May 8, 2026 | Design Table, Kitchen Table
Integration The condition in which the Three Minds are in sufficient functional relationship that energy arriving in the system can be metabolized into new capacity rather than shed as heat — the upstream state from which genuine response, genuine relationship, and...
May 7, 2026 | Design Table, Kitchen Table
Contracts & Crucibles Two Orientations Toward Relationships What It Feels Like First There are two fundamentally different ways to be in a relationship — and most people have never been offered language to distinguish between them. The first feels like managing...
May 4, 2026 | Design Table, Kitchen Table
What Override Owes Frontier AI Governance and the Discipline of Integration What Override Owes Frontier AI Governance and the Discipline of Integration What Override Owes Frontier AI Governance and the Discipline of Integration By Karen Judd Smith, with Claude The...
Apr 16, 2026 | Design Table
Autopoiesis: Are We Self-Creating? The capacity of a living system to continuously produce and replace its own components while maintaining its organization — to be, simultaneously, the producer and the product of its own processes. In plain language: self-creating....
Apr 15, 2026 | Design Table
Dissipative Structures Right conditions => Re-organizes into states of greater complexity A system that maintains itself far from equilibrium by continuously processing energy throughput — taking in order, doing useful work, and releasing entropy downstream — and...