Christopher Alexander

1/n There's one overarching meta algorithm that he has worked on his whole life, roughly described as "unfolding"
It could be thought of as a design algorithm, but in fact the deeper you go, the more all thought seems to become a form of design;
2/n "Unfolding" has been further broken down into the application of fifteen "structure preserving transformations" which are more particular, yet still operate at a fairly high level of abstraction;
3/n even those fifteen more algorithmic "transformations" feel more like broad CLASSES of algorithm -
So he's working at a superstructure level for sure
But I find his framing REALLY helpful to remind myself not to get "lost in the weeds"
An eternal reminder of the big picture
SCALE is one of the things we must attend to.