Before Thursday’s trip to Liverpool, I talked about the pattern basis of human decision-making and our evolved ability to make decisions under inherent uncertainty. Now, this is a big subject, and I am only going to touch the surface in these two blog posts. In my last point, I talked about the requisite ambiguity that […]
Yesterday, the alarm went off at 0500 to allow me to drive up to Liverpool for a series of meetings that started at 1000 and finished at 1930. Thanks to an accident on the M5, which necessitated a cross-country diversion through the Cotswolds, I got home shortly before midnight. It wasn’t strictly necessary to be […]
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 […]
I’m going way back today to when I was working for Datasolve, before the management buyout that merged it with Software Sciences to create DataSciences which was then taken over by IBM as a part of creating IBM Global Services. So that is at least thirty-five years ago. I was then managing a decision support […]
I’ve been much occupied over the last week writing the Field Guide to Cynefin (formerly known as the Litte Green Book), some 80 pages and 50k words writing to a highly constrained format. I’m using the Travellers Notebook form which is 8.25 x 4.25 Inch (21cm x 11cm), perfect for carrying around. Open any page […]
At the end of each episode of In Our Time, there is an additional few minutes for podcast listeners which always starts with Melvyn Bragg asking his guests what aspects of the topic they would have liked to cover but were missed. So I thought I would do the same at the end of this […]
It is now the evening of Epiphany, the twelfth day of Christmas in the Christian tradition, which ends this series. I may add a post tomorrow, to make a Baker’s dozen, to reference some of the material I haven’t discussed from Science Fiction and Fantasy. Then from Sunday, there will be a series of posts […]
In the penultimate post in this series, I want to pick up on three trilogies: The MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood, The Broken Earth Trilogy by N K Jemisin and two trilogies, culminating in a tetralogy with Stephen R Donaldson’s The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. All three are by outstanding authors, all three explore difficult […]
There is little doubt that the major contribution of the BBC to the genre was Doctor Who so that is where I will start. I belong to the generation who remember when Doctor Who started back in November 1963 when I was nine and a half years old. The first episode was the day after […]
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