The Interface manifesto

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Argues that APIs are turning organizations into deliberately complex adaptive systems and proposes an Interface manifesto to steer that change, starting with interviews from January and a public synthesis by next December. Cites concrete artifacts: research on developer portals, an API‑to‑docs community event, a Dev Portal Awards program, a mailing list and a podcast called API Resilience. Warns against industrializing docs into a Confluence‑like dead end and calls for design of humane affordances.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:35Welcome
3. 1:20Introduction
4. 2:50Interface manifesto
5. 4:00How are APIs impacting individuals
6. 4:47How APIs impact government and wider society
7. 5:20Failure states
8. 6:00Complexity perspective
9. 6:35Adaptive systems
10. 7:00Biological autonomy
11. 7:53Nervous system evolution
12. 9:12Navigating the landscape
13. 9:59Local optimizations
14. 10:38External vs internal
15. 11:41Two worlds
16. 14:05Postman
17. 16:05An opportunity for change
18. 16:25The Silo effect
19. 17:37The opportunity
20. 18:08Management hierarchies
21. 18:31Living systems
22. 18:46Complexity
23. 19:33API Resilience Podcast
24. 20:04New mailing list
25. 20:50Complexity vs complexity

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