<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">Merle,<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">From the book I am currently finishing:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:16pt;">Manifesto</span></span></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt;"> </span></span></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0.5in;margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;">Every aspect of human life — how we work, play, live, and love; how we define
our relationships with each other and with our environment — have been, and continue
to be, shaped by computers and the software that drives them.</span></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0.5in;margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"> </span></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0.5in;margin-left:0.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;">Those entrusted
with the power and the responsibility of creating computer-software artifacts
and systems must recognize that their efforts transcend simple careerism and
professionalism and rise to the level of a calling — one guided by a set of Core
Principles:</span></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0.5in;line-height:115%;"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"> </span></span><br></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0.5in;margin-left:1in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:-0.5in;line-height:115%;"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"><span style="">I-<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-language-override:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-variation-settings:normal;font-palette:normal;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";"><span class="size" style="font-size:7pt;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;">Humans
First. Everything is done on behalf of human beings, by human beings.</span></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0.5in;line-height:115%;"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"> </span></span><br></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0.5in;margin-left:1in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:-0.5in;line-height:115%;"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"><span style="">II-<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-language-override:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-variation-settings:normal;font-palette:normal;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";"><span class="size" style="font-size:7pt;"> </span></span></span></span>Businesses,
organizations, governments, and associations are <i>Living Systems </i>in
exactly the same way as socio-cultural, biological, and ecological systems are <i>Living
Complex Adaptive Systems.</i></span></span><br></p><div style="font-family:Arial;"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"><i></i></span></span><br></div><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0.5in;margin-left:1in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:-0.5in;line-height:115%;"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"><span style="">III-<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-language-override:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-variation-settings:normal;font-palette:normal;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";"><span class="size" style="font-size:7pt;"> </span></span></span></span>Effort
should focus on the production and introduction of appropriate ‘artifacts’ into <i>Living Systems</i>, to improve, enhance, or amend them.</span></span><br></p><div style="font-family:Arial;"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"></span></span><br></div><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0.5in;margin-left:1in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:-0.5in;line-height:115%;"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"><span style="">IV-<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-language-override:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-variation-settings:normal;font-palette:normal;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";"><span class="size" style="font-size:7pt;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;">Computer-software
artifacts, in all cases, must be designed to augment, extend, enhance, or
support human abilities.</span></span><br></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"> </span></span><br></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0.5in;margin-left:0.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:16pt;">* * * * * * *</span></span></span><br></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0.5in;margin-left:0.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"> </span></span><br></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0.5in;margin-left:0.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;">The concepts and principles of Software Engineering
coupled with the assumption of development as a Production Process governed by rigid
Project Management practices; that have dominated development for the past
fifty plus years are inadequate and often antithetical to the goals of this
manifesto.</span></span><br></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0.5in;margin-left:0.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"> </span></span><br></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0.5in;margin-left:0.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;">They must be replaced by a new discipline, a new
art:</span></span><br></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0.5in;margin-left:0.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><span style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"> </span></span><br></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0.5in;margin-left:0.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%;" align="center"><i><span style="line-height:115%;"><span class="font" style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style", serif;"><span class="size" style="font-size:16pt;">Living
Systems Development</span></span></span></i><br></p><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">davew<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Wed, Jan 4, 2023, at 3:30 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="ltr"><div class="qt-gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_attr">From: <b class="qt-gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Lisa Schirch</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:lschirch@nd.edu" target="_blank">lschirch@nd.edu</a>></span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="qt-gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_attr"><div>Date: Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 12:20 PM<br></div><div>Subject: Conference Invitation: Designing Tech for Social Cohesion<br></div><div>To: <span class="qt-gmail_default" style=""><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Merle Lefkoff</span></span><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><div>Dear Colleagues,<br></div><div><div style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><p class="qt-MsoNormal">I am pleased to invite you to the <b>Designing Tech for Social Cohesion Conference on 23-25 February 2023 at San Francisco's Fisherman’s Wharf. </b> This conference is bringing together tech innovators, tech critics, and the peacebuilding community to explore new tech platforms useful to building social cohesion, including individual agency to participate in civic life, building bridges between divided groups, and supporting citizens in relating to governing institutions.<br></p><div><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Click here for the </span></span><a href="https://techandsocialcohesion.org/conference/" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Full Conference Agenda</a><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. And </span></span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-tech-for-social-cohesion-tickets-473427643827" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">click here to register.</a><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br></div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal">Please pass on this invitation to your networks. <br></p><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="qt-gmail_quote"><div><u></u><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;min-width:100%;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);line-height:1.6;"><div style="display:none;font-size:1px;color:rgb(255, 255, 255);line-height:1px;max-height:0px;max-width:0px;opacity:0;overflow-x:hidden;overflow-y:hidden;">Join us to explore a new generation of tech products that offer affordances and algorithms that promote prosocial content. <br></div><div style="color:transparent;opacity:0;font-size:0px;border-top-color:currentcolor;border-top-style:none;border-right-color:currentcolor;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-color:currentcolor;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-color:currentcolor;border-left-style:none;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1;max-height:1px;width:1px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px !important;border-right-width:0px !important;border-bottom-width:0px !important;border-left-width:0px !important;display:none !important;line-height:0px !important;"><img src="https://default.salsalabs.org/X7e7fd53d-c2c3-4e99-bf4d-caca77659fd4/4d84db72-958c-40ab-975a-2bf3bcbebae6"><br></div><table 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