Archive

2024

January

Not-knowing discussion #13: Tools for thought and action (summary)
Building a toolkit for not-knowing
Not-knowing discussion #12: Broad approaches (summary)

2023

December

Broad approaches for situations of not-knowing
Not-knowing discussion #11: A mindset for not-knowing (summary)

November

Not-knowing discussion #10: Intent, causation, and values (summary)
A mindset for not-knowing

October

Unfrozen from the start
The fountain
Not-knowing discussion #9: The fog of time (summary)

September

The fog of time
Not-knowing discussion #8: What results are worth (summary)

August

Not-knowing discussion #7: Causal not-knowing (summary)
Not-knowing about value

July

Human mRNA
Causal not-knowing
Not-knowing discussion #6: Actions and results (summary)

June

Not-knowing about actions and outcomes
Generative uncertainty
False advertising
Overloading and appropriation

May

Not-knowing discussion #5: False advertising (summary)
Not-knowing discussion #4: Misnaming the beasts (summary)

March

Not-knowing discussion #3: Fear is the mindkiller (summary)
Why not-knowing feels so hard
Meaning in translation

February

Why (and how) I think about not-knowing
Not-knowing discussion #2: Not-knowing as a path to happiness (summary)
Slowing down

January

Not-knowing discussion #1: Introducing not-knowing (summary)
Imaginary ethnography
What makes us human (for now)?
Introducing not-knowing.

2022

November

small by design
Not-knowing as a path to being happy (Part 2)

October

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

September

Innovation and not-knowing
Unpacking Boris

2021

October

Blackberry time

July

the french taco
codenames
backcountry

January

What do writers get paid

2020

August

Strategy and design theory

June

Pizza writing

March

Coronavirus guide for the food and beverage industry

January

Everyday life

2019

November

Indefinite sustainability

October

Understanding the strategic situation
Meta-level strategic thinking
Goals are the foundation of strategy
Strategy by design

September

Strategy and design
Pizza tradeoffs
What is design?
Democracy divided
Open-ended style knowledge

August

Multilevel, multidimensional diversity
Open-ended style
Agathonic things
Cooking in southern France
Ordinary life
Kommons
The Milky Way

July

Cynical design

June

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