Sep Kamvar suggests a mission when building tools: Every tool should nourish the things upon which it depends.
Natural Limits: Tech Tools Designed Like Bacteria
Sep Kamvar looks at bacteria as a way of thinking about how we build technology tools that are either self-limiting or self-reinforcing.
Ants and the Internet (The Design of Software Ecologies)
Sep Kamver looks at design principles for technologies that follow nature. In this case, colonies of ants and APIs