Things, especially living things, but also information driven things, recur within scaling laws driven by how things work. Things become interesting at the limits, the biggest of things, the smallest of things, where the law fades.
Scaling: The surprising mathematics of life and civilization
By Geoffrey West, Distinguished Professor and Past President, Santa Fe Institute. medium 
I start reading West's piece on scaling. Within two pages I'm trying to remember a position paper I wrote for an event at SFI. It was about chips, and wiki, and other things. Something about addressing. Let's look for it.
I look in my neighborhood. Nothing. I expand from the Roster of my own writing. I Search for 'addressing'. There it is, Escaping Addressing. Yes, that was it.
It is a short page that just mentions the paper written in a different wiki. I'd brought a wiki to the workshop, w4-wiki, written in perl, running on my laptop. We all wrote on that wiki during breaks. I reread. post
Yes, these are old ideas that I had been nursing since reading Carver Mead, Tom Ray, Haldane. wikipedia
So now I'm wondering why this slim reference shows up where I write of Goals for Federated Wiki. It must be a footnote to some other thought. What thought? I look for links to the title by Search from 'Escaping Addressing'.
I find Garden's Meet from 18 months ago. That's Mike Caulfield's metaphor, wiki is a garden, from his near epic The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral. post
Many titles on many sites link to 'Garden's Meet'. Only one is my own work.
But I'm not echoing Caulfield here. This is some more immediate thought remembering the SFI workshop and explaining it to then current colleagues. I search for title links again, Search from 'Garden's Meet'.
I find Garden's Stream where I am exploring the space within which this wiki could unite thoughts created independently over space and time. It s a nice thought.
I discover that this idea has blossomed into a network of ideas, more than I can read right now, related to David Bovill, et al, work on Feast. Thought Garden
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I wrote this page for Walter Clapp who recommended West's medium piece on scaling. I had the feeling of rummaging through my own old bookshelves and wanted to capture the experience for him.
Wiki has several search mechanisms. Neighborhood search creates pages that fork nicely should you have want to save them. I retraced my steps, saving searches and writing about them as I went.
Sadly the global searches insert their results into the requesting page. This seemed like a good idea when I wrote the search plugin. It's not. Global search is slow and produces the result one is more likely to want saved.
Still, the fidelity of this recording might be sufficient to recall this thoughtful journey some time hence. That would be meta thoughtful, something off the end of the scaling law that applies to federated wiki as normally read.