The four houses of the Human Fugue - phenomena, rights, resources and meaning. Their evolution from authority --> process.

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Four Houses
of the Human Fugue
@humanfugue

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The Modelverse

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Humans are model-builders
⬥Babies cry
⬥Hunter-gatherers tell stories
⬥Mental Models

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Working with the Model
1. Learn the Model
2. Locate yourself on the Map
3. Navigate your journey

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What is a Fugue?

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The Human Fugue

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The Fundamental Shift
Authority Process

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House 1: Phenomena
Authority
philosopher
religion
Process
Experimental
Philosophy

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Process: The Scientific Method
1. Observe
2. Hypothesize
3. Experiment
4. Review (share, reproduce, publish)
Output: Theories
The House of Phenomena

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Galileo, founding Steward
Articulates the first 3 steps
1623: The Assayer
1610: Sidereus Nuncius i.e. Starry Messenger

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Gravity acts uniformly
objects of different weights
fall at different rates
Aristotle’s claim, intuitively obvious…
& wrong!
Galileo’s experiment:
metal & wooden balls @ Leaning Tower of
Galileo - Practitioner

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The Authority Strikes Back
Galileo’s Celestial Theory
1632: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World
Systems
⬥Heliocentric: sun in center; earth and planets
around it (Salviati)
⬥Sagredo
⬥Geocentric: earth stationary, everything goes
around it (Simplicio)
⬥Inquisition, house arrest, shutdown of SM in
Italy

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Royal Society completes the Process
⬥Gresham College (1660) - Sir Christopher
Wren, John Wilkins, Robert Boyle, et al
⬥Royal Charter (1662)
⬥Curator of Experiments: Robert Hooke
⬥Ipse dixit —> Nullius in verba
⬥Philosophical Transactions: 1665
⬥Newton Principia: 1687

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The process is iterative (repeat!)
the melody keeps going
gravity
Galileo: objects on earth
Newton: terrestrial + celestial
Einstein: spacetime
Hawking: big bang

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Sociology
Fugue within the Fugue…
House 1 Fugue Map
Physics
Chemistry
Biology
Time
Psychology
Paleontology
Astronomy
Archeology
…
Evolution
(1859)
Siderius Nuncius
(1610)
Cunnington et al
(1798)
Wilhelm Wundt, et al
19th
Boyle, Hook, et al
(1661)
Alchemy
Assayer
(1623)
Linnean Society
(1788)
Principia
(1687)
DNA
(1953)
e=mc2
(1905)
Auguste Comte
(1838)
Durkheim
(1895)
Gene Ctrl
(1970)

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Massive Gains from House 1
⬥Gravity
⬥Electricity + Magnetism
⬥Small/weak nuclear forces

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Roles in the Processes
1. Steward
Founding
Ongoing
2. Practitioner
Novice —> Maestro
Ongoing: maintain, improve, share
3. Beneficiary
Un/aware: authority-based vs process-based (decide)
Active: use results of process
Applied: apply output in the world

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H1 Roles
Beneficiary
Un/aware: A/P: vaccinations, age of the earth, global
warming. Who are the new “authorities?”
Active: Students
Applied: Engineers
Practitioner
PhD
academic/researcher/scientist
Darwin, Einstein, Maxwell
Stewards
Ongoing: Ben Franklin, WHR Rivers, Karl Popper, Methods,

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Locating ourselves in the Map
1. Beneficiary
2. Practitioner
3. Steward

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House 4
Beneficiary
Practitioner
Steward
________________’s Human Fugue Map
House 1
House 2
House 3
Time
P
P
present

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House 2: Rights
Authority Process
king
religion
Democracy

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The House of Rights
1. Protest
2. Legislate
3. Execute
4. Review
Process: Democracy
Output: Laws

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James Madison
Authority: KG III
(1776)
Founding Stewards
Madison, Washington, Franklin, Marshall
America 2.0
1789
America 2.0.10 (1789)
America 2.1.10 (1803)
America 1.0 (1777)

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Federalist Papers
Blog Posts evangelizing the Constitution

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Parallel H2 processes
1. Selecting practitioners
⬥S1 (self)
⬥S2/3: voting (and removal)
⬥Electoral College
⬥S4: selected by S2/3
2. Applying the laws (courts, Bill of Rights,
Amendments 5-9); Appellate Courts

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The melody keeps continuing…
female: 1848-1920, …
black:1861-65!, 1960s, …
labor: 1900s
sexual/gay: 1969-2014
(bills & amendments)
And upcoming:
Undocumented, trans, death penalty, death

