The federated wiki is an artificial knowledge archipelago which is informed by highly specialised contributors. This may render pages in the federation ostentably ununderstandable. As time passes, our understanding grows and we know how to reuse and remix the pages within our own production.
Chris Alexander closes his 1996 OOPSLA keynote with an unexpected call to action: apply programming's power to the generation of a living world. transcript 
An individual bounded context leaves some problems in the absence of a global view. The context of other models may still be vague and in flux.
We seek explanation for what a system does and why. Microservices complicate this aspiration when mixed technologies have been assembled over years by evolving teams for changing business purpose.
The Three R’s of Enterprise Security by Justin Smith from experience at Microsoft, Google, and Pivotal. Refreshing servers continuously gives intruders no time to deploy their hacks. medium
Hamilton and Friesen characterise instrumentalism and essentialism as general orientations displayed where technology (as used in online education) is discussed in journalism, business, in everyday representations and in academic research.
A bunch of questions about what a link can and cannot "do":
Women's Ways of Knowing is a book written by Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, and Tarule Googlebooks that reveals an alternative view of intellectual development to that posed by William G. Perry wikipedia
A collection of ideas is the result of Idea Mining. The place in which this happens is the idea mine.
Abstraction is changing the way something is represented in order to move it beyond its constraints.
Karl Marx on Alienation is particularly interesting given todays discussions around automation and mechanisation. In many ways labour has devolved back into 19th century in terms of its quality, impact and perhaps in more importantly in cost.
Alan Kay famously said “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” But how do we go about inventing a future that isn’t a simple linear extrapolation of the present?