interwebs locales

some of the places on the interwebs that I have some presence…

Started teaching again so mining my notes from Ele

Started teaching again so mining my notes from Eleanor Duckworth’s class: The Having of Wonderful Ideas - Alternative Pedagogies of listening, problem posing, messing about, and critical exploration.

looking back on a conversation with Game Developer

looking back on a conversation with Game Developer @andienordgren where we pondered games as trojan horses for creating safe spaces to play — ways of temporarily suspending (or at least softening) power differentials.
#wardleymapping
#cocreation
#senesemaking

one of the most provocative (provoking playfulness

one of the most provocative (provoking playfulness), engaging, joy-inducing books i’ve come across. I return to it again & again.

#lyndabarry #sensemaking #whatisart #makingsenseofshit #comics

looking back on concepts that seemed to tip me for

looking back on concepts that seemed to tip me forward into new thought-spaces:
interception (like perception only directing inside, e.g. sensing ones own heartbeat)

the enactive approach (of cognition) in The Embodied Mind (Varela Thompson Roche) & Mind in Life (Thompson)

Birdsong learning and neural plasticity (or absence of) in a course with Takao Hensch

ATTENTION!!! as captured/directed, focused/diffuse from Steve Yantis

... and the role/dynamics of EMOTION in all this- William James & so many others

#emotionandcognition
#neuroscience
#attention
#learning
#development
#sensemaking

“I'm convinced the highest leverage way to impro

“I'm convinced the highest leverage way to improve society is to empower normal people to understand complex systems.
Is there anything more valuable than that? (non-rhetorical btw)” — ben hohner tweet

to which i replied:
“yes!, and I'd add: understanding isn't enough. folks also need tools for managing the angst that understanding can foster. My complexity "tools" aren't just for navigating, they also help me cope with the feels that come with acknowledging all the murkiness & uncertainty.”

Alan Watts’ bk The Wisdom of Insecurity is an example of one kind of tool that has helped me cope with complexity: books.

Watts prefaces his bk saying it is an exploration of the law of reversed effort (e.g. the more you try to control the less u have) in relation to man’s quest for psychological security, and to his efforts to find certainty...

#alanwatts
#sensemaking
#anthrocomplexity
#complexadaptivesystems

what if what you're looking for is not under the l

what if what you're looking for is not under the lamp post?

#cynefin
#sensemaking

#culturalevolution

#culturalevolution

#culturalevolution

#culturalevolution

note to self found in journal from 2016: just. tel

note to self found in journal from 2016: just. tell. stories.

THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR CERTAINTY what a stran

THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR CERTAINTY
what a strange motto for the art publication society.

found on the back of one of my Granny’s piano exercise books from the late 1920’s

Another installment in the wayfinding tools series

Another installment in the wayfinding tools series, this one on syncing knowings and doings and Kegan's Theory of adult development.

Made with @mental_canvas
#visualizingTheInvisible #wayfinding #sensemaking #toolsForReflection #adultDevelopment #knowingDoingGap #madewithmentalcanvas

tools for wayfinding in uncharted territory I've

tools for wayfinding in uncharted territory

I've continued to play around with a new workflow for animations, using @mental_canvas, working on visuals before even thinking about the voice-over. It feels like a more organic process, but I'm curious to hear how these "fly-throughs" are landing.

In this one I touch on #wardleymapping and #polaritymapping

here's a tour of a visual journal entry in an old

here's a tour of a visual journal entry in an old school paper notebook, converted to 2 1/2 D with @mental_canvas. The original was from the early covid days of April 2020, updated to reflect that we're now fighting about vaccines as well as masks.
#sensemaking #realOptions #contemplativepractice #observationWithoutEvaluation #warOnCovid #tovaxornottovax

a fly-through of the #cynefin #sensemaking framewo

a fly-through of the #cynefin #sensemaking framework -- a tool for getting #unstuck.

#madewithmentalcanvas #procreate and #garageband on an #ipad

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