#foundational

41 items tagged foundational.

• Anna Hook — Artwork and writings by Anna Hook, my mother: greeting cards, ink drawings and short essays, kept here so they stay reachable.
• Childhood Memories — A reflection on childhood in post-war Italy: freedom, magpies, and life in a small town.
• Anna Hook — Bianca — A short film by Anna, with her ink drawings set moving.
• About Anselm — Creative technologist. Veteran developer, sometime investor, occasional team lead.
• Amazing — Books I gave five stars on Kindle. Sourced from my own ratings, not a guess.
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities — The founding text of human-scale thinking: observation over ideology, sidewalks over master plans.
• Intellectual — Systems, power, myth, story, collapse, and a couple of technical books that changed how I build.
• Essays — Longer thinking on systems, power, ecology, and design at human scale. Some are new, some are decades old and left as written.
• Beyond Human: Rewilding the Internet — The web was seeded as a monoculture. What would it mean to let it grow wild again, with many species, many niches, and edges that matter?
• Human-Scale Design — Borrowing from Jane Jacobs and Christopher Alexander: systems, like cities, work when they are legible and lovable at the scale of a person.
• Social Trust Graphs — Trust as a graph, directional, contextual and decaying, and what is lost when a system flattens it into one number.
• Avoiding Concentrations of Power — On the role of tokens, and the difference between a mechanism that distributes coordination and one that merely re-centralizes it under new branding.
• Helping People See Better — Simulation and modeling as prosthetics for intuition: tools that let a person feel the shape of a system too big to hold in their head.
• How Do You Organize Your Life? — How do we organize the critical data objects in our lives, and what would a better answer look like? A long look at the attention lost to the sheer work of examining things.
• Writing a Social Content Engine with RDF — Building a social content engine on RDF, in 2004.
• Artificial Life — Some Thoughts — Thinking about artificial life, written in 1996.
• Artificial Life: Biochemical Life and Limits — On biochemical life and its limits. March 1995, the earliest surviving piece.
• Poetry — Poets I was reading in 1996: Yvonne Trainer, Karen Connelly, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Eliot, with notes on why.
• Stepping Off a Plane — Late autumn, Bucharest, 2012. Arriving somewhere dressed for the wrong life.
• A Still Life with Midjourney — My mother Anna's creative practice, up until her death, and what the new image machines do to that lineage.
• Eulogy for a Dog — We had to put down a family pet.
• Our Uneasy Relationship with Knowledge — A survey of the kinds of knowledge we have, how we feel about them, and what new technologies like the web do to that.
• Anselm Hook — Recent things: writing, travel, projects, notes, newest first.
• An Email Thread With My Dad About Gravity
• Notes — Short things. Half-formed thoughts, kept small on purpose.
• Everything I build is event-driven now
• Writing-on-Stone — Hoodoos on the Milk River and the largest concentration of rock art on the North American plains.
• Argentina, 1999 — Theo and me, 1999.
• Mexico — A caving expedition to Chiapas with the Alberta Speleological Society, written up at the time, with thirteen photographs.
• Orbital Foundation — The implementation side: the primer, the late-binding event bus, filespace, streams, a server shim, the declarative volume renderer and orbital-sim.
• Press & Interviews — Other people writing about, interviewing, or introducing me, and a few talks. Links out; the work itself lives elsewhere on this site.
• Design Fiction: Anselm Hook, “Slowcode” — Bruce Sterling's Beyond the Beyond covering Slowcode: writing less, slower, and meaning it.
• Interviewed by Tish Shute — A long-form interview on augmented reality, the browser, and the shape of a spatial web.
• Orbital Foundation — A late-binding, data-driven toolchain: an event bus, declarative 3D, and a manifest pattern where a whole app is a list of files.
• Lightsuit — Wearable LED fashion, hand-built for Burning Man 2011: 300 addressable lights, an Arduino, and a lot of sewing.
• Interviewing Jennifer Hook — A family interview.
• Whitney Timberline — Climbing out through the timberline on Mt Whitney, the trip for my 50th birthday.
• Whitney Forester Hike, Day 3 — Day three, over Forester Pass, on the Mt Whitney trip for my 50th birthday.
• Grand Uncle Gerard — Family history, recorded.
• Family Archive — VTS 01 1 — Transferred home footage.
• Family Archive — VTS 01 2 — Transferred home footage.