Category Archives: chaordic

The life creating field between chaos and order—self-organizing, self-healing, and full of tangeld hierarchies and loops.

Luis von Ahn—Smart Games—Smart Software

Article in Automatiseringgids on Luis von Ahn‘s ESP Game—a.k.a. the Google Image Labeler—to smart tag images by human swarms. Ahn also created the spam-avoiding Captcha. Thank you very much Luis!

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Holacracy and chaorganization on votes

As a member of the Identity Commons mailing list for several years now I find many of the organizational conversations very interesting. Especially the dialogs on principles, articles, bylaws, organization, etc. I feel compelled to contribute in some way, but … Continue reading

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Natural Capital Institute

Eduard Povel tipped me on the Natural Capital Institute today—helping society move towards a socially just and environmentally restorative existence. All open source. Hurray! Wow, what a fine initiative. I’m going to contact them to find synergy between NCI and … Continue reading

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Co-creation: whoever has the smartest customers wins

Do consumer driven innovation, customer care and Wikinomics work? Well, at Procter & Gamble they do. Read CIO Magazine on Wikinomics. I’m a big big fan of co-creation and it’s been like this ever since the great Internet technologies like … Continue reading

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Aperspectival photography and imagery

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Martijn writes Wolfram’s Curl & Julia

Martijn, my son, reads a couple of pages from Stephen Wolfram’s “A New Kind Of Science (pages 189-191), takes an hour or two and writes a neat little Java program generating a Curl and a Julia. Cool. Program will be … Continue reading

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Integral Architecture—The Timeless Way of Building

You’re cordially invited to attend the CHE Salon on Integral Architecture, inspired by Christopher Alexander’s The Timeless Way of Building and The Nature of Order. May 11, Centrum Venwoude, Lage Vuursche. Free for friends of CHE. Succes en plezier Martien.

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April Wise Fools Day

April Wise Fools Day came to mind late 2005, in a dialog with Engbert Breuker, Chief Emotions Officer at and Founder of Pentascope. Go on and read the long story on April Wise Fools Day.

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One From Many by Dee Hock: Chapter 8-11

Added my notes from another three chapters.

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One From Many by Dee Hock: Chapter 1-7

Jotted down my highlighted text from chapter 1-7 reading Dee Hock’s exciting “One From Many—VISA and the Rise of the Chaordic Organization”.

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Focusing beyond CHE

Over the past few months, I have put most of my energy in the growth of the Center for Human Emergence Netherlands (CHE NL). One of the key events was Klaar om te Wenden, where over 900 people immersed themselves … Continue reading

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