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 Accounting, measurement, valuation
Jun 10 Measurement and modeling in/of/for democratic ecosocialism
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 of Measurement Systems
Apr 03 Thoughts on Measurement Systems and Analytical Procedures
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 Measurement Systems: Science, Theory, Engineering
May 23 Analogy between
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 Thoughts on Democracy and the Climate Emergency Workshop
Dec 06 Notes on Interview with NYDSA Energy Democracy
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