The Uncertainty Mindset (soon to become tbd)

The Uncertainty Mindset (soon to become tbd)

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Meaningmaking at work.
To build successful AI applications, product management must comprehend meaningmaking — making subjective decisions about the relative values of things.
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AI's meaning-making problem.
Current AI discourse doesn't talk about human meaning-making — subjective decisions about value that AI systems can't make, which are nonetheless…
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Introducing not-knowing.
This issue introduces not-knowing as a concept and argues for why we should care about it especially at this time in history. It's the opener for a book…
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Amorphous consulting
Amorphous consulting is for the problems organizations can’t put words to yet.
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“Leaky beans.”
A 25-min audio issue about adapting to uncertainty, featuring an interview with Stephen Williams and Raef Hodgson from 40 Maltby Street and Gergovie…
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Re-learning productive discomfort
idk v3.0 is now available worldwide. In this newsletter issue, find out more about why productive discomfort is crucial for learning and being…
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Don't wait until it's obvious.
Misdiagnosing risk as uncertainty feels fine—until it isn’t. The real danger is realizing it too late.
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A war on Stuff
An end-of-year reflection on how hard it is to design systems that don't accumulate crap — and why it is essential to do so.
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Thinking together about not-knowing.
Join me for a series of monthly online discussions about not-knowing, why