I’ve had a frustrating few weeks since my last post. An as yet uncorrected error in Blogo (which I otherwise love but …) associated with multiple images meant I lost two hours of work that I had put into a follow up to my last post on meaning and constraints. I haven’t had the heart […]
I’m finally getting on top of the backlog of email and writing after the Annapurna trek. Travel hasn’t made that easier with the New York-Banff-Paris-Bangor-Durham-Sydney sequence of the two weeks following my return taking it’s toll. Going two weeks without accessing email – for the first time since email was invented – hasn’t helped but […]
This final post in the annual update series has a flavour of putting things together. When I started the series I listed seven frameworks. Three are stable or have only recently been updated, so other than listing them, there are no updates. Those are Cynefin, Flexeous Curves and the Uncertainty Matrix. In my […]
The basic Estuarine Framework has not changed significantly since last year’s publication; the vulnerable zone has been renamed volatile, but that is it for the base framework, which is a testament to its utility. What has changed are the options to generate items for the framework, the action types have extended, and the need to […]
This post continues the narrative theme that I have been working through over the last few weeks with two purposes: (i) to add to what has been a thirty-year body of work and (ii) to prepare for an easy-to-use set of tools to understand, and as significantly to change, underlying attitudes in a range of […]
I’m playing with fire a bit here as I am not a native Welsh speaker, and there are subtleties of meaning that I don’t fully understand. Any feedback is appreciated, and please assume good intent. Still, I was struck when reading a poem in translation – with the original Welsh on the adjacent page – […]
I’ve been building a theme based on the idea that making sense through patterns is a natural form of decision-making that has evolved in humans over time. That has also been linked to the difference between abductive and inductive thinking, which has also been critical to the AI series, which I am temporarily interrupting as […]
Too many moons ago I came up with the Children’s Party Story as a means to understand the core Cynefin domains of Chaos, Complex & Order and it is still the best teaching story I have created. There is a professional video recorded in a studio in Adelaide, in which I was 35kg heavier and […]
As of a few minutes ago I finally finished a 7,000-word chapter on abductive reasoning which followed on from a 9,000-word chapter ‘As through a glass darkly’ on Foresight both of which will be published early in 2024. That and a gruelling travel schedule have kept me from posting on this blog for far too […]
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