<h1 id="context-immersion">Context Immersion<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#context-immersion"></a></h1>
How do you find a <a href="https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Effective_system_design_requires_insights_drawn_from_serious_contexts_of_use">Serious context of use?</a>?
<a href="/inquiry/notes/UzCKP637yqfdSpsFfin9x">Becoming a Resident Toolbuilder</a>
Kanjun (paraphrased): Idea-seeking is less powerful than context-seeking
Ethnography/fieldwork can be considered "context immersion", but it isn't normative. It's not intended for toolbuilders/people who want to be constructive about their environments.
How does this relate to IDEO's design thinking practice, and where do its shortcomings intersect with context-seeking as an active process?
<a href="https://www.nngroup.com/articles/contextual-inquiry/">https://www.nngroup.com/articles/contextual-inquiry/</a>
Domain-expert consulting firms are often the only effective ones; like engineering, architecture, or cartography.
Ethnomethodology - cf Suchman and Chapman, seem important in surfacing tacit knowledge. Cf Commonplace Cognition's posts.
Community fellowships:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.codeforamerica.org/programs/network/community-fellowship/">https://www.codeforamerica.org/programs/network/community-fellowship/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.remix.com/blog/5-years-in-review-a-letter-from-our-new-ceo">Remix</a> started as a <a href="https://humantransit.org/2014/06/code-for-america-takes-on-transit.html">Code For America</a> project</li>
<li><a href="https://www.daveguarino.com/">https://www.daveguarino.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bondsofunion.org/ascend-fellowship/">http://www.bondsofunion.org/ascend-fellowship/</a></li>
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<a href="http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/17653/1/forty-years-after-laboratory-life.pdf">http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/17653/1/forty-years-after-laboratory-life.pdf</a>

Context Immersion


This is [Max Krieger](https://a9.io)'s "inquiry" page. I guess it's like a [Digital Garden](https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners). But I'm not trying to upload my Second Brain to it. Just want to share some half-baked ideas. One source of inspiration for this was Kevin Lynagh's ["Collaboration ideas"](https://kevinlynagh.com/ideas/). See also Sharif Shameem's ["Questions"](https://sharif.io/questions/).

It was made with [Dendron](https://dendron.so).

Take everything I write here (well, everywhere) with a grain of salt. That said I'm always happy to talk about anything on here.

The pages definitely don't adhere to [Andy's Evergreen Notes](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z4SDCZQeRo4xFEQ8H4qrSqd68ucpgE6LU155C) pattern, I hope one day they do.

Feel free to add [a PR or issue to the repo](https://github.com/maxkrieger/inquiry) to discuss any of these in public!

## Guide

Here are some of my favorite/extensive pages:

- [[Linear algebra as spreadsheet|projects.linear-algebra-spreadsheet]]
- [[Domain learning for computational microworlds|rethinking-media.microworld-languages]]
- [[Linux DE prototyping|projects.linux-desktop]]
- [[System Archaeology|projects.system-archaeology]]

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