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Tools for generalists

Dave Snowden
November 28, 2008
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Five examples from just one day in a RSS feed, one of the greatest productivity tools available for the curious generalist.

  • The way you see yourself can influence your perception of pain here
  • Internet communities around mental disorder here
  • Price perception on wine tasting here
  • Processing novelty in the brain here
  • Blind people are better at spacial navigation here

Reported from the lounge in Singapore prior to an overnight to London

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I inherited The Little World of Don Camillo from my mother and still have it in the 3 shillings and sixpence version.  That’s  17½p in modern currency, adjusting for inflation, around £5-£6 today; our mental arithmetic was much more adept in pre-decimal days!  I fell in love with the whole series when I was quite young. […]
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Dave Snowden
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In my first post in this series, I talked about social and semiotic patterns, introducing culture as an assemblage, or more properly, an agencement, a more dynamic word.  I went on to talk about the role of curiosity and the need for diversity of background in any situational assessment. Then, in a third and somewhat […]
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Enhancing Decision Making with the Cynefin Framework and Applying Complexity Science Informed Strategy with Estuarine Mapping
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The Cynefin Framework and Estuarine Mapping (Estuarine Framework); Frequently mentioned, but what are they and how are they related? Most people who will come across this blog will probably be familiar to some extent with the Cynefin Framework, and increasingly more people are becoming familiar with Estuarine Mapping, but how are they related, what is […]
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it may be a worldview thing

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three models of systems … or five

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