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Last page of Chapter 4: Cognition as a biological phenomenon.
I maybe, finally understand there are they getting to with all that talk bout ... something.

Authors, in their own words are "[..] engaged in linguistic activity. In using language, we are not transmitting information, or describing an external universe, but are creating a cooperative domain of interactions."

... they are only succeeded in "not transmitting information" with me.

> Rejecting the metaphor of information processing as the basis for cognition, he replaces the question "How does the organism obtain information about its environment?" with "How does it happen that the organism has the structure that permits it to operate adequately in the medium in which it exists?"

.... Things man will do instead of going to therapy ...

Understanding so far is below 1%

Finished chapter on the state of affairs of Muslim communities before the war. I think I can see the problem now. Makes me reflect on Nassim Taleb, Lebanon Civil War as an example of "black swan" no one could imagine or predict. What was a stupid example. Lebanon was more of a huge bong with a glowing red display counting minutes down before finally exploding.

Finished the first character on Lebanon Christians. Knowing very little about Lebanon, I'm not going to take the portrayal of Maronites at face value, even knowing about Shatila and Sabra from other sources, but that portrayal was brutal.

Rereading the book. First time around, almost every idea was new to me, and I did not absorb much of it. We only understand things in the context of what we already know. Glad to revisit the book again.

soon I get back to you

I probably should start for the beginning

This is one of the history books i've read. Goes well after The Dream Machine

Is this a joke? It's not funny.

Painstaking description of the framework, with the most bizarre choice of notation imaginable.

More confusing notions and notations. Keep it locked.

One can form domain-specific [[pattern language of services]] (AWS, Azure). The consist of low-level patters (storage, compute) to build higher- (identity, CDN) and higher-level services (Spotify, Netflix).

#💭 Not sure that architecture specific patterns of Christopher Alexander - from windows level to region level is the same language. Is there an actual connection between levels?

end of chapter 2. idk, author is introducing incredibly backwards vocab to think about services: artifacts, events, resources, capabilities, shortfalls and shortcomings, X for affordance, Y for performance (which should be named executions). What is happening? Takeaways: define the 'whys' and the 'soul' of service not to loose yourself in overcomplicated service scripts. Always look at the whole AND parts.

How we have definition or services (we divided the world into services and non-services) we will throw away the rest of the world. Off we go.

End of chapter 1.

"But services are still products."

"Outcome is what we pay for and experience is what with pay with"
Disagree that We pay for both, we pay with the resources we have. Otherwise it would be bad business for providers.

Definition of service:
Service are performances and affordances producing outcomes that satisfy a set of customer needs.

Performances a.k.a. executions.
Affordances in a J.J. Gibson's definition. Environment makes something available to someone who is capable to perceive the information.