Optimisation fallacy
Business is a meaning-making act
Building AI tools for better meaning-making
The future of education is meaning-making
A course on public sector strategy
Decomposable strategy problems
What we keep getting wrong about not-knowing
Thinking strategically about products and services
The public sector needs a better way to do strategy (and I’m building one)
A Bangkok diary
Good strategy must focus on tradeoffs, not just goals
Consulting for the problems you can’t name yet
Why experimenting well matters (and how to do it better)
Unlocking transformative public policy work
Why you’re doing interviews wrong (and how to fix it)
Don’t fall into the public sector efficiency trap
Mess is more
Good strategy understands affect, not just cognition
How to ask for an introduction
Good strategy is embedded, not purely abstracted
Strategy is not the same as planning
Seven strategy tensions … and misunderstandings
Unpacking Boris
True uncertainty ≠ formal risk
The paradox of Science and uncertainty
Not-knowing discussion #13: Tools for thought and action (summary)
Building a toolkit for not-knowing
Not-knowing discussion #12: Broad approaches (summary)
Broad approaches for situations of not-knowing
Not-knowing discussion #11: A mindset for not-knowing (summary)
Not-knowing discussion #10: Intent, causation, and values (summary)
A mindset for not-knowing
Unfrozen from the start
The fountain
Not-knowing discussion #9: The fog of time (summary)
The fog of time
Not-knowing discussion #8: What results are worth (summary)
Not-knowing discussion #7: Causal not-knowing (summary)
Not-knowing about value
Human mRNA
Causal not-knowing
Not-knowing discussion #6: Actions and results (summary)
Not-knowing about actions and outcomes
Generative uncertainty
False advertising
Overloading and appropriation
Not-knowing discussion #5: False advertising (summary)
Not-knowing discussion #4: Misnaming the beasts (summary)
Not-knowing discussion #3: Fear is the mindkiller (summary)
Why not-knowing feels so hard
Meaning in translation
Why (and how) I think about not-knowing
Not-knowing discussion #2: Not-knowing as a path to happiness (summary)
Slowing down
Not-knowing discussion #1: Introducing not-knowing (summary)
Imaginary ethnography
What makes us human (for now)?
Introducing not-knowing.
small by design
Not-knowing as a path to being happy (Part 2)
Not-knowing as a path to being happy (Part 1)
The insidiousness of the formal risk mindset
The consequences of mindset mismatch
How to think more clearly about risk
the french taco
codenames
backcountry
Coronavirus guide for the food and beverage industry
Understanding the strategic situation
Meta-level strategic thinking
Goals are the foundation of strategy
Strategy by design
Strategy and design
Pizza tradeoffs
What is design?
Democracy divided
Open-ended style knowledge
Multilevel, multidimensional diversity
Open-ended style
Agathonic things
Cooking in southern France
Ordinary life
Kommons
The Milky Way
Somatic awareness
Distinguishing risk from true uncertainty
Luxury
Data shouldn’t be allowed to speak for itself
Maintenance
The modern condition
The long and the short of it