The Uncertainty Mindset (soon to become tbd)

The Uncertainty Mindset (soon to become tbd)

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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

Slice nerd (wk 20/25)
Pizza nerd; talking (or not-talking) about not-knowing; partial light transmission (and photos of same).
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Architecture tourist (wk 19/25)
Product and service strategy; amorphous consulting; Guastavino arches; Chinese Rooms and vampirism; Louise Nevelson
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Grab bag (Week 18/2025)
The public sector strategy gap and how I plan to fill it; the public sector efficiency trap.
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Grab bag (Week 17/2025)
Tradeoffs; Bangkok, Marseille, hype, and legibility; billionaire group chats and Japanese cooking in the 1980s; code. Dogs.
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April 2025

Grab bag (Week 16/2025)
Strategic uncertainty; revelations and discoveries; video blahblah; coffee, smuggling, and subaks; Swiss tools and nonreversible work.
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Grab bag (Week 15/2025)
Mixing metaphors; a fine paste; describing consulting; workshop economics; experimenting well; alt-farming; wet sandwich logic.
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Grab bag (Week 14/2025)
Big-time uncertainty, the efficiency trap, doing better interviews, extractive tech, the semantic apocalypse, output indistinguishability.
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March 2025

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