The Uncertainty Mindset (soon to become tbd)

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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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June 2025

Tool-building (wk 26/2025)
Uncomfortable questions about unknowns; building AI tools for better meaning-making; problems, learned helplessness, performance, comfort, and…
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Before and after science (wk 25/2025)
A workshop on meaning-making; the future of education is meaning-making; question-value, the aesthetic value of uncertainty; what happens before and…
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Severely overinsulated (wk 24/2025)
Hot air balloon conferences; ideal-typical convenings; open space; delicious trash foods in South Australia.
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Public strategy (wk 23/25)
A symphony of freshness; not-so-monolithic problems; public sector strategy; now-ish; Old Skool methods; sauna talk; signs.
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May 2025

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