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  "created": "2026-10-05T06:34:13Z",
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  "content_md": "We have [canonical metaphors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphors_We_Live_By) for [organisations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Images_of_Organization):\n\n- Machines\n- Organisms\n- Brains\n- Cultures\n- Political systems\n- Psychic prisons\n- Flux and transformation\n- Instruments of domination\n\nWhilst reading Helen Czerski’s [*Blue Machine*](<[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphors_We_Live_By](https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/441190/blue-machine-by-czerski-helen/9781804991961)>), it struck me that we need a similar canonical metaphor list for [protocols](https://protocol-institute.org/).\n\nSome candidates:\n\n- Oceans\n- Musculoskeletal systems\n- Civil sociotechnical infrastructure\n- Mesoscale biological signalling",
  "content_html": "<p>We have <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphors_We_Live_By\">canonical metaphors</a> for <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Images_of_Organization\">organisations</a>:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Machines</li>\n<li>Organisms</li>\n<li>Brains</li>\n<li>Cultures</li>\n<li>Political systems</li>\n<li>Psychic prisons</li>\n<li>Flux and transformation</li>\n<li>Instruments of domination</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Whilst reading Helen Czerski’s <a href=\"[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphors_We_Live_By](https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/441190/blue-machine-by-czerski-helen/9781804991961)\"><em>Blue Machine</em></a>, it struck me that we need a similar canonical metaphor list for <a href=\"https://protocol-institute.org/\">protocols</a>.</p>\n<p>Some candidates:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oceans</li>\n<li>Musculoskeletal systems</li>\n<li>Civil sociotechnical infrastructure</li>\n<li>Mesoscale biological signalling</li>\n</ul>",
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