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Eleanor Snowden
When I was asked to reflect on the role of women in science, philosophy, and research for International Women’s Day, I was immediately taken back to an A-level history lesson at the age of 18.  We were lucky enough to have a teacher who inspired us with tales of his previous life working in the […]
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Dave Snowden
There will be a few context-setting memories before I get to the point in today’s post, so feel free to go straight to the sub-heading if you want to avoid them. I spent a fair amount of time in Philadelphia during my IBM days for several reasons.  I worked as a minor advisor to Jan […]
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Dave Snowden
One of the critical approaches we developed with narrative, initially in workshops and then at scale with SenseMaker®, was to take people through parallel processes of interpretation and then get the two groups to compare the results.  That work is three decades old in some forms, and the underlying principles have stood the test of […]
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Dave Snowden
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 […]
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Dave Snowden
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 – […]
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Dave Snowden
Just over a month ago, I tagged an article in The Guardian which had picked up on the work of Italian anthropologist Vito Teti on the social value of nostalgia.   That sent me burrowing, but the only one of his books which I could find translated from la bella lingua (to quote Lucia, and […]
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Dave Snowden
There is a little of the old and the new in the imagery I have used in this post.  I took the banner picture on an evening walk along the Ridgeway from its official start on Overton Hill.  The Ridgeway is one of the ancient pathways in Europe, and it can be walked as far […]
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Dave Snowden
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 […]
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Dave Snowden
This is the first of two posts that will juxtapose the work of a modern writer with a classic from the past. A future post will look at Terry Pratchett as the modern-day Swift. Today I want to position Jasper Fforde as the modern-day Lewis Carroll hence the opening picture. For those who don’t know […]
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