The Uncertainty Mindset (soon to become tbd)

River crossing (wk 9/2026)

Here and there; navigation, many games; slop, possums, agency, immaturity.

Feb 26 • Vaughn Tan

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5

January 2026

Writing with machines (wk 3/2026)

Tacit knowledge, motivation, and negotiation; writing with machines; Smart Bricks, being kinded, and specs.

Jan 14 • Vaughn Tan

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10

Multiples (wk 1/2026)

Judgment from the ground up; labour-intensive and industrial foods, prompting as teaching; maintenance and replacement; Boring Tiny Tools in India…

Jan 5 • Vaughn Tan

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1

December 2025

Boring and uncomfortable (wk 52/2025)

Why Boring Tiny Tools are good; what to do when there's nothing to do; being uncomfortable; billionaire babies, moneymaking, choosing deviance.

Dec 22, 2025 • Vaughn Tan

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November 2025

Going online (wk 48/2025)

Online workshops; finding books in space with situated memory; headlessness, 3D-printed boats, AI energy usage, climate models, mendacity.

Nov 29, 2025 • Vaughn Tan

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1

Free range (wk 47/2025)

Public value and public strategy; what I've been up to; electric anxiety; Rupertness in polyhedra, rewritable pads, tape clips, zip ties; trees, cats…

Nov 18, 2025 • Vaughn Tan

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6

October 2025

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, 2025 • Vaughn Tan

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1

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, 2025 • Vaughn Tan

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1

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, 2025 • Vaughn Tan

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1

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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • Vaughn Tan

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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, 2025 • Vaughn Tan

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