2025 January

Atte Juvonen

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2024 July

Controlling a complex system is rarely as effective as allowing it to self-organize: markets work better than planning committees; diverse ecosystems are more robust than monocultures. What would it mean to apply this idea to education?

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2023 July

When I’m being first-order productive, I’m programming: creating and interacting with a system. This first-order productivity is great, but it isn’t discoverable for others: there’s generally a high bar to entry for comprehending another person’s work when it’s expressed solely as a structured program. Second-order productivity is when I’m writing about programming, or about systems. This kind of productivity is generally more accessible and distributable, and forms most of the content of this blog!

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