The Notebook

Essays, notes, and working thoughts on technology, democracy, and economic organization. The research behind the projects.

2026

2025

Nov.28 Sovereignty, Solidarity, Sustainability
Nov.27 Generalized Constrained Dynamic Modeling for the Energy Transition
Nov.26 Thoughts on Digital Twins
Nov.13 Notes on Beyond Bayesian Accuracy
Nov.10 Socialist informatics
Nov.04 Axiomatic method and formal category theory
Oct.20 Game Semantics and Game Theory
Oct.17 Relational quantum mechanics and semiotics
Oct.10 Transdisciplinarity, Institutional Analysis, Adversarial Risk Analysis
Aug.26 Transdisciplinarity, democracy, semiotics
Aug.04 Parallels between govern and measure
Jul.28 Adjoint logic and digital municipal socialism
Jul.15 Towards an adjoint logic of systems
Jul.09 Compositionality in actor-based informatics
Jun.10 Measurement and modeling in/of/for democratic ecosocialism
Jun.10 Accounting, measurement, valuation
Jun.03 Approximate dynamic programming and reasoning language models
May.19 Why study sociology
May.13 Thoughts on creative action and measurement systems
May.09 Notes on The Evolution of Semiotic Self-Control
May.07 Notes on evidence-based economics
May.01 Thoughts on Linking Categorical Systems and Measurement
Apr.21 Thoughts on The Big Picture
Apr.17 Notes on A Relational Theory of Measurement
Apr.15 Notes on Semiotic Information Quality
Apr.14 Viable systems, biological organization, message passing
Apr.03 Thoughts on Measurement Systems and Analytical Procedures
Apr.03 Thoughts on Measurement of Measurement Systems
Mar.18 Thoughts on Measurement Systems
Mar.12 Thoughts on Creative Democracy and Citizens' Assemblies
Feb.11 Thoughts on Mathematical Informatics
Feb.01 Bogdanov and self-organization
Jan.21 Abstract for Multi-Agent Simulation for Cyber-Physical-Social System Design
Jan.15 Thoughts on Systems and Index
Jan.14 Notes on Technology as Capital
Jan.01 Resolutions on New Year's Day

2024

Dec.24 Thoughts on the purpose of purpose
Dec.04 Notes on Representing Knowledge and Querying Data using Double-Functorial Semantics
Oct.30 Notes on Rethinking Regulation
Oct.29 Notes on The Semiotic Roots of Worldviews
Oct.16 The Arbinger Institute and Vulgar Pragmatism
Oct.01 Notes on responsibility
Aug.20 Thoughts on critical accounting
Aug.01 Notes on mathematics, narratives and life
Jul.16 Notes on Measurement Across the Sciences, Chapter 2
Jul.09 Notes on systemics
Jul.09 Notes on measurement systems project
Jun.26 Notes on agency
May.24 Notes on Enactivism and Pragmatism
Apr.07 Thoughts on systems, semiotics, dialectics
Mar.30 Notes on Technical Infrastructure for Energy Modeling
Mar.26 Revisiting categorical semiotics
Mar.12 Dewey's identification of democracy, intelligence and science
Feb.23 Open Energy Analysis Project Notes
Feb.13 Recent Library Categories on SemanticScholar
Feb.08 AlphaGAT Notes
Feb.03 Some Thoughts on the Category of Thoughts
Jan.27 Notes on Colored/Guarded Petri Nets
Jan.24 Spans, Relations, Graphs
Jan.20 Cognitive Language Agents for the Planetary Emergency Response Network

2023

Dec.31 Journal Entry
Dec.31 Journal Entry
Nov.23 Notes on the Power of the Sacred
Oct.10 Compositionality
Oct.10 Compositionality
May.23 Analogy between
May.23 Measurement Systems: Science, Theory, Engineering
May.21 Speculative grammar in reflexive graphs
May.20 Municipal digital socialism
Apr.06 Journal Entry
Apr.02 Logic in color
Mar.04 Journal Entry
Mar.01 Journal Entry
Feb.10 Journal Entry
Jan.26 Journal Entry
Jan.17 Entry
Jan.11 Entry
Jan.11 Entry

