between the material and my existing mental model.
I may need to put my ingest of the material (reading) on “pause”, as life gets in the way of my full attention. After the distraction, I may need to reconstruct my mental context, which may have been lost while I dealt with the demands of that life distraction.l
I may want to create a citation, or note, or “transclusion” of some sort… so that I can add a snippet or the entire work into my “personal knowledge repository”.
I’m sure I can come up with more use cases…

So my more serious response is that interactivity is a key enabling mode that can be designed, optimized, adapted, etc. so that knowledge work can be as effective as possible.

How I Write

I’ll start with understanding clearly what I want to achieve.

What do I want my reader to “take away” after reading my writing?

Create a workable plan that will achieve that / those result(s)

What progression of content (to be created or curated / cited) will create that line of reasoning and shift in mental model?
What could make it most compelling?
Where shall I put this contribution / artifact?

Create an artifact with this plan.

The plan is a set of TODO items for the artifact
This plan is metacontent.
As sections of content get created, the metacontent can be “checked off” and made invisible
The metacontent can evolve as the content evolves. It’s essentially the “backlog” for the content creation project
Appendix / Final section: Where this document exists on the Internet. What single location is authoritative?

Once the metacontent has dwindled to “nothing”, the document / artifact is DONE.

Tamera is a School and Research Station for Realistic Utopia

Sheri Herndon writes about Tamera:

COMMUNITY BUILDING: CREATING A BASIS OF TRUST In the context of this balance between inner and outer peacework, in the center of the education and research of the GC are questions about what it means to live in healthy relations. How to create community: How do we create social systems that create trust and mutual respect? Community is essential for sustainability: the technologies of the future will only be regenerative and sustainable as far as the human communities function. Again and again, in ecological, social and political movements, we witness groups fail based on interpersonal conflict and unresolved inner structures. Community can be a powerful vessel to become conscious of these mostly unconscious steering mechanisms.

From a recent report from Tamera and their Global Campus Gathering. Those interested in the new models, this is a great summary and harvest of an epic gathering of world changers creating a culture of peace from the inside out, embodying this new culture in all our relations.

What is Intertolerance?

When discussing application, infrastructures, protocols, messaging, etc. it is necessary to precisely agree on semantics of expressions in order to avoid “mistakes”. However, HTML as a representation format has survived largely due to its ability to “tolerate” expressions that are not understood… the browser just ignores those expressions. That has allowed “backward compatibility” of HTML and browser versions, as new language constructs can be introduced that are just seamlessly (mostly) just ignored by older browsers.

Recently, Frode has introduced a need to discuss representation formats. One very strong reason Frode likes HTML is this ability to tolerate expressions that are not currently understood.

Sam (I) was asked by Frode today “If you went off on your own today with $2M+ to build something, what would you build?” I recalled my early 90’s desire to build a “spreadliner” – an application (we thought in terms of apps in those days) that could take a chunk of text, and allow those memes to be spread out spatially so that visual relationships could be depicted (not just mind-mapped), and also have individual nodes / chunks / memes that could be attributed so that they could be viewed in tabular, or spreadsheet, views. Fundamentally, I (Sam) seek knowledge representation that can allow multiple presentation modes (Doug calls them viewspecs), clearly separating the KNOWLEDGE from the PRESENTATION OF THAT KNOWLEDGE. (reference here to GlobalSIM vs GlobalVIZ).

In order that the knowledge be presentable in multiple views, we must design knowledge representation in such a way that metadata required for one view be non-harmful to the fundamental knowledge object, or to other views.

What is still a question is WHERE this metadata ought be located. Is it a part of the knowledge itself? Arguably, it is NOT essential to the knowledge itself, but to the viewspec / presentation mode that is being applied at viewtime.

More to be mulled…

What is Dictipedia?

We each have our own diction, aka language. We use terms the way we understand them, regardless of whether they are completely consistent with the “correct” dictionary definitions. For basic everyday terms, this usually is not a problem, and usually no difficulty in the course of human interactions.

In domains with specialization of terms, eg. medicine, construction, sciences, and other highly skilled and technical areas of activity, these differences in meaning / definition / usage / implication / etc. can lead to project complications and even failures, if not caught and managed well.

Dictipedia is a toolset and set of practices that recognize and facilitate that “we each travel with our own language”, and that when we come together to collaborate, or to form teams, bringing these “languages” together is a necessary step in team formation.

Dictipedia:

Recognizes that we each have terms and phrases that carry certain meanings to each of us as individuals
Recognizes that we have potentially conflicting or at least inconsistent meanings when we use the same terms and phrases
Recognizes that explicating these terms and phrase differences for discussion and eventual resolution is a Good Thing in team formation
Recognizes that as we go from team to team, we pick up and migrate terms and phrases and bring them into our next teams
Assists in bringing forth the discussions necessary to align terms, phrases, and concepts
Assists in tracing the derivation of meanings from individual to individual, team to team, etc.
Assists in bringing language to the fore as a key First Class Object in team formation
Assists in disambiguating language so that the team can be in flow as quickly as possible

A dictipedia (noun) is an asset of an individual. A dictipedia is an asset of a team. Allowing teams to form with multiple individuals from potentially different backgrounds, and for teams to form, execute, dissolve, etc. is a key tenet of dictipedia’s services.

