Governance
An annotated collection of 6 books & papers on governance, spanning 2024 to 2026. Featuring works by Primavera De Filippi, Alan L. McCann, Andrew J. Peterson and 3 more — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Blockchain Governance
De Filippi, a leading researcher on blockchain governance at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, addresses one of the most pressing questions in digital organisation: how do you govern systems without traditional hierarchies…
The Two Boundaries: Why Behavioral AI Governance Fails Structurally
McCann's central move is elegant and underexploited: Rice's theorem (1953) already proves that no behavioral layer added on top of a Turing-complete system can ever fully govern its effects — the gap between what a syste…
AI Governance under Political Turnover: The Alignment Surface of Compliance Design
Peterson frames a problem that most AI governance literature ignores: compliance layers built to make algorithmic decisions reviewable can also be gamed by successive administrations who learn to satisfy the form of over…
The Division of Understanding: Specialization and Democratic Accountability
Bonomi takes a well-established result from production economics — that specialization raises output — and traces its civic cost: when cross-domain knowledge concentrates in a small integrator class, electoral competitio…
More Than 25 Years of CRAN
CRAN is the package repository that makes R possible — over 20,000 packages maintained by volunteers using processes that have evolved organically over 25 years. Hornik and Ligges provide a rare institutional history of…