Ivo
@velitchkov.eu
Independent consultant, author, trainer.
Interested in social systems and knowledge graphs.
newsletter: https://www.linkandth.ink
website: https://velitchkov.eu
Interested in social systems and knowledge graphs.
newsletter: https://www.linkandth.ink
website: https://velitchkov.eu
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Ivo
@velitchkov.eu
· Aug 26
Containers All the Way Down
Containment pervades life, from life's own self-creation to the tools for storage and the tools for thought.
www.linkandth.ink
Containment, besides being the architecture of our material world, is a fundamental organizing principle of life, language, and thought. This first essay reviews all kinds of containers, from the living cell to the physical and metaphorical containers we create. www.linkandth.ink/p/containers...
I have reviewed many #SHACL shape graphs over the last few years. There are some error patterns as well as exotic errors. And recently, I've noticed some very different patterns of LLM-generated errors. 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I have reviewed many #SHACL shape graphs over the last few years. There are some error patterns as well as exotic errors. And recently, I've noticed some very different patterns of LLM-generated errors. 🧵
Every piece of non-fiction makes three claims: main, supporting, and meta. Each is shaped by bias — self-serving, confirmation, appeal-to-authority.
But there are quieter ones too: the elegance bias and the God’s-eye-view bias.
And then there are the meta-claims…
www.linkandth.ink/p/the-claims...
But there are quieter ones too: the elegance bias and the God’s-eye-view bias.
And then there are the meta-claims…
www.linkandth.ink/p/the-claims...
The Claims Matrix
God, Beauty, and the Attribution Paradox
www.linkandth.ink
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Every piece of non-fiction makes three claims: main, supporting, and meta. Each is shaped by bias — self-serving, confirmation, appeal-to-authority.
But there are quieter ones too: the elegance bias and the God’s-eye-view bias.
And then there are the meta-claims…
www.linkandth.ink/p/the-claims...
But there are quieter ones too: the elegance bias and the God’s-eye-view bias.
And then there are the meta-claims…
www.linkandth.ink/p/the-claims...
Viability as a Temporal Process link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Viability as a Temporal Process: Experiential and Operational Time from Bergson to Beer - Philosophy of Management
This article addresses a conceptual omission in organisational cybernetics: the absence of a temporal criterion for viability. While Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model (VSM) defines viability as a…
link.springer.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Viability as a Temporal Process link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Infinité
Airelle Besson, Edouard Ferlet, Stéphane Kerecki · Aïrés · Song · 2017
open.spotify.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Atlas Press (@atlaspress) substack.com/@atlaspress/...
Atlas Press (@atlaspress)
6000 Years of World History in 1 Picture
substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Atlas Press (@atlaspress) substack.com/@atlaspress/...
Link&Think has a new look. 💄
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Link & Think | Ivo Velitchkov | Substack
Notes on systems and technologies. Click to read Link & Think, by Ivo Velitchkov, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Link&Think has a new look. 💄
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Circular economy, redefined.
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Circular economy, redefined.
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In Canada, @gandersocial.bsky.social’s equity crowdfund is really resonating.
It turns out that people want Canadian owned and run social media.
Very excited to see this!
It turns out that people want Canadian owned and run social media.
Very excited to see this!
Exgoose me? You’re funding Gander how?
We're inviting Canadians to become co-owners.
Over 1.5k Canadians have invested from $255 to $10K or more, totalling $1.2M so far!
Become an owner! Tell friends, family, frenemies... anyone who wants better socials in Canada 🇨🇦
frontfundr.com/gandersocial
We're inviting Canadians to become co-owners.
Over 1.5k Canadians have invested from $255 to $10K or more, totalling $1.2M so far!
Become an owner! Tell friends, family, frenemies... anyone who wants better socials in Canada 🇨🇦
frontfundr.com/gandersocial
November 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
In Canada, @gandersocial.bsky.social’s equity crowdfund is really resonating.
It turns out that people want Canadian owned and run social media.
Very excited to see this!
It turns out that people want Canadian owned and run social media.
Very excited to see this!
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November 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Cybernetics is not the Banana (Part 1) with @antlerboy.com is now on YouTube!
Link: youtu.be/qi7neufVcEc
Link: youtu.be/qi7neufVcEc
Cybernetics is not the Banana: Benjamin Taylor (Part 1)
YouTube video by Laksh Raghavan
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Cybernetics is not the Banana (Part 1) with @antlerboy.com is now on YouTube!
Link: youtu.be/qi7neufVcEc
Link: youtu.be/qi7neufVcEc
October 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
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The endless Rory book signing loop 🔁
We watched him sign 400 books this way...
We watched him sign 400 books this way...
October 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The endless Rory book signing loop 🔁
We watched him sign 400 books this way...
We watched him sign 400 books this way...
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Frédéric Forest
Paris - 1
January
2024
Paris - 1
January
2024
October 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Frédéric Forest
Paris - 1
January
2024
Paris - 1
January
2024
After CSV, JSON, and XML, the 2nd part shows how the same containment principles allows to view HTML, XLSX, MS Word, and PowerPoint as #RDF knowledge graph. And also how to query REST API's with #SPARQL so that one query gets data from different sources.
www.linkandth.ink/p/universal-...
www.linkandth.ink/p/universal-...
October 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
After CSV, JSON, and XML, the 2nd part shows how the same containment principles allows to view HTML, XLSX, MS Word, and PowerPoint as #RDF knowledge graph. And also how to query REST API's with #SPARQL so that one query gets data from different sources.
www.linkandth.ink/p/universal-...
www.linkandth.ink/p/universal-...
A more polished version now.
(to my surprise, this is the second most read post on Link & Think, and since it gets so much attention, I gave it a bit more too)
(to my surprise, this is the second most read post on Link & Think, and since it gets so much attention, I gave it a bit more too)
A new post on Link&Think in which I describe in detail how I use Roam Research for writing essays.
www.linkandth.ink/p/writing-wi...
www.linkandth.ink/p/writing-wi...
October 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
A more polished version now.
(to my surprise, this is the second most read post on Link & Think, and since it gets so much attention, I gave it a bit more too)
(to my surprise, this is the second most read post on Link & Think, and since it gets so much attention, I gave it a bit more too)
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Every time I bring up "zero-trust protocols" someone trots out this bit where they go "zero-trust systems are bad actually because society is built on trust and we want more trust not less" and the little voice in my head that goes "trust is expensive". We scale trust by doing more with less.
October 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Every time I bring up "zero-trust protocols" someone trots out this bit where they go "zero-trust systems are bad actually because society is built on trust and we want more trust not less" and the little voice in my head that goes "trust is expensive". We scale trust by doing more with less.
Now finishing the second part on Façade-X, which is the 5th essay in the Containment series, I remembered that my best attempt to explain #SPARQL for non-technical users also relied on containers:
www.strategicstructures.com?p=1889
www.strategicstructures.com?p=1889
October 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Now finishing the second part on Façade-X, which is the 5th essay in the Containment series, I remembered that my best attempt to explain #SPARQL for non-technical users also relied on containers:
www.strategicstructures.com?p=1889
www.strategicstructures.com?p=1889