About Doug McDavid

Doug McDavid is an Enterprise Architect, retired from IBM in 2009. He now maintains a web presence at enterprisology.com.

daviding: “Those who are more nostalgic about the days of shareware can…” January 22, 2021
Those who are more nostalgic about the days of shareware can look to the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/tucows
daviding: “For those who remember the rushing sound of a 2400bps modem …” January 22, 2021
For those who remember the rushing sound of a 2400bps modem connecting over an analog telephone line, the old BBS download sites have been obsoleted. https://www.engadget.com/tucows-downloads-has-finally-been-shut-down-103036388.html
daviding: “Did the board of MEC understand how a cooperative really wor…” January 21, 2021
Did the board of MEC understand how a cooperative really works? #MaxFawcett suggests that they forgot. https://thewalrus.ca/what-we-can-learn-from-the-fall-of-mec/
daviding: “What kind of world are we in, when a camera lens needs a sof…” October 3, 2020
What kind of world are we in, when a camera lens needs a software update to work with a new camera? (I am not a user of either system)https://petapixel.com/2020/10/01/sigma-shares-caveats-for-using-its-ef-lenses-on-the-canon-eos-r5/
daviding: “Very long article, oriented towards policy change. Issues sh…” September 4, 2020
Very long article, oriented towards policy change. Issues should be familiar to everyone on this platform (and appreciation of that is probably why you are here). #CoryDoctorow on Surveillance Capitalism https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59

Process-Function Ecology, Wicked Problems, Ecological Evolution | Vasishth | Spanda J | 2015
Understanding Process-Function Ecology by Ashwani Vasishth leads to luminaries in the systems sciences, including C. West Churchman, Eugene P. Odum and Timothy F.H. Allen.
The Innovation Delusion | Lee Vinsel, Andrew L. Russell | 2020
As an irony, the 2020 book, The Innovation Delusion by #LeeVinsel @STS_News + #AndrewLRussell @RussellProf shouldn’t be seen as an innovation, but an encouragement to join @The_Maintainers where an ongoing thought network can continue. The subtitle “How Our Obsession with the New has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most” recognizes actual innovation, as distinct from […]
Republishing on Facebook as “good for the world” or “bad for the world” (NY Times, 2020/11/24)
An online social network reproduces content partially based on algorithms, and partially based on the judgements made by human beings. Either may be viewed as positive or negative. > The trade-offs came into focus this month [November 2020], when Facebook engineers and data scientists posted the results of a series of experiments called “P(Bad for […]
1969, 1981 Emery, System Thinking: Selected Readings
Social Systems Science graduate students in 1970s-1980s with #RussellAckoff, #EricTrist + #HasanOzbehkhan at U. Pennsylvania Wharton School were assigned the Penguin paperback #SystemsThinking reader edited by #FredEEmery, with updated editions evolving contents.
1968 Buckley, “Modern Systems Research for the Behavioral Scientist: A Sourcebook”
Resurfacing 1968 Buckley, “Modern Systems Research for the Behavioral Scientist: A Sourcebook” for interests in #SystemsThinking #SocioCybernetics #GeneralSystemsTheory #OrganizationScience . Republication in 2017 hardcopy may be more complete.
Wholism, reductionism (Francois, 2004)
Proponents of #SystemsThinking often espouse holism to counter over-emphasis on reductionism. Reading some definitions from an encyclopedia positions one in the context of the other (François 2004).

20201/02 Moments February 2021
Limited excursions outside for the month, due to extreme cold weather, and the pandemic shutdown.
2021/01 Moments January 2021
Mild January weather during pandemic constraints, month ending with snowfalls and cold weather alerts.
2020/12 Moments December 2020
Approaching winter solstice, the temperature in Toronto hovers around freezing, and we see a mix of rain and snow.
2020/11 Moments November 2020
Day shortening and temperatures dropping meant bundling up for bicycling.
2020/10 Moments October 2020
Clear autumn near home in Toronto, extended with a family vacation within Canada to Vancouver, where the Covid rates are more favourable
2020/09 Moments September 2020
Discovering more of the neighbourhood, bicycling mostly in the mornings.

2019/04/09 Art as a discipline of inquiry | Tim Ingold (web video)
In the question-answer period after the lecture, #TimIngold proposes art as a discipline of inquiry, rather than ethnography. This refers to his thinking On Human Correspondence. — begin paste — [75m26s question] I am curious to know what art, or…Read more ›
2019/10/16 | “Bubbles, Golden Ages, and Tech Revolutions” | Carlota Perez
How might our society show value for the long term, over the short term? Could we think about taxation over time, asks @carlotaprzperez in an interview: 92% for 1 day; 80% within 1 month; 50%-60% tax for 1 year; zero tax for 10 years.Read more ›
2020/07/13 “Making Growing Thinking” |Tim Ingold (web video)
For the @ArchFoundation, #TimIngold distinguishes outcome-oriented making from process-oriented growing, revisiting #MartinHeidegger “Building Dwelling Thinking”. Organisms are made; artefacts grow. The distinction seems obvious, until you stop to ask what assumptions it contains, about the inside and outside of things…Read more ›
2020/04/09 “Can Ecological Economics Shape a Shock-Resistant Planet” | Herman Daly (web video)
In web conference, #HermanDaly says #EcologicalEconomics used to get attacked from the right, now it's from the left. Panel @revkin @jon_d_erickson @ktkish @sophiesanniti #TimCrowshaw #KatieHorner livestreamed #sustainwhat .Read more ›
2018/11/19 Niall Ferguson | “Networks and Power” |Long Now (web video + audio)
Complementing the idea of a @longnow , @nfergus provokes the challenge of a #shortthen as the online social media platforms distract the larger perspectives on history.Read more ›
2018/10/09 Dan Stokols, |Social Ecology, Systems Thinking, & Psychology | How to Save the World (web video + audio)
Social ecology and environmental psychology described @dstokols @Social_Ecology , interviewed by @katiepatrick . References #WilliamsJames on attention. Book on Social Ecology in the Digital Age released in 2018.Read more ›

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