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
- Dec 30 Notes on Mirowski on Neoliberalism
- Dec 26 Notes on Leveraging Open-Source Tools for Collaborative Macro-energy System Modeling Efforts
- Dec 22 Thoughts on Social Ownership and Energy Democracy
- Dec 12 Notes on Philosophical Anthropology, Ethics and Policital Philosophy in an Age of Impending Catastrophe
- Dec 02 Notes on Measurement Fundamentals: A Pragmatic View
- Nov 24 Thoughts on The Relational Turn
- Nov 24 Thoughts on Energy Democracy Theory
- Nov 21 Thoughts on Energy Democracy Workshop
- Nov 21 Thoughts on Nature, Society and Justice in the Anthropocene
- Nov 21 Thoughts on an Energy Democracy Workshop
- Nov 21 Notes on Quality of Measurement Results
- Nov 21 Thoughts on the Role of an ISO in Energy Democracy
- Nov 14 Notes on Moving Breakthrough Energy Data to PostGIS Using R
- Nov 08 Notes on Distributed Optimization and Control Algorithms for Electric Power System
- Oct 27 Thoughts on Ecosocialism, Ecological Civilization, Process Philosophy
- Oct 27 Thoughts on Financialization of Utilities
- Oct 27 Thoughts on Open Systems and Game Semantics
- Oct 22 Notes on Algebraic Julia
- Oct 14 Notes on A General Theory of Self-Similarity
- Oct 13 Notes on 2020 NREL Workshop on Autonomous Energy Grids
- Sep 25 Thoughts on Value Flow Networks
- Sep 18 Thoughts on Value in Economics and Philosophy
- Aug 26 Thoughts on Distribution System Operators
- Aug 24 Notes on How I Became an Erratic Marxist
- Aug 18 Thoughts on cocategorical spatial data
- Jun 12 Notes on No Entailing Laws but Enablement in the Evolution of the Biosphere
- Jun 02 Thoughts on cocategorical spatial data
- Jun 02 Notes on Towards a formal framework for describing collective intelligence knowledge creation processes that ‘use-the-future’
- Jun 01 Notes on Memory evolutive systems: a mathematical model for the revival of natural philosophy
- May 26 Thoughts on validation and uncertainty in environmental chemistry
- May 23 Moving from Blogdown to Atom
- May 22 Thoughts on categorical resource theories and MEFA
- May 21 Notes on The Social and Natural Environment of Fossil Capitalism
- May 16 Thoughts on probability and materialism
- May 16 Notes on value, capital and nature
- May 07 Thoughts during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Mar 22 Notes while cleaning my work downloads folder
- Mar 11 Thoughts on Word Order
- Feb 10 Thoughts on Type Theory and Democracy
- Jan 06 DownIsTheNewUp's Best Albums of 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