© 2025, Angela Madsen All rights reserved.

For Violet.

This book was written by a human mind with no AI assistance at any point in the process.

All confabulation is my own. All research gaps are my own. All interpretive thinking is my own. Annotations are the best I could manage with the timescapes involved, and will be continued to be worked for a while.

Three Buckminster Fuller structures are used in the Systems flow page; Manoogian & Benson's Cognitive Bias Codex is used on the Cognitive bias page; otherwise all images are created myself using either Affinity Design or sketching in Concept. This book has been through multiple versions, multiple software, and multiple structures through the five years I worked on articulating it. Tools have included Ulysses, Powerpoint, and Affinity Publisher.

• Holistic delight in information architecture
• More information

Linear models of the book

Information progression

Interior pattern for each progression

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Symbols

Roaches and tigers Symbols of our emotions and power

Roaches are a little bit fear, a little bit disgust, and a little bit of anger. I’ve yet to meet a person who doesn’t want to kill them. That killing is entirely within possibility. They are easy to overpower, a tiny thing compared to us.

Roaches become more meaningful if I get around to writing the next movements.

Tigers are fear, our mortality made unquestionable. They are gorgeous and awe inspiring. If a tiger wants to eat you, chances are solid it will eat you. They are overpowering, large and weighty and sharp tooth and claw compared to us.

Vines as in grape vines grown for wine, have become the embodiment of the idea of thinking further ahead.

Radishes have become the embodiment of the idea of thinking only in terms of fastest possible outcome.

Books have become the embodiment of the idea of objectified data; in some instances they stand in for nuggetized data / information, and in some instan

Movements

A network exists within

Seriously, the book is a network. The entirety is the message. It’s the whole. These are the references within the book to other ideas in the book, and when it all finally comes together: that’s what I’m talking about. 

Information, and people. Everything is connected; and everyone, everywhere, throughout time, with meaning and context enriching it. We can’t (yet?) take it all in, especially while we’re running around with our urgencies, working desperately to survive. In

Information architecture resources

Noam Chomsky

He is not considered an information architect, and to the best of my knowledge has never called himself an information architect. But his broad interest, looking at the fundamentals of information, information transference, and systems makes me think of him like an early practitioner of IA. He's definitely, absolutely contributed to my thinking in IA in more ways than I can easily detail.

Abby Covert

Abby Covert makes information architecture more approachable by more people. I think she's the source of "make sense" as a key part of what information architecture does. If this book feels just out of reach, pick up her work, and then circle back to try again.

Buckminster Fuller

His thinking is so ahead that it's hard to remember he died in 1983. He is, again, someone who wouldn't be constrained to one discipline. He's known for architecture (geodesic dome), but his work in systems, design, writing, philosophy, and thinking deeply ab

Fields of study

These were my entries. The only reason I stopped here was to pull what I’d learned together according to what I was most drawn to. I’m going to keep reading, in whatever field of study that appeals to me.

Anthropology Biology Data visualization Education Information architecture Information organization Heuristics Library sciences Neurology Psychology/Cognitive psychology Sociology

Particular authors

There are certain authors whose ideas carried into my day-to-day life.  They shaped my perception as I try to confirm or deny their insights.

Ideas that makes you think are worthy, even if it’s to discount them. With critical thinking, well-thought-out ideas that I have instinctual trouble with are usually more like a different view into the network. They helped uncover hidden presumptions – sometimes theirs, sometimes my own.

 •    Abby Covert  •    Richard Saul Wurman  •    Loren Eiseley  •    B.F. Skinner  •    Noam Chomsky  •    Steven Pinker  •    Peter Morville  •    Cory Doctorow  •    Joseph Campbell  •    David Brin

The short list

Some information formulations rock worlds. They are not only considered, but consumed and supply new lenses. If I could convince people to ingest a short list, these would be they.

Books

Eiseley, Loren C. 1997. The night country.

Gladwell, Malcolm. 2013. The tipping point. Abacus.

Grant, Adam. 2022. Think Again: the power of knowing what you don't know. [S.l.]: W H ALLEN.

Holmes, and Maeda. 2018. Mismatch: how inclusion shapes design. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Kainz, Richard I. 2013. Thinking, fast and slow.

Krug, Steve. 2019. Don't make me think, revisited: a common sense approach to web usability. [Berkeley, CA ]: New Riders.

Kurzweil, Ray. 2014. The age of spiritual machines: when computers exceed human intelligence. New York: Penguin Books.

Morville, Peter. 2014. Intertwingled: information changes everything. Ann Arbor: Semantic Studios.

Novella, Steven, and Steven Novella. 2015. Your deceptive mind a scientific guide to critical thinking skills. Chantill

Annotations

Information

connectome

Basulto, D. (2013, July 24). Humans are the world’s best pattern-recognition machines, but for how long? Big Think. https://bigthink.com/articles/humans-are-the-worlds-best-pattern-recognition-machines-but-for-how-long/

Forte, T. (2018, April 28). A pattern recognition theory of mind. Forte Labs. https://fortelabs.com/blog/a-pattern-recognition-theory-of-mind/

How are dopaminergic circuits established? (2023, October 6). Harvard Brain Science Initiative. https://brain.harvard.edu/hbi_news/how-are-dopaminergic-circuits-established/https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/dopamine-fasting-misunderstanding-science-spawns-a-maladaptive-fad-2020022618917

Mattson MP. Superior pattern processing is the essence of the evolved human brain. Front Neurosci. 2014 Aug 22;8:265. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00265. PMID: 25202234; PMCID:PMC4141622.

Waters, J. (2021, August 22). Constant craving: how digital media turned us all into dopamine addicts. The Guardian. http

Rally points, calls, and sends

The bold words are the short name noted in bold in the yellow box at the bottom of relevant pages, aka the rally points. The "calls" inset are duplicated in the yellow boxes on each relevant page.

Then the "sends" are listed. These are each of the pages that call a rally point.

accomplish:

what are we hoping to accomplish

calls: story, strata, time

Movements is a book in six parts

Part 1: Introduction

Part 2: Information

Part 3: Who-ness

Part 4: People and time

Part 5: Fractal implications

Part 6: Appendix

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