By Aram & the Algorithms. A Field Rule for Reformers Carrying Power Tools Artificial intelligence arrives at the institution carrying marvelous tools and very little institutional memory. It encounters a review step, a junior assignment, a duplicated spreadsheet, an awkward handoff, a committee meeting, a professional boundary, a pause before approval — and asks the…
By Aram & the Algorithms. The Smallest Model That Doesn’t Lie Organizations adopting artificial intelligence are understandably reaching for Occam’s razor. Strip away the theatrical claims and the speculative futures, and ask what remains: which task improves, by how much, at what cost, and who is accountable for the result. This discipline is valuable. The…
By Aram & the Algorithms. When AI Can Cook Faster Than We Can Digest We are entering an age in which ideas can be generated faster than people, institutions, or cultures can learn what to do with them. A large language model can produce a new framework before breakfast, three alternative operating models before lunch,…
Navigating complex systems requires knowing where you stand within them — and having the agility to shift positions strategically. A framework for systems-change practitioners.
What a Surfer, a Beach, and 100,000 Trees Teach Us About Intervention Design.
A candidate “underlying grammar” of how systems actually change.
Those who do not see, cannot know. Those who do not know, cannot lead.
Four RFPs for a science ecosystem that grows stronger under pressure, not weaker.
An introduction to IDT — a framework for understanding how top-down, middle-out, and bottom-up forces shape society, and how designers can navigate and influence systemic change.
What if your social network was organized around shared ecosystems rather than shared interests? Aram and the Algorithms imagine CHORDA.