Knowledge Art

One of the sessions at the Ames workshop was particularly problematic for the practitioners. In an oft-seen pattern, the discussion veered a...

This is the last of a series. Back to Part 7 Time moved on. By 2001, the original team of Compendium practitioners and developers at what wa...

This is part 7 of a series. Back to Part 6 Despite these exciting developments and collaborations, however, we still faced difficulty, and s...

This is part 6 in a series Back to Part 5 As we were puzzling about this paradox of having a powerful, successful, flexible technique that w...

This is part 5 of a series. Back to Part 4 We soon began to identify desired enhancements for the software, and tried to work with CMSI to b...

This is part 4 of a series. Back to Part 3 We (mainly Maarten Sierhuis and me) began experimenting with this approach. With growing excitem...

This is part 3 of  a series.  Back to Part 2 At the same time as our experiments with CM/1 were occurring, another thread in the lab was con...

This is part 2 of a series. Back to Part 1 Over the next few weeks in early 1992, a small coterie of lab members tried to build out discus...

I've talked about Compendium's early days in some previous posts, such as this . This summer I wrote a longer treatment for a worksh...

This article gives hope to those of us well past the prodigy stage. Gladwell writes about Cézanne, Ben Fountain, Mark Twain, Robert Frost, W...