Jamie
https://www.researchonknowing.com
Jamie Douglass is Principal Scientist Emeritus at Research on Knowing LLC. He guides foundational research, scientific methodology, and conceptual frameworks—exploring how shifted perspectives reveal unseen structures in how we learn, reason, and work.
Posts by Jamie
Mapping the Divide: An Assessment of Broadband Access in Whatcom County
Official maps overstated coverage. Our ground-level assessment found the real gaps in upload speed, cost, and infrastructure.
In Project, Gigabit Whatcom, Sep 10, 2026
Community Organizing in Action: The McGee Road Local Loop Project
Theory meets the ground: how neighbors along McGee Road organized, partnered with the Port and PUD, and put their corridor on the map.
In Project, Gigabit Whatcom, Dec 15, 2024
Language of Languages: Project Retrospective & Archived Resources
A look back at what Language of Languages showed about multi-notation systems, with links to all archived papers, slides, and source code.
In Project, Language of Languages, Sep 25, 2024
Beyond Fundamentalism
Religious conservatives have given fundamentalism a bad reputation. The underlying idea, however, has a respectable philosophical cousin called foundationalism: knowledge rests on a f...
In Experience and Understanding, Aug 05, 2022
Learning from Mistakes
The “Frog and Peach” comedy routine features Dudley Moore interviewing an eccentric restaurant owner, Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling, played by Peter Cook. Cook describes in detail a fai...
In Foundations of Knowing, Jul 25, 2022
Trial & Error vs Recipe
Problem-solving can be seen broadly as changing a situation from one state to another. This view covers a host of human endeavors. Most often, the end state is a goal or objective. Pr...
In Foundations of Knowing, Jul 24, 2022
How Math Works
Math stands apart in discussions of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Other fields of endeavor rely on mathematics to create models of theories and work produc...
In Experience and Understanding, Jul 19, 2022
Experience of Reality
In the 1999 movie The Matrix, the scene What is Real? shows the main character, Neo, connected to a computer simulation by a jack in the back of his head. Once in the simulation, Neo ...
In Experience and Understanding, Jul 17, 2022
Feelings
Feelings are very important. Emotional Intelligence (EI), as popularized by Daniel Goleman, is usually described as having five characteristics:
In Experience and Understanding, Jul 09, 2022
The Importance of Errors
People often believe that if errors and mistakes didn’t occur, their lives would be better and the world would be a better place to live. Errors are important, and their essential nat...
In Foundations of Knowing, Jul 06, 2022
What is Knowledge and does it matter?
Some think knowledge is a belief which is always true. They might say, “I know the sun will come up tomorrow.”But such a statement would prove false in the aftermath of a supernova. W...
In Foundations of Knowing, Jul 03, 2022
Welcome to Insights on Knowing
Big shifts often begin with a focused idea. Insights on Knowing is our collection of short stories, sharp observations, and practical wisdom designed to make the unseen mechanics of w...
In Foundations of Knowing, Jul 01, 2022
Why Gigabit Whatcom? Inspired by Susan Crawford’s Fiber
Gigabit Whatcom began with a book arguing that fiber is as essential as roads and water. Here is why we took up the idea for Whatcom County.
In Project, Gigabit Whatcom, Jan 02, 2022
Expanding LoLs Capabilities: The JNode Environment & LoLsServer Architecture
To support larger models, LoLs grew into a multi-component architecture with JNode execution and a dedicated server backend.
In Project, Language of Languages, Aug 07, 2020
Bringing LoLs to the Web: JavaScript, OMetaJS, and the Web Workbench
Squeak Smalltalk was ideal for prototyping but hard to adopt. We moved the LoLs workbench into the browser with JavaScript and OMetaJS.
In Project, Language of Languages, Jun 24, 2017
Language of Languages at SPLASH 2011: Paper & Presentation Highlights
In October 2011 we demonstrated the Language of Languages workbench at SPLASH/OOPSLA in Portland, Oregon.
In Project, Language of Languages, Nov 02, 2011
Under the Hood: Building the First LoLs Prototype in Squeak Smalltalk & OMeta
The first Language of Languages prototype was built in Squeak Smalltalk with OMeta. Here is the minimalist architecture behind it.
In Project, Language of Languages, Nov 05, 2010
Why We Built Language of Languages: Bridging the Multi-Notation Gap in System Design
Large systems are described in many notations at once. Language of Languages began as a way to keep them consistent and understandable.
In Project, Language of Languages, Nov 20, 2008