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...
Apr 15, 2026 | Design Table, Kitchen Table, Transilience ABCs
Ascent What happens when a system meets disruption with the architecture in place — and reorganizes into something more capable than it was before. First, What It Feels Like You can probably recall one of these from your own life. Not the dramatic version that gets...
Apr 13, 2026 | Design Table, Kitchen Table, Transilience ABCs
Metabolism What makes something knowledge not just information. What It Feels Like First You’ve had both kinds of meals. The one that filled you up but left you, an hour later, vaguely depleted. Your stomach is no longer empty. Your hunger has stopped. And yet...