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Environment
Fugue within Fugue…
House 2 Fugue Map
Federal
Corporations
Individuals
Time
P
P
present
Animals
States
Labor

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H2 Roles
Beneficiary
citizens
Active: voting
Applied: lawyers
Practitioner
legislators: senators/congress people/presidents & judges
Individuals: ECS/SBA S1 (19th), MLK S1, Gregory Watson
S2 (27th), Larry Flynt, Steven Wise, et al.
Steward
Process amendments, Larry, Judiciary Act of 1891,

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Map

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A Republic, if you can keep it! (Ben Franklin)
O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming?
And the Rockets’ red glare, the Bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our Flag was still there;
O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave,
O’er the Land of the free, and the home of the brave?
Star Spangled Banner (1814)

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Process begets Process…
Democracy
Third Constitutional Convention
A Constitutioning!
Scientific Method
classical, pragmatic, etc.

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House 3: Resources
Authority Process
state entrepreneurship/
capitalism

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Entrepreneurship Method
S1: Identify
S2: Create
S3: $ell
S4: Deliver
The House of Resources Process
Output: Business Models

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Capitalism (Macro + Micro Process)
⬥Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith (1776)
⬥Division of labor (pin factory)
⬥Specialization —> greater output
⬥Comparative Advantage/Trade: David
Ricardo
Invisible hand? The entrepreneur!

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Entrepreneurship
⬥Latin: entre (swim out) + prendes (grasp)
⬥Richard Cantillon, Essay on the Nature of
Trade (1755): entrepreneur = risk taker
⬥Jean-Baptiste Say (Steward/practitioner). A
Treatise on Political Economy (1803).
entrepreneur = planner/

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House #3’s ongoing melody
responsiveness:
industrial
services
info
experiences

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Hotels/food
Fugue within Fugue
House 3 Fugue Map
Ag/forestry/
fishing/hunting
Trade: whole/
Retail
Real Estate
Time
P
P
present
Healthcare
Mining/Utilities
Construction
Manufacturing
*NAICS

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Authority Strikes Back in 20th century
⬥Communism/Socialism
⬥Russia: Czars, brief flirtation, back to
authority
⬥Middle East (islam + oil)
⬥Africa (colonialism)
⬥Authority ever-present, even in process-based
societies

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H3 Roles
Beneficiaries
★Consumers
★aware: choice, feedback
★applied: job, Craft Entrepreneurs, investors
Practitioners
⬥ entrepreneurs: Bootstrap/Effectuation
⬥ Funding-driven: venture capitalists (silicon valley)
Stewards
• Central Bank (1913)
• Silver Standard (1785); Gold Standard 1791, Fiat: 1976-
• Schumpeter, Albert Hirschman, Saras Saraswathy, et al

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Silicon Valley: Maestro H3 Practitioners
⬥Steve Jobs & Apple
⬥CDs —> Downloading
⬥Movie Theaters —> Streaming/Experiences
(Alamo Drafthouse)
⬥Retail —> online (amazon)
⬥Taxis —> ride sharing
⬥Hotels —> home sharing (airbnb)

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Map

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The Individual: empowered and at the center
⬥The elite is no more fixed
⬥Turn the individual from a mere receiver to
an active participant and co-creator
⬥Understand and use each House
⬥Harness the collective
Each house DEPENDS on the individual!

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The 3 Houses have Delivered
Major Milestones:
1. Fundamental laws of the universe
2. Achievement of significant rights
3. $35-40K GDP/capita (Western Europe,
Canada/USA, Australia)
…and the process continues
Process Trounces Authority

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Asymptotes
H1: researching smaller phenomena
H2: smaller populations
H3: trivial/high-end resource needs

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The Stage is Set for the 4th House
Meaning
el(s) by which a being parses its e

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House 4: Meaning
Authority Process
religion
philosophers
culture
Houses 1-3
JOurneY

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Meaning Cannot be Solved by Other Houses
It’s personal to each being
⬥H1: infinite philosophies, no convergence
⬥H2: collaborative
⬥H3: transactional

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Stewards of Meaning
⬥ Precursors: Nietzsche (1882/83), Beckett (1953),
Psychoanalysis: Freud
⬥ 20th century art: Picasso/Braque, Cubism
⬥ Existentialism
⬥ Carl Jung: dreams, analysis: individuation; HoME,
archetypes (models of meaning)
⬥ Viktor Frankl (1946): meaning is the individual’s
responsibility
⬥ Joseph Campbell (1949): the meaning journey; external
actions lead to inner transformation
⬥ Abraham Maslow (1954), Carl Rogers: self-actualization