2022

Nov.12 Entry
Nov.12 Entry
Oct.26
Oct.19 Implementing Category Theory
Oct.12 Thoughts on Untitled
Oct.10 Notes on the Logical Foundations of Cognition
Sep.29 Thoughts on Pragmatism, Logic, Cognitive Science, Social Psychology
Sep.25 Thoughts on Quantitative Type Theory
Sep.06 Notes on Lean Production and Viable Systems
Sep.02 Thoughts on Cybernetic Capitalism and Pragmatic Socialism
Aug.18 Thoughts on Categorical Cybernetics
Aug.18 Thoughts on Categorical Cybernetics
Aug.07 Thoughts on Analytical Quality by Design
Jul.30 Notes on From Commodity Production to Sign Production
Jun.18 Thoughts on the Associated Mode of Electricity Production
Jun.06 Notes on Marxian Naturalism
May.25 Notes on A Model-Based Epistemology of Measurement
Apr.28 Notes on The Problematic Public
Apr.11 Thoughts on Bayesian Optics for Analytical Chemistry
Apr.10 Notes on Bayesian Updates Compose Optically
Apr.09 Notes on Compositional Active Inference 1
Apr.03 Thoughts on Critical Accounting
Apr.03 Thoughts on the Associated Mode of Provision
Apr.02 Notes on Scientists Warning on Affluence
Mar.29 Notes on Discursive Habits
Mar.02 Notes on Operadic Analysis of Distributed Systems
Feb.27 Notes on Political Economy of Car Dependence
Feb.26 Notes on Roots, Riots and Radical Change
Feb.05 Thoughts on Semiotics and Values Revisited

2021

Dec.23 Thoughts on Gold, Money and Dewey
Nov.20 Thoughts on Knowledge Commons and Common Knowledge
Nov.12 Notes on Pragmatism and Idealism
Oct.10 Notes on Riccardo Bellofiore
Oct.10 Notes on Imagination Unleashed
Aug.14 Thoughts on Semiotics, Social Intelligence, and Democracy
Aug.06 Notes on Categorical Origins of Entropy
Aug.04 Thoughts on Causal and Acausal Models in Energy Modeling
Jul.27 Notes on Algebraic Property Graphs
Jul.21 Notes on Imagination Unleashed
Jul.21 Notes on Algebra of Information in Big Data Processing
Jul.14 Thoughts on Citizen Science, Risk Management, Collective Intelligence, and Social Inquiry
Jul.08 Thoughts on Deterministic Cores
Jun.21 Notes on Generative Mechanisms
Jun.21 Notes on Generative Mechanisms
Jun.21 Notes on Dynamical Systems and Sheaves
Jun.02 Notes on Logical Information Theory
Jun.01 Notes on Active Inference Demystified
May.07 Notes on Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics
May.07 Notes on Beyond Subjective and Objective in Statistics
May.06 Notes on The Standard Addition Method Revisited
Apr.29 Notes on Weakly Informative Priors Random Effects
Feb.13 Energy Democracy as Democratic Method
Jan.23 Notes on Resources, Concurrency and Local Reasoning
Jan.17 Notes on Liberalism and Social Action
Jan.09 Notes on The Neoliberal Corporation
Jan.04 Notes on Resource Modalities in Tensor Logic

2020

2019

Dec.23 Thoughts on Open Energy Analysis
Dec.13 Thoughts on Democratic Planning and Collective Intelligence
Dec.06 Notes on Interview with NYDSA Energy Democracy
Dec.06 Thoughts on Democracy and the Climate Emergency Workshop
Dec.04 Thoughts on Black Friday Action
Nov.15 Thoughts on formal pragmatics
Nov.11 Notes on A category-theoretic approach to agent interaction
Nov.04 Thoughts on energy democracy and P2P accounting
Nov.03 Outline of categorical semiotics
Nov.02 Speech on Xcel rate case
Oct.31 Thoughts on bifibration as gesture
Oct.30 Thoughts on three to three
Oct.28 Thoughts on product and function
Oct.25 Notes on Critical Theory and Cognitive Sociology
Oct.25 Notes on Cognition and Recognition
Oct.23 Thoughts-on-democratic-inquiry-into-democracy
Oct.22 Thoughts-on-real-utopias
Oct.17 Notes-computational-theory-evidence-based-reasoning
Sep.28 Notes on The Idea of Socialism
Sep.04 Letter-to-cory-johnson
Aug.19 Thoughts-not-in-any-sense-a-marxist
Aug.16 Reflections on the meta-project *Ecology, Society, Semiotics*
Jul.24 Thoughts on quality and democracy
Jun.20 Thoughts on pragmatic ecosocialism redo
May.24 Notes on functional programming for modular bayesian inference
May.24 Thoughts on probability, type theory, category theory
May.08 Thoughts on composition extension lifting
May.08 Notes on Iconicity and Abduction
May.08 Thoughts on Corfield MHoTT Chapter 4
May.03 Notes on reviving the philosophy of geometry
May.03 Notes on homotopy type theory and the vertical unity of concepts in mathematics
Apr.29 Thoughts on the labor-process theory of value
Apr.26 Notes on measurement in biology is methodized by theory
Apr.09 Hopes for Idris
Apr.06 capitalism-as-cancer
Apr.05 Thoughts on Rho Calculus
Mar.10 notes on hegel's theory of the syllogism
Mar.09 Notes on M-C-M and the End of the Transformation Problem
Mar.07 Thoughts on Categorical Metrology
Feb.27 2019 Mission
Feb.25 Notes on Models for Polymorphism over Physical Dimensions
Feb.21 DEMoHoTT
Feb.20 Notes on the economic calculation debate
Feb.18 notes on the dialectic of organic/inorganic relations
Feb.11 Ecosocialism Theory Outline
Feb.06 Notes on I that is We
Feb.05 Notes on Information and Causality
Feb.05 Notes on Hegelian Resources for Contemporary Thought
Feb.04 Notes on Jerry Michalski on Trust
Jan.29 Notes on Reality and the Good in Broadly Platonic Idealism
Jan.22 why agapastic ecosocialism
Jan.21 Systematic dialectic and semiotic system
Jan.17 Thoughts on Pragmatism and Critical Theory
Jan.13 Notes on Nature in Spirit
Jan.11 Back to Mirowski
Jan.09 Notes on Meaning of Category Theory for 21st Century Philosophy
Jan.07 Notes on How to Be an Anticapitalist
Jan.02 New Year intentions

