As promised I am moving on today to a more dystopian theme with specific books from two of my favourite authors Neil Stephenson and Iain M Banks. Both of them have in common novels in which the transfer of a human to a virtual environment is deemed possible. They also both deal with what […]
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 […]
I normally provide a quarterly summary of key blog posts but this year has been my least prolific ever, somewhat compensated by a rich year in terms of forthcoming publications, but more notable in terms of method and framework development with Estuarine Mapping being the highlight. The scarcity in one context probably has some relation […]
Last night saw me in the Royal Opera House for Humperdinck’s märchenspiel Hansel and Gretel. I almost didn’t book to see it as it is very much a children’s opera but I hadn’t seen it for years, the production team looked interesting and of course, one of the main influences on Humperdinck was Wagner, much of […]
One of the two articles I mentioned yesterday is focused on how networks have evolved to make better decisions than individual members of those networks and this post largely contains extracts from that article.. The inimitable Rory Sutherland (whose company I enjoy more than most) makes the point here in a wonderfully succinct summary of why loss […]
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 […]
It’s just over six weeks since I attended the Cynefin retreat on Ethics and Leadership, and it’s almost taken me that long to recover from the cognitive overload during those three days. So, why was it a cognitive overload? Well for me, it was because of three things. Firstly, the structure of the event is […]
Thank you both, Beth Smith and Rhiannon Davies, for your outstanding contributions to the White Paper. In a world that constantly generates data at an unprecedented pace, making sense of it all can be a daunting task. This is true whether you are monitoring and evaluating the impact of initiatives, projects, programmes or interventions. SenseMaker® […]
I’ve just submitted my PhD! Cue a giant sigh of relief. I’ve been with The Cynefin Co, on the Health Programme team, since April 2021. Alongside this, I have been on a four-year journey of a cotutelle PhD in Exercise, Nutrition, and Health Sciences between the University of Bristol and the University of Cape Town, […]
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