Much more coming…

What is Collaborology?

Collaborology is the theory and practice of successful scalable collaboration…

Ultimately to the level where planetary issues can be addressed by us as a people (all citizens of Earth).

This includes studies of how success happens, but also
How failure happens.
Collaborology addresses the collaboration externals (tools, protocols, artifacts, etc) as well as
Collaboration internals (development, tools, presentation, maturity, etc. of collaborating individuals).
We will evolve the formal object model of collaborology.
We will characterize failure modes.
We will characterize success modes.
We will provide insights and guidance for different scales and objectives of teams and projects.
Collaborology addresses atomic collaboration (1:1 between 2 individuals, or 1:0 an individual with self), and scales upward.

Collaborology includes practices such as

CCC (Communication and Commitment to Collaborate)
COI (practices of self and peer accountability and community)
Identity (Transparency within a “circle of trust”)

If Collaborology can be well enough understood as to become a “hard science”, the mathematics of collaborology may be developed: Sociomatics.

What is WYSIWYDo?

WYSIWYDo is the infrastructure (tooling, applications, protocols, practices, principles,…) to support atomic-level collaboration: The 2-person agreement. WYSIWYDo is intended to scale from this micro-level to macro-level collaboration at global scale.

WYSIWYDo incorporates a basic state model for collaborative interactions. It is simple, but extensible.
WYSIWYDo recommends a protocol for negotiating (exploring, requesting, confirming, executing, confirming, closing) action items.
WYSIWYDo incorporates an extension model whereby it can integrate seamlessly with other applications and services.
WYSIWYDo will be available on the web, as well as on mobile devices in order to always be available to support collaborative interactions.

Much more to be added here… This is just a placeholder start.

What is Program For The Future?

What is “Program For The Future”?

PFTF originally was the 2008 Conference held December 9,10 208 at the San Jose Tech Museum. The organizers included: Mei Lin Fung, Valerie Landau, Eileen Clegg, Darla Hewett, Joel Orr, Robert Stephenson, Bob Ketner, and Sam Hahn. This conference was held on this date because it was the 40th anniversary of the MOAD. The event was attended by notables such as Steve Wozniak, Alan Kay, Andy van Damme, Ted Nelson, Peter Norvig, … and Doug himself.
PFTF is the name associated with a series of conferences starting with 2008, but including 2010, 2013, and upcoming: 2015 and 2018.
- 2010 Was organized by Eileen Clegg, Mei Lin Fung, and Sam Hahn
- 2013 Was organized by Dino Karabeg and Sam Hahn
- 2015 Will be organized by Frode Hegland, Kennan Salinero, Pavel Shukla, and Sam Hahn
PFTF was the (now lapsed) LLC name for a legal entity that was created to manage assets and liabilities associated with event organization (original managing partners: Eileen Clegg, Darla Hewett, Sam Hahn).
PFTF is the name of a community of individuals who remember and honor Doug and his achievements, and support the general direction of developing collective capability that Doug used as a research agenda.
PFTF is a set of principles (curated by Sam Hahn) that include those most pertinent to those driving Doug’s work. They are:
- Address Planetary Issues
- Scale Our Collective Capability
- CoEvolve our Tool-Systems and Human-Systems
- Bootstrap
- Grow a Community
- Spawn Inter-Supporting Initiatives
- Improve the Improvers (Apply ABC Model)
- Inspired and Guided by Doug Engelbart

What is Tweach?

Tweach is an experiment in crowdsourcing life lessons, HOWTO’s, etc. and an attempt to leverage “big data” to come up with how we can guide ourselves and our next generations, based on what previous generations have learned and passed on. It’s an attempt to use Twitter (mostly, though other social media forums could work as well) to share what we learned when.

Proposed Hashtags:

#WhenIwas1
#WhenIwas2
#WhenIwas3
…
#WhenIwas29
…
#WhenIwasInMy20’s
#WhenIwasInMy30’s
#WhenIwasInMy40’s
#WhenIwasInMy50’s
…
#WhenIGraduatedHS
#WhenIGotBS
#WhenIGotBA
#WhenIGotMS
#WhenIGotMA
#WhenIGotPhD
#WhenIGotFired
#WhenIGotHired
#WhenIGotMarried
#WhenIGotDivorced
#WhenMyDogDied
#WhenMyWifeDied
#WhenMy…
#WhenI…
… lots to be defined

Each of us posts what we learned, with one of these tags. Once enough of us do this, there’s lots to be done with “big data” and pattern analysis to compile very interesting complement to “wikipedia”. Obviously this grows and morphs over time and contributions.