253. Organizing Systems

2024-08-08

“Organization” is a technology, and as with many technologies, it embodies a set of values.

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  1. The Search for the Perfect Periodic Table (Cottier, C.) - https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-search-for-the-perfect-periodic-table
  2. Metadata (Gartner, R., 2016) - http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-40893-4
  3. The discipline of organizing (Glushko, R. J., 2013) - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bult.2013.1720400108
  4. Debt: The First Five Thousand Years (Graeber, D., 2009) - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-debt-the-first-five-thousand-years
  5. The Utopia of Rules (Graeber, D., 2015) - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-utopia-of-rules
  6. All maps lie. These 2 maps from the Cold War demonstrate how - Big Think (Jacobs, F., 2023) - https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/all-maps-lie-cold-war/
  7. Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal (Maiberg ·, E., 2024) - https://www.404media.co/google-is-the-only-search-engine-that-works-on-reddit-now-thanks-to-ai-deal/
  8. How to Lie With Maps (Monmonier, M., 1991) - https://lecturasurbanas.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/monmonier_how-to-lie-with-maps.pdf
  9. Amazon’s Open Secret (Ovide, S., 2021) - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/18/technology/amazon-reviews.html
  10. The Periodic Spiral of Elements (Peña, M. R. & Guerra, J. Á. G., 2024) -
  11. The periodic spiral of elements (Rodríguez Peña, M. & García Guerra, J. Á., 2024) - https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10698-024-09510-4
  12. Stowe’s A Physicist’s Periodic Table (Stowe, 1929) - https://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt_database.php?PT_id=38
  13. Fake patient reviews are making it increasingly hard to seek medical help on Google, Yelp and other directory sites (Sydell, L., 2021) - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/06/04/fake-medical-reviews-google-zocdoc-trustpilot/
  14. How merchants quietly use Facebook to flood Amazon with fake reviews (Timberg & Dwozkin, 2018) - https://www.seattletimes.com/business/how-merchants-quietly-use-facebook-to-flood-amazon-with-fake-reviews/
  15. Types of periodic tables (Wikipedia, 2024) - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Types_of_periodic_tables&oldid=1221205095
  16. Mercator projection (Wikipedia, 2024) - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mercator_projection&oldid=1234632626#Further_reading

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