Sir Robert Burbridge
Research, thinking, & work
Some artifacts of my thinking and living. This is a repository for myself and others to track my thoughts and views over time.
Domains of Interest
I see a cherub that sees them.
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Wisdom
The Ways of Things
The way of the Way is a kind of cutting — and sewing together what was cut.
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Understanding
The Worlds Within
Apprehending and comprehending. Apprehending receives the world as it is projected into us. Comprehending is reshaping ourselves to contain it.
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Systems
Dimensional Decomposition
The systems I’m interested can be modeled as compositions of orthogonality: dimensions that can be extracted and recombined in part or in whole.
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Craft
To Make and to Become
The lines between doing, making, and becoming are tenuous, I think.
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Meaning
Read as claims
Scripture, Kierkegaard, Aquinas, Augustine, myth — taken as things that assert something and ask something, not as furniture.
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Social
Discourses and Interactions
A repository of artifacts generated with others — mostly friends — or for others.
Others
- Discernment
- Prayer
- Ontology
- Physics
- Etymology
- Naming
- Taxonomy
- Modularity
- Specifications
- Architecture
- Interoperability
- Openness
- Entrepreneurship
- Governance
- Fairness
- Generosity
- Rules
- Constraint
- Games
- Storytelling
- Atmosphere
- Character
- Perspective
- Strangers
- Belonging
- Community
- Americana
- History
- Language
- Russian
- Repair
- Martial arts
- Discipline
- Slowness
- Nuance
- Precision
Things being made
Specification first; conforming implementations after. Some finished, some deliberately not yet.
- scripture.livingStudy The Bible for engineers: scripture rendered as claims one can act on, with the reasoning left in view rather than tidied away. scripture.living →
- byreResearch A specification-first substrate for coordinated work: some twenty interlocking specifications, with reference implementations beside them. byre.dev →
Recent writing
All of it →Slow, and long, and unhurried about arriving.