All great leaders take people with them who can do the things they can’t do. #leadershipcrew

Nice to see the "substrate" analogy added to the repertoire.

Consider showing slides during taped talk🙏🏽

At or about 1:53:46 Yuliya Shtaltovna prompts a reference to an article referring to "assemblages, affordances and agency". Who was the author quoted? Poley? Foley? Sorry I didn't quite catch it. The Peter Ho Menagerie and distributed intelligence reference I was able to look up fine, thank you.

In short? 1 Do wider use case (required process) analysis, considering alternative/exception paths and the impact of unlikely events. 2 Elaborate your modular design to handle unlikely use case paths, so you don’t have to refactor the system when they happen. 3 The more “variety” you build in up front, the wider the range of black swan events your system will be able to handle. One might add? 4 Build in escape routes that hand control over to human beings when a use case cannot be completed?

Perhaps a Susan Sontag quote

Oh dear, the meta modernists are focused on a cultural imposition on society... model of decision-making and rationality, which they feel everyone else should adopt. Er... no. Oh dear, what an mis understood perspective.This approach that he is referencing is not understood by everyone, as it requires a certain way of thinking to grasp what it is.

Interesting but would be able to concentrate on it better if the speakers got rid of the verbal tic of inserting the phrase 'kind of' everywhere.

"Agencer" is french is not the process of assembling. Assembling is assembler in french and got the exact same meaning, it's also way more common in french that agencement. Agencement suggest an intention or relations stronger or less random than assemblage does. We use it for decorating an appartment for exemple and it holds the nuance of having organized something in a certain order whereas assemblage really suggest "put together". Brilliant presentation. Thanks again !

I've added References to the Video Description, for those inquisitive minds!

Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking Book by Tyson Yunkaporta

The danger of a single story | Chimamanda Adichie 2020 TED

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Thank you all for a nicely coherent deeper dive into assemblages. Are the presentation slides available anywhere per chance?

Dave and Alicia bickering gets super funny at times

This is simultaneously one of the most interesting and disturbing talks I've heard recently. Essentially the science of sophism and influence and propaganda ... as much as how to dispel the madness of crowds and misinformation memetic warfare.

Well explained,thanks