Seattle Method

The Atomic Design Methodology is a mental model that Brad Frost created and is promoting for the design of web pages. But I think that conceptualization applies beyond web pages. In fact, Brad Frost the creator of the Atomic Design Methodology of web pages, also promotes Atomic Design more generally. I have mentioned this model before, see the two posts under additional information, tuning the model each time.  This is my third iteration of tuning this model or theory . This version considers the notion of the holon  and considers my explanation of epistemic risk and competency questions  and the triangle of meaning . Here is my current explanation of my understanding of the discrete stable units referred to as "atoms", "molecules", "organisms", and "species". Atoms are basic fundamental building blocks and make up all “ things ”. If you are building a house, atoms are like the bricks, 2 by 4s, cement, rebar and other fundamental things you m...

The modern accounting landscape is undergoing a structural transformation driven by artificial intelligence and the accelerating shift from realspace to cyberspace. In realspace, work depends on human memory, manual document handling, and tacit knowledge passed from person to person. Cyberspace operates differently: information becomes both machine‑interpretable and human-interpretable (e.g. not a copy), knowledge persists in shared graphs rather than individual minds, and intelligent agents amplify human capability by reducing the cost of forgetfulness. This page explores how accounting; already a deterministic, mathematically coherent system; can be industrialized through digital models, semantic structures, and AI‑enabled workflows. By treating information as modular, reusable, and interpretable by both humans and machines, organizations can eliminate the “human bucket brigade” of document shuffling and embrace a new operating logic built for cyberspace rather than retrofitted from ...

The implementation approaches to representing something like digital accounting artifacts such as accounting working papers, audit working papers, financial statements, and financial analysis models and the base taxonomy metadata to support those artifacts  can be grouped into three technology architectures or stacks.  Those technology architecture stacks are: Semantic Web Stack (a.k.a. Semantic Web Layer Cake ): These are the standards published by the W3C. Labeled Property Graph (LPG) : Graph databases that use the ISO standard graph query language ( GQL ). Logic Programming : Includes ISO standard PROLOG , SQL, XBRL . Multiple technology architecture stacks is a fact of life.  Different enterprises have different preferences and therefore make different choices as to their desired technical implementation approaches.  That said, it is possible to transform between different implementation approaches.  The global open industry standard logical conceptualizat...

The triangle of meaning (a.k.a. triangle of reference ) was first introduced in  the book The Meaning of Meaning by Charles Kay Ogden and I. A. Richards which was published in 1923. The purpose of the triangle of meaning is to understand how to make communication reliable, repeatable, and interoperable. Basically the triangle of meaning is about precision of communication. There are many different versions of the triangle of meaning. Several other versions are mentioned under additional information below. Mainly these triangle of meaning representations are for domains such as linguistics, philosophy, and knowledge engineering and use specialized jargon to explain what they are trying to explain.  I find all of these too hard for the typical business professional to understand. And so, what I did was to take the best aspects of these other triangles of meaning and synthesize the information into something that I can understand and perhaps other business professionals can als...