The Kihbernetics Institute

A couple of weeks ago, Yann LeCun posted his definition of a “world model” as used in AI on Twitter (@ylecun). The post had more than 400 K views, was…

I recently discovered the “Transcript” feature on Youtube and spent a couple of hours here and there editing the words Google’s AI automatically extracts from the original video. About 90%…

This is a “Living” Post where I plan to discuss the “Commons” and present examples of this “flat” organizational model, a bottom-up, emergent centuries-old method of organizing communities in the…

One of Gene Bellinger’s systems thinking archetypes on his Mental Model Musings website is about the difference between Leadership and Management. He provides both a structural view and a dynamical…

Warren Buffett says “This 1 Simple Habit Separates Successful People From Everyone Else”: “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to…

Bifurcation Diagrams A couple of decades ago, while learning about chaos and complexity, I started experimenting with my own bifurcation diagrams using huge spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel. As the base…

In this post, I propose an operational framework for Memetics by bringing the focus back on genetics where it all started. This will introduce a new paradigm in Memetics, that…

In an interesting document, Managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis. A field guide for decision makers inspired by the Cynefin framework created by Dave Snowden and Alessandro Rancati…

While rummaging through my old notes, I’ve found a document where I make an attempt to understand the OODA loop in the light of my Dynamical Systems Model (DSM). Here…

Ashby had a very peculiar relationship with self organizing systems. In his seminal paper “Principles of the self-organizing system” (pgs. 115-117) he writes this: The reason for such a statement…