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Self Organization
An annotated collection of 2 books & essays on self organization, spanning 1995 to 1997. Featuring works by Stuart Kauffman, Eric Raymond — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
Stuart Kauffman, 1995 · Oxford University Press
Kauffman, a theoretical biologist at the Santa Fe Institute, argues that self-organisation is a fundamental force in nature alongside natural selection — that order emerges for free in complex systems and that evolution…
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Eric Raymond, 1997 · Essay, later O'Reilly Media (1999)
The founding essay of the open-source movement. The thesis: the decentralised, seemingly chaotic model (the bazaar) produces better software than the planned, controlled one (the cathedral). Raymond codifies what Linux p…