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cybernetics

The first rule of communication systems theory fight club…

It took me a long time and much exasperation to recognise and acknowledge that the first rule of communication systems theory club is: do not tell people about the theory. Not because the theory is secret. Because the theory is ineffective as information. People are not waiting for a better model of the system that […]

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memoir

Structural Exile

I grew up inside fracture. Not the cinematic kind, not the kind that produces easy narrative arcs of redemption, but the slow, dislocating kind that dissolves continuity. Family breakdown did not make me resilient or strong. It pushed me sideways, out of the main flow, and then quietly out of sight. By my late teens, […]