Boris Mann's digital garden and personal site.
Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning · Journal of Design and Science
Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six significant levels of pace and size in a robust and adaptable civilization.
Of Digital Streams, Campfires and Gardens
Building personal learning environments across the different time horizons of information consumption
Finding Flow: Escaping Digital Distractions Through Deep Work and Slow Living
Learn how to achieve flow state and defeat digital distractions through environment design, mindful breaks, and deep work practices for a more focused life.
Pace Layers 02025 Annual Journal
Long Now’s annual print journal explores the ancient past and distant future of the present moment through essays, interviews, fiction, poetry, and visual art. The journal takes its name and shape from Long Now cofounder Stewart Brand’s pace layers framework — a tool for thinking about how civilizations work. [Learn more about Pace Layers](https://longnow.org/pacelayers/)
Announcing Pace Layers
The inaugural issue of Long Now’s new annual print journal synthesizes the most important learnings of our first quarter-century.
🌿 Foraging in High-Dimensional Data
My talk from the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute 2025 on how we can draw from thinking in complex systems science and game design to heal our relationship to the Web.
Toward Wayfinding Infrastructure for the Living Web · Atlas Research Group
Our world is getting crazier by the day. Our old maps and compasses weren’t made for this complexity. While new tools may open up amazing possibilities, they also make it easier to lose ourselves – especially when they don’t belong to us, and make us vulnerable to other people’s hidden choices and unsavory intentions about what is worth attending to.
