Two interesting sets of interactions on social media triggered today’s post. One was a distinction made between cutting down a tree and trimming a hedge. That one came from a tweet by Sonja in which she said “I liked the analogy of hedge trimming vs tree felling. When you decide to cut down a tree,
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We live, as the Chinese curse tells us, in interesting times; and those times, to paraphrase Lincoln require us to both think anew and act anew. As ever any radical change is “piled high with difficulty” to extend the Lincoln quote. It was true in 1862 and it is true today. A lot of difficulty
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Yesterday I raised the idea of using a colony of different organisms that have evolved to collaborate as a single entity as a metaphor for new forms of organisation. In that first post in respect of physical workspace I referenced using the familiar, in a modified context to cope with the familiar. I started there
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I am indulging myself a little with the title to this post. For those who don’t know it describes a type marine entity which, while it appears to be a single organism is in fact a colony of different zooids that are different morphologically and are functionally specialised. One of the best examples is the
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Dave, I think scale is important from a navigation perspective as demonstrated in the 2014 Volvo when Vesta Wind ended up on a reef. We also don’t rely on a single source and I will typically have two and typically more sources these days. Would like to discuss sometime
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How do dark constraints factor in? Are these capable of being mapped or is it only the effects? Perhaps a chart throws up hypotheses about what lies beneath, based on the patterns detected at the surface based on experience of similar terrain or seas in other locations where studies have been undertaken. Once more data
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I love wardley maps just for the same reason plus it provides heuristics to navigate. The process of creating a wardley map in a colaborative dynamic probes to be of great help, as well.
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I’ve always talked a lot about maps and the importance of managing the evolutionary potential of the present. I’ve also emphasised the importance of starting journeys with a sense of direction rather than having goals, and by the way, talking about how things should be is a form of goal. Our own adaption, possibly exaption
From time to time I get very frustrated at the ability of consultants and academics to correctly diagnose reasons for failure or success with the benefit of hindsight but fail to realise why the diagnosis of itself is not enough to make a difference the next time round. The latest example of this is a
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I originally intended to publish this post way back in May and got all the notes together but a mixture of work pressure and ill health (a bad foot infection now resolved) have hit the backlog. If you have to spend two weeks with your foot elevated and iced taking strong anti-biotics its too easy
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