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atsaloli · 2018-05-16 · Original thread
Basic concepts of promise theory (10 minute video by Mark Burgess who came up with it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TPsB5WuZgk

2014 introductory article: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/promise-theory—what-it

Basic book on the subject: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Promises-Designing-Systems-C...

It's not "maths" like arithmentic but it's "maths" like graph theory:

Promise Theory, in the context of information science, is a model of voluntary cooperation between individual, autonomous actors or agents who publish their intentions to one another in the form of promises. It is a form of labelled graph theory, describing discrete networks of agents joined by the unilateral promises they make.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promise_theory

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