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House 4: Meaning
Authority Process
religion
philosophers
culture
Houses 1-3
JOurneY

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JOurneY Method: H4 Process
S1: Inherit
S2: Choose
S3: Curate
S4: Fugue
Output: Meaning Models

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Austin’s role as founding city: 1970s-
ATX Equation: the Infrastructure of H4 in a City
Be Yourself!
Journey Capital

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House 4 Subfugue
⬥Human beings
⬥Organizational beings
⬥City being
⬥…

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Aesthetics
Fugue within Fugue…
House 4 Fugue Map for Individuals
Gender
Race
Work
Time
P
P
present
Relationships
Sexuality
Spirituality

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H4 Roles
Beneficiaries
⬥ using other people’s meaning models
Practitioners
⬥ available to all of us!
⬥ “Stewardship” - helping an entity become itself;
environment, wolves; a being’s house of meaning.
Stewards
⬥ Bijoy Goswami
⬥ Arie de Geus, Danny Gutknecht,

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The Fugue Emerges from the Metaphor of Computing
⬥Alan Turing (1936)
⬥Algorithm = Process
⬥View Houses 1-3 retrospectively in terms of
algorithms
⬥sequence of steps —> output
⬥if/then loops
⬥repeat
⬥Develop the 4th House as a Process

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Meaning
(Austin)
JOurneY
Essence Mining
Melodies of the Human Fugue
Humanity’s Human Fugue Map
Phenomenon
(Pisa)
Scientific
Method
(Galileo, Newton et al)
1500s/1600s
Democracy
(Madison et al)
1776-1803
Rights
(Philadelphia)
Resources
(New York)
Capitalism
(Smith, Ricardo,
Hamilton et al)
1776-1804

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The Human Fugue

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H4
Beneficiary
Practitioner
Steward
Country Human Fugue Maps
H1
H2
H3
Time
P
P
present
Japan/Germany/India
(1945/47)
India
(1991)
China
(1979)
Taiwan/Korea
1980s
Japan/Germany
(1945)
SF - S2
(1960s)
USA - S3?USA - S2
infrastructure

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United Kingdom
⬥Steward of H1
⬥H2: Supreme Court
⬥H3: Industrial Revolution
⬥H4: the House of Windsor

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Country Human Fugue Preferences
⬥Computers: UK vs USA
⬥Healthcare: USA vs Canada/Europe
⬥Germany’s H1

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Countries’ Journey adopting the processes
■ India (socialism: 1947-1991)
■ China, Russia (democracy)
■ the Middle East
A key feature—noise/activity misunderstood as
chaos/weakness—makes Authority appealing

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H4 (18)49ers
Gold Rush
Melodies of the Human Fugue
Silicon Valley’s Human Fugue Map
H1
Stanford
H2
H3
Railroad
Barons
Fred Terman
R&D
Emp Ret Act ‘74
Cap Gains ‘78
Bootstrap
HP 1934
Bootstrap +
Angel
VC Platforms
Silicon
Valley

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City Human Fugue Preferences
⬥Boston?
⬥DC?
⬥LA/
⬥Austin?!

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Journey Entrepreneurship: all the Houses

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Journey Buddy
⬥Schedule time to connect
⬥Which House do you live in?!
⬥Role within the houses?
⬥Next step on your journey?

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Aviri Foundation
Bootstrap
JOurneY
MRE
ATX EquationHuman Fugue
Steward of Meaning Models
Essence Mining

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Human Fugue Social Media
⬥humanfugue.com
⬥facebook.com/humanufugue
⬥twitter.com/humanfugue
⬥Siminar

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Human Fugue Resources
H1: The Fellowship, Great Experiment, Evolution,
H2: Genius of America,
H3: Passions and the Interests, Bootstrappers, ,
Marginal University, Joe Pine (H3 cartographer),
H4: Meaning at Work,
Human Fugue: Systems of Survival,
Films: Human Fugue, H1, H2

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Invitation
Reach for the Apple, Eve, Isaac and Steve
Inspire us toward new worlds to conceive,
Eve’s act took us forth from sheep so asleep
Out of the garden to lords of our keep,
Isaac did ponder orbs apple and moon
Found the vast forces of gravity’s tune,
Steve was inspired cherishing the byte
A Bike for the mind his Apple took flight,
What insights emerge from this treat of lores
Come on, take a bite: its fruit could be yours!