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Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

🚀 Exciting Opportunity: Call for Ideas for quantum and data related to ESDI! 🛰️

I'm very happy to announce this new opportunity for a call for ideas related to ESDI. Submit your ideas now! #ESA #QuantumTechnology #DataManagement #DeepTech #ESDI

https://t.co/jTXm6IlkjO

Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

Great to be at the @esaBICch Demo Day, enjoying @Dr_ThomasZ‘s introductory remarks on entrepreneurship and looking forward to the highlights of the past year by Nanja Strecker. #swiss #space #ecosystem

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Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

Really great news on the Reading & Annotating front these days. @zotero 7 (Beta) just got a huge feature bump with first support for EPUB reading and annotation. Having this integrated the same ways a PDFs is really making research so much easier. #feature
https://t.co/r4DyafAsj1

Available for beta testing: Updated reader with EPUB/snapshot support and new annotation types

We're very excited to share something we've been working on for a while: a major upgrade to Zotero's reading and annotation capabilities.

forums.zotero.org

Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

what „difference in itself“ means for creativity and the power this „raw connection“ creates: „the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters.“ (Lorde, Sister Outsider, p. 111)

Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

Arguably, it designates the name of how we can begin to think that which hasn’t been imagined yet, the mechanism for change that isn’t modification within an existing regime.”

(Pont, Antonia. A Philosophy of Practising: With Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition, 2021., p. 105)

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Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

This new thought of difference – difference in itself – does not find and name what is different between existing concepts. It is a concept in itself.

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Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

It also reminds me of @AntoniaPont‘s „A Philosophy of Practising“ with its beautiful treatise of „practising“ who writes the following on „difference in itself“:

“[The] aim would be to think difference on its own terms.

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Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

„Within the interdependence of mutual […] differences lies that security which enables us to descend into the chaos of knowledge and return with true visions of our future, along with the concomitant power to effect those changes which can bring that future into being.

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Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

Hunting down the source of that fantastic quote lead me to the wonderful essay by Lorde: „The Master‘s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master‘s House“.

The paragraph just after the one @cyetain‘s quoting is also beautiful: https://x.com/cyetain/status/1429958516287098884

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Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

Was ich gefühlt feststelle: dem Gefühl nach wird v2.2 auf dem iPhone rascher und problemloser erkannt / gelesen als die „alte“ neue Version.

Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

Whatever: mit dem alten „neuen“ SwissPass habe ich nun einen praktischen FIDO2 Backup-Key den ich gut und gerne irgendwo sicher aufbewahre. Aber vernichten?! Nada! 🧐😊

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Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

Habe heute einen neuen “neuen” #SwissPass erhalten - v2.2. nachdem ich ja schon eine Weile mit dem alten “neuen” SwissPass unterwegs bin (#FIDO2 #passkeys #FTW) frage ich mich, was da an der Hardware wohl optimiert werden musste? 🧐🤷🏽‍♂️⁦@RailService⁩ ⁦@FIDOAlliance⁩

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Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

International intrigue is one of my favourite newsletters. A global affairs briefing that’s insightful, broad, and funny to read. #globalaffairs

https://archives.internationalintrigue.io/subscribe?ref=ve4doypoyc

Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

Was mich besonders beeindruckt: Die Integration geht so weit, dass dies im ApplePay Wallet direkt über die (konfigurierte) App eingerichtet werden kann. Well done, und nach dem Wechsel zu den Debitkarten schneller nachgereicht als erwartet! https://x.com/PostFinance/status/1660932400224903171

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Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

Das SBFI stellt ein! Bist du daran interessiert, in meinem Team den Programmbereich Satellitennavigation zu betreuen und Unterstützung in Industrie- und Technologiefragen zu leisten? Dann schau dir die folgende Stellenausschreibung an:

https://t.co/BjsmOpfnjq #team #space

Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

An old, but good one. Very often, scary situations in life have to do with perspective, too.

“The odds of a plane crashing from turbulence are essentially zero, so I sit and enjoy it. It’s like a ride at an amusement park.” - Seth Godin, Linchpin

Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

To me, pace layering also offers a fascinating lens on the work and thinking of people like @debcha („caring for infrastructure“ vs „the fashion of making“), @swardley (layers in value chain maps), to Christopher Alexander‘s 15 Fundamental Properties and Nikos Salingaros‘ work.

Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

Finally looking at, and taking the time to go through, @stewartbrand’s writing has instantly helped me clarify quite a few confusions about me, (my) life and things I had difficulty connecting to each other. 😊

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Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

Although: this might feel uncomfortable, as we tend to think in these exact categories („jobs“, „layers“) ourselves, most of the time…

Which brings me to my last point: Thanks, @calebmeredth for having surfaced the „Pace Layering“.

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Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

and less focused on an outcome („job“ or „layer“) and the gaps to close to get there.

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Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

In the end, we should not fool ourselves: The kids might still end up starting in „fashion“, maybe to our own horror as we probably have gotten more interest by then in the slower paced layers.

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Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

With pace layering and the question of our kid’s future lifes and occupations in mind, you‘d reframe the question such that the kids rather think about their „direction of travel“ in the now while having the different layers and the stories they want to see emerge there in mind.

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Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

Rather than trying to „define the ideal future state, and [trying] to close the gap.“, complex systems require „describing the present and see what you can change,“ and „[defining] a direction of travel, not a goal“. (From https://youtu.be/MsLmjoAp_Dg)

Dave Snowden - How leaders change culture through small actions

youtu.be

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Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

IMHO, this is an „observable direction of change“, inspired by a wish to make a longer lasting difference than one of pure fashion. Which brings me to the idea of „vector target“ or „Vector Theory of Change“ that @snowded and @TheCynefinCo are writing and speaking about a lot:

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Johann @johannrichard.bsky.social · Dec 22

Interestingly enough, @stewartbrand mentions (e.g. in “Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning.” https://doi.org/10.21428/7f2e5f08) that we tend to be more into „fashion“ when we‘re younger – and move to interest in the slower paced layers when getting older.

Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning

Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six significant levels of pace and size in a robust and adaptable civilization.

doi.org

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