The Uncertainty Mindset (soon to become tbd)

Reasoning scaffolds (wk 43/2025)

Infrastructure for human subjective reasoning; walking in a forest; dynamic moulds, San Francisco malls, Kryptos, television; coloured water.

Oct 22 • 

Vaughn Tan

3

Prototyping logics (wk 41/2025)

Prototypes and the value of theory; Socratic mirrors, reasoning scaffolds, and AI tools; in-country patterns; closures, modern instrumentals, natural…

Oct 6 • 

Vaughn Tan

6

September 2025

An AI critical thinking tool (wk 39/2025)

An AI tool for learning critical thinking while using AI tools; Tunisia and structured elicitation; various perspectives on how to use AI; developments…

Sep 24 • 

Vaughn Tan

8

Open pollination (wk 37/2025)

A breakthrough in cases; taking the public sector seriously; the practical value of thinking about meaningmaking; dissolving vs. solving, quant…

Sep 10 • 

Vaughn Tan

6

August 2025

FOUNDATION (wk 35/2025)

A game for experiencing not-knowings; things that are invisible for a long time; marsupials.

Aug 28 • 

Vaughn Tan

2

6

Thought support (wk 34/2025)

AI tools that support critical thinking; not-knowings, on demand; organisational interventions for uncertainty; subliminal learning, K4, satisfying…

Aug 21 • 

Vaughn Tan

6

Categorisation supremacy (wk 33/2025)

Good categorisation wins over pure empiricism; Singapore's 60th birthday; a low-intervention wine experiment; the concept of enlightenment in Zen/Chan…

Aug 10 • 

Vaughn Tan

5

1

Rugged terrain (wk 32/2025)

Years of not-knowing in 1 diagramme; stacking spaces; desert salmon, observances of death, apples and flags ranked, radioactive fruit flies, wasps, and…

Aug 5 • 

Vaughn Tan

8

7

July 2025

The games we play (wk 30/2025)

Games of uncertainty (not risk); art thinking and generative uncertainty; veal parts; accidents of the knee and of wine; patterns in fashion, AI…

Jul 27 • 

Vaughn Tan

3

1

Nonstandard methods (wk 29/2025)

Human mRNA; strategy for resilience and uncertainty; meaning-making and work in a time of AI; Slovenian stone; art thinking, stovetop espresso, more…

Jul 18 • 

Vaughn Tan

5

3

Expertise conundrum (wk 28/2025)

The AI expertise conundrum; strong winds and forest fires, frosty fingers, household goods, tuna collar; animal chiropractors, making clothing in…

Jul 13 • 

Vaughn Tan

2

Fallacy lens (wk 27/2025)

Optimisation as fallacy; business as meaning-making act; the drudgery of administration; the search for good manufacture; working in a canicule.

Jul 6 • 

Vaughn Tan

6

2