Ontology

The first post in this series described how strategic abstraction becomes delivery avoidance. The second examined the practical and epistemological problems of starting - how designers defer entry...

This post was originally written in November 2024. It has since been revised to include cross-references to the companion Language, Frames, and Domain Understanding series - on case grammar,...

The previous post established what kinds of objects public services engage with - patients, cases, assessments, entitlements, relationships - and the different ways those objects can be defined, from...

The previous post introduced domain engineering - the design work of constructing the representational infrastructure that computational systems presuppose - and identified it as the series' central...