2018

Dec.20 Term and Propositional Logic
Dec.11 Semiotics and socialism
Dec.07 Does semiotics transcend the distinction between foundational and anti-foundational
Dec.04 Notes on Aquinas in the Development of Semiotics
Nov.30 Type theory for ecosocialists
Nov.24 Notes on Critique of Heaven and Earth
Nov.18 Notes on Functorality and Grammatical Role in Syllogisms
Nov.11 Notes on Hegel and Peircean Abduction
Nov.09 Sociotechnical Systems Design
Oct.24 Agapastic Ecosocialism
Oct.16 Compositionality as a norm
Oct.15 Notes on A Less Simplistic Metaphysics
Oct.13 Night at the Black Rose
Oct.11 Idealism, Materialism, Semiotics
Oct.07 DSA Membership Committees
Oct.04 Reading notes on value
Sep.30 How to proceed with 'Semeiotic of Economic Values'?
Sep.18 Democratize, Socialize, Nationalize
Sep.05 Bridging the data and document webs
Jul.23 Supersession Arguments
Jul.09 Modeling abductive reasoning
Jun.13 From Property to Trust
May.21 Logic, Natural, and Social Philosophy Interacting in Hegel
Mar.26 Dynamic epistemic logic in modal homotopy type theory
Mar.26 Does the road to categorical semiotics run through Hegel?
Mar.11 Notes on *Ecological Macroeconomic Models*
Mar.11 Thoughts on concepts of debt
Feb.26 Post
Feb.21 Semeiotic and Dialectic
Feb.18 Post
Feb.10 Wark on Karatani
Feb.07 Community, Commodity, Commons
Jan.27 A Hackers Manifesto
Jan.20 Peirce and Rosen on Final Causes
Jan.14 Modeling Data Models

2017

Dec.27 Latour and Wark
Dec.24 Strydom on the meta-cognitive order
Dec.20 Knowledge Representation Redo
Dec.13 Discourse ethics and the constitution
Dec.03 Gare on speculative-naturalism
Dec.02 Some philosophical meta-narratives
Nov.15 Notes on secondary sources for Peirce's semeiotics
Nov.15 K.-O. Apel on reflexive foundations
Nov.14 Notes on Stakeholder Theory
Oct.29 From Semiotic Categories to Categorical Semiotics
Oct.28 Sensus Communis and Regenerative Society
Oct.28 Workplace cooperatives and public services
Aug.24 Syllabus: Ecology, Society, Semiotics
Aug.08 On the gap between public and private
Aug.03 Workplace cooperatives and public services
Jun.28 Semiotics of accounting
Jun.26 Some other category theory approaches
Apr.10 Wage slavery and dominum
Apr.06 Pragmatic Ecosocialism
Feb.22 Kevelson on Money
Jan.22 Lincoln on labor

2016

Nov.27 Notes on Natural Law
Nov.25 Haskell plans
Nov.19 Towards the Three Color Platform
Aug.20 Remixing information
May.23 Categorical Semiotics
May.10 Robustness, Efficiency, and Economic Democracy
Mar.03 Categorical Laboratory Informatics
Feb.29 Categorical Informatics in Earth System Governance
Jan.30 Organized and Self-Organizing
Jan.19 Thinking About Smart Grid Projects
Jan.19 Energy democracy and digital socialism