Essays on how solutions behave once they meet people, institutions, technologies, and places. Open by default, because systemic change needs more capacity than any one studio.
Berry's criteria in working form: how to tell a fix from an improvement, and why the difference decides whether your solution survives contact with the system it enters.
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