Traps. And Warm Data.
Traps. And Warm Data. So, I fell into a trap of my own making. Last week I wrote that top-down prescriptive approaches to decolonisation are replicating the...
Decolonising our thinking
Decolonising our thinking Last week I wrote about the need to change the way we think. Here's an example. This morning I had a discussion about 'decolonising...
We are not radical enough
We are not radical enough Over the last two weeks, visiting Switzerland, I had quite a few conversations with my two siblings about life, the universe and...
Looking back, looking forward
Looking back, looking forward Happy New Year to all of you! My year 2021 ended with a bang, I had a positive COVID-19 test on 31 December (my birthday)! So...
Being in service to the present
Being in service to the present Last week I ended my email with linking our inclination of deducing individual strands of causality to our perceived need to...
Causality, Map and Territory
Causality, Map and Territory Dave Snowden likes to characterise complex adaptive systems as having a disposition to behave in a certain way, rather than...
On Writing
On Writing I missed writing my weekly email last week. There was no right moment. As a consequence, I was reflecting why I am writing, why I decided to move...
The Role of Art
The Role of Art On Friday I visited the Vincent van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. I really enjoyed the exhibition. There were three images I enjoyed in...
Plucking the Chords
Plucking the Chords How can we think about action in complex, dynamic human systems? I wrote about the problem with attempting to fix problems before. I have...
Locus of purpose
Locus of purpose I want to explore my discomfort with purpose a bit more. I have written about it in my last week's email but also before (for example, here...
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here? How do we know when a situation is getting better or worse? How can we define how a situation would look like that we would...
What is going on?
What is going on? What are we not seeing? This is a difficult question to answer. How should we know what we are not seeing? Yet there is always something we...
What is real?
What is real? In systems change literature, one often reads that boundaries in systems are only conceptual. These boundaries exist only in our heads, they...
Pause and reflect
Pause and reflect Perception is generally defined as the process of perceiving something with the senses. Perception, hence, happens through information that...
To act or not to act … ?
To act or not to act … ? It is pretty clear that if we find something that is going wrong, a problem, we act to rectify it. As the old adage say: "Love it,...
On Resilience
On Resilience I have joined this month's Critical Business School on the topic Complexity, Prompts and Resilience. Yesterday we talked about planning and...
On being confused
On being confused Nitzan Hermon wrote in his last email: In many ways, the more affordances we want to have to change and adapt, the less clear we can afford...
Entanglement and Agency
(Source) Entanglement and Agency Today I want to share two quotes from a lecture given by Gregory Bateson at the California State University, Sacramento in...
Seeking refuge in the known
(Source) Seeking refuge in the known In my explorations of various aspects of being in complex, living, ecological systems, I every now and then get to a...
What is Home in a Changing World?
What is Home in a Changing World? I spent some time with Nora Bateson in Sweden a couple of weeks back to learn more about Warm Data and Warm Data Labs. We...