David Ing

Mathematician Johannes Kepler says that you should date 37% of your candidates, and then marry the next one. This relates to 1/e .

> when is the optimal time to marry someone, assuming you want to maximize the happiness in your life? The answer, perhaps surprisingly, is to follow what’s known as the 37% rule: reject the first 37% of all possible choices, and then pick the very next one to come along whose potential exceeds the best of the 37% who came before. Although some will wind up passing over their optimal choice and others will choose a partner before ever meeting their best possible match, the 37% rule is the mathematically superlative strategy. [....]

> assuming you choose the optimal strategy for attacking this problem — rejecting the first 1/e (or 36.788%) candidate options and then choosing the first option that exceeds the best option you saw over that initial time — what are the odds that you will actually wind up selecting the overall best possible option?

> The answer, believe it or not, is also 1/e, or 36.788%

"Astronomer Johannes Kepler solved life’s hardest problem: marriage" | Ethan Siegel | September 26, 2023 at bigthink.com/starts-with-a-ban

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David Ing

The , , and distills decades of cutting-edge resilience science into nine critical Must-Knows refined through dialogue with decision-makers.

1. Resilience is critical for navigating accelerating risk
2. Resilience requires balancing the capacities to cope, adapt, and transform
3. Investing in resilience today reduces costs tomorrow
4. Resilience is a cycle of learning and innovation
5. Diversity is essential for resilience to thrive
6. Relationships among people and with nature build resilience
7. Governing and negotiating trade-offs is key to resilience
8. Empowering agency unlocks resilience
9. Address power imbalances to foster equitable resilience

Norström, Albert, Cibele Queiroz, Magnus Nyström, et al. 2025. _Resilience Science Must-Knows: Nine Things Every Decision-Maker Should Know about Resilience_. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1746637.

stockholmresilience.org/resear

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David Ing

sLab at reintroduced; Call for Participation to now in dance of (i) topics seeking participants, and (ii) participants seeking topics. coevolving.com/blogs/re-introd

Five-day event, May 10-15, 2026, in Toronto. problematiquedialogue.org

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David Ing

Slides + web video of "Problematique Dialogue + Conversation as Process and Connection" from Ontario from 2026-02-09. sLab at OCAD University is evolving Banathy Conversation from residency to urban campus. Advance Call for Participation for May.

coevolving.com/blogs/problemat

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David Ing

Web video of Ontario 2026-01-12, Shareback by participants of (i) , (ii) Anticipation in the Context of Today's PolyCrises with , and (iii) with @pluralistic and . Reflections by moderated by wiki.st-on.org/2026-01-12

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David Ing

Could Canada follow the lead of France in replacing the web conference software of Zoom and Teams with the project built on top of the open source LiveKit?

Would this be the information age Canada Post? A @pluralistic de-shittification?

github.com/suitenumerique/meet

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David Ing

Web video of short presentation and panel on “Curriculum Design and Development" with a focus on "Bridging the AI Gap" at -59.
coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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David Ing

Fundamentals of in management from seminars 2003-2006 archived by are now compiled in a YouTube playlist with a blog post of short abstracts.

Russell L. Ackoff seminars | 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 at daviding.wordpress.com/2025/12

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David Ing

OCAD University: Talk by @pluralistic on Jailbreaking Canada event, after second day of 3-day playshop with graduate students. Advocating that Canada should put our digital elbows up, and disenshittify our technology from corporate giants. Bad anti-circumvention laws mean we're blocked from modifying devices we own. (OCAD University, McCaul Street, Toronto, Ontario) 20251127

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David Ing

Web video of Pacing Changes: Seeing Living Systems as Rhythms for Finland by , hosted by . Shift in from default spatial-static to more processual-dynamic perspective, multiple layers, differing paces

coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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David Ing

Web video + research article on Pacing Changes, Appreciating Approaches to Systems and Designing for . Nine ways of from (more form+stability) to (more temporality+change). Conversation Studio at for October 18.
coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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David Ing

You might be interested, @144mb, in the lineage of philosophy in systems thinking as American pragmatism from Russell Ackoff and West Churchman, back through Edgar A. Singer Jr. to William James, and then forward to Stephen C. Pepper and Eric Trist. In Appendix 1, starting page 38, at coevolving.com/commons/2024-01

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David Ing

Web video of Tracing sLab’s Journey, and Reinvigoration with + at Ontario crossover to . Preamble to in-person workshop Friday, October 17 3:30-5:30pm 100 McCaul Street. Moderator
coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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David Ing

Web video applying Contextural Appreciative Learning on revising course with for winter 2025 program. Hellenic HSSS conference proceedings article includes reflections + student surveys guiding next iteration.
coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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David Ing

Web video + peer-reviewed article for 2025 of Rethinking for Learning: Philosophizing, Theorizing, and Methodizing reduces 6 years of research in 12 pages (+5 for references) and 23-minute video. Warning, it's dense!
coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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David Ing

Web video "Pacing Changes with Living Systems: Rhythmic threads in textures, rhythmic textures of threads" by at UK. Processual approach for 21st century
coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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David Ing

In the Fediverse, qoto.org looks to be fully federated, and I can read @yannlecun over here. I post rarely on threads.net , so I encourage friends to turn on the "Fediverse sharing" setting on their Threads accounts.

Other Mastodon instances may have taken a different stance on the Fedipact . fedipact.veganism.social

threads.com/@david.ingwu/post/

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David Ing

"Most of thought has nothing to do with language" says @yannlecun . LLMs are incapable of four essential characteristics of intelligent behavior. The next generation of AI has world models, predicting what might happen as consequences of action .

daviding.wordpress.com/2025/08

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David Ing

"It might not be about starting with why, maybe it's about starting with when" says on "Humbling Design by Sensing Rhythms" to audience of designers at . Building on research from master's in design, plus collaboration since 2019.

youtu.be/RwDU7vb20Ow

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David Ing

Video recording of "AI Automation or IA Intelligence Augmentation" roundtable by + sparked chats on negotiation skills, essential services, autonomous workgroups, accountabilities, asynchonous learning and AI.

coevolving.com/blogs/index.php

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