Magic and Planning are two extremes of the same methodology.
If we understand the future as shaped by human and inhuman action rather than being predetermined, then, at any given moment, we can think of the future as a set of outcomes called "variety". We can imagine some of them, while others remain unknown or unthinkable.
Human action, from individual choices to the construction of global systems, plays out as a game where specific futures are prevented and the likelihood of desirable futures is maximized.
We cook a meal not just in direct reaction to hunger, but to avert a future in which we know we will feel hungry. The action of making a sandwich averts a future of hunger.
In the same way, social systems such as states, organizations, or institutions act to skew the odds of specific futures based on the values they embody.
Restricting the variety of futures to make our preferred future happen is called Planning. Humans do that, plants and animals do it too, and so do social organisms.
What happens when none of the foreseeable futures are desirable? What if, for a quirk of our perspective and knowledge, the variety is insufficient? Addressing this problem with planning, design, or tools of control won't work, because these are disciplines designed to restrict variety and cannot expand it.
The expansion of perceived variety is done through Magic.
Aleister Crowley defined magic as "the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will", because, for Crowley's definition, planning, technology, systems are a subset of Magic. It's the whole array of human devices to modulate variety.
In our cybernetic frame instead, we can think of Magic as just the tools necessary to expand variety, finding pathways where rational analysis can see none.
In politics, magic and planning must go hand in hand to create change not only in accordance to will or to reason, but create change also in accordance to principles of liberation: restrict the variety of oppressive futures in order to expand the variety of human and more-than-human life.
If we understand the future as shaped by human and inhuman action rather than being predetermined, then, at any given moment, we can think of the future as a set of outcomes called "variety". We can imagine some of them, while others remain unknown or unthinkable.
Human action, from individual choices to the construction of global systems, plays out as a game where specific futures are prevented and the likelihood of desirable futures is maximized.
We cook a meal not just in direct reaction to hunger, but to avert a future in which we know we will feel hungry. The action of making a sandwich averts a future of hunger.
In the same way, social systems such as states, organizations, or institutions act to skew the odds of specific futures based on the values they embody.
Restricting the variety of futures to make our preferred future happen is called Planning. Humans do that, plants and animals do it too, and so do social organisms.
What happens when none of the foreseeable futures are desirable? What if, for a quirk of our perspective and knowledge, the variety is insufficient? Addressing this problem with planning, design, or tools of control won't work, because these are disciplines designed to restrict variety and cannot expand it.
The expansion of perceived variety is done through Magic.
Aleister Crowley defined magic as "the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will", because, for Crowley's definition, planning, technology, systems are a subset of Magic. It's the whole array of human devices to modulate variety.
In our cybernetic frame instead, we can think of Magic as just the tools necessary to expand variety, finding pathways where rational analysis can see none.
In politics, magic and planning must go hand in hand to create change not only in accordance to will or to reason, but create change also in accordance to principles of liberation: restrict the variety of oppressive futures in order to expand the variety of human and more-than-human life.
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$30 per seat per month.
$1.4 million annually.
I called it "digital transformation."
The board loved that phrase.
They approved it in eleven minutes.
No one asked what it would actually do.
Including me.
I told everyone it would "10x productivity."
That's not a real number.
But it sounds like one.
HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.
I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."
They stopped asking.
Three months later I checked the usage reports.
47 people had opened it.
12 had used it more than once.
One of them was me.
I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.
It took 45 seconds.
Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.
But I called it a "pilot success."
Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.
The CFO asked about ROI.
I showed him a graph.
The graph went up and to the right.
It measured "AI enablement."
I made that metric up.
He nodded approvingly.
We're "AI-enabled" now.
I don't know what that means.
But it's in our investor deck.
A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.
I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."
He asked what that meant.
I said "compliance."
He asked which compliance.
I said "all of them."
He looked skeptical.
I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."
He stopped asking questions.
Microsoft sent a case study team.
They wanted to feature us as a success story.
I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."
I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.
They didn't verify it.
They never do.
Now we're on Microsoft's website.
"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."
The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.
He got 3,000 likes.
He's never used Copilot.
None of the executives have.
We have an exemption.
"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."
I wrote that policy.
The licenses renew next month.
I'm requesting an expansion.
5,000 more seats.
We haven't used the first 4,000.
But this time we'll "drive adoption."
Adoption means mandatory training.
Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.
But completion will be tracked.
Completion is a metric.
Metrics go in dashboards.
Dashboards go in board presentations.
Board presentations get me promoted.
I'll be SVP by Q3.
I still don't know what Copilot does.
But I know what it's for.
It's for showing we're "investing in AI."
Investment means spending.
Spending means commitment.
Commitment means we're serious about the future.
The future is whatever I say it is.
As long as the graph goes up and to the right.
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Horizontalism is a scam created by Birkenstock to sell more shoes.
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I gruppi di lettura sarebbero molto più interessanti se ci fosse un timer random su un telefono che ad una certa spara a tutto volume: "BASTA THEORY, MENAMOSE" e da lì per 5 minuti vale tutto.
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