If you read the report I referenced in yesterday’s post you will find multiple claims that there is growing evidence that mindfulness has a major impact on health and well being. By coincidence I came across a New York Times article this morning reporting that “a team of filmmakers led by a British cardiologist say […]
One of the illustrations given when I was at the session on Constructor Theory at Hay-on-Wye was the difference between a satellite and the moon. Both are constrained by the laws of physics but the energy cost of replication of the satellite is less. Now I may be playing fast and loose with Constructor Theory […]
I gave a longish lecture today as a part of the Public Service Commissioner’s event in Whitehorse, Yukon. I started by thanking several of the Provinces as my first post IBM project was in Saskatoon, the first micro-scenarion and cultural mapping projects were in British Colombia and Novia Scotia and the Yukon both have SenseMaker® […]
Many moons ago I used to drive into work everyday from Lockeridge to Farnborough. It took around an hour and a quarter but I was never bored with the first forty five minutes. That took me over the hill and into the Vale of Pewsey before climbing back up again and taking the country roads […]
I wrote my first post Towards a new theory of change some weeks ago, but life has been frantic since then so this is my first blog post following that initial set of thoughts. I am now in the second week of a trip to South Africa and today is the first time I have […]
One of the golden rules of sense-making is that any framework or model that can’t be drawn on a table napkin from memory has little utility. The reason for this is pretty clear, if people can use something without the need for prompts or guides then there are more likely to use it and as […]
There are some words that irritate the hell out of me for the concepts they embody. One of those is the whole idea of memes and the associated practice of memetic science which in some manifestations ends up with memetic engineering. Come to think of it any association of engineering with anything involving humans or […]
Up to Hull today to deliver my first lecture tomorrow in what I hope will be a long term relationship. Yasmin Merali has moved there from Warwick and my loyalties have moved with her, although I am still to lecture on their MBA programme this year. Yasmin is an old and loyal friend. […]
A long flight to San Jose by way of Los Angeles today in preparation for two days of recording for Intel, I have to repeat the same programme on two days wearing identical clothes and the material will then be edited and used for internal training. The agreement also allows us to release the […]
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