My name is R.J. Cordes [kɔʁde] - this is my personal site and knowledge garden.
What I Do
My work is focused on sensemaking, social and information systems engineering and requirements, and remote teams, and is informed by an enduring interest in complex systems and knowledge management. I specialize in program and project management facilitation among organizations.
Why?
Our ability to process information as a networked national / international synthetic intelligence is prerequisite to establishing stable policy addressing any other issue. In my opinion, this human synthetic intelligence, or general information supply chain, is the most vulnerable complex threat surface of our time - we live in an information rich environment managed by antiquated institutional functions, and need new business, operational, legal, technical, and social (BOLTS) mechanisms, frameworks, and infrastructure for navigation. I contribute to BOLTS mechanisms, frameworks, and infrastructure for navigation which preserve community/individual sovereignty, freedom of speech, and equalization of information monitoring capabilities (i.e., if a tool I contribute to might help a company analyze the expressions of people, I want to ensure that people can also use it to analyze the expressions of companies). I want to help route resources to and enable interoperability among systems and cooperation among the many incredible people that want to contribute to the development of approaches, theories, and systems related to information and knowledge management (or information logistics).
Other things I’m Interested in:
Knowledge, Data, and Narrative Information Management Across Contexts
(As interested in how a coffee shop manages inventory data as I am in how a government agency handles a program portfolio)
Mechanism Design, Narrative Structure, Worldbuilding and Scenario Development, Pedagogy, and the Psychology of Immersion in Recreational and Professional Games and Simulations
(As interested in how a small group of tabletop gamers finds immersion in an RPG as I am in helping high-reliability organizations simulate complicated scenarios)
Organizational, Crowd Sourced, and Decentralized All-Source Intelligence
Writing/Composing Music, Poetry, and Narrative Fiction
Architectural Drafting, Carpentry, and Dry-Stone Masonry
Cooking, Recipe Collection, and Experimental Culinary Archeology (i.e. recipe restoration)
Hügelkultur Gardening and Wild Farming
This Site
This site is partially intended to share and host some of my work, but those of you who already know me will recognise that this is just another iteration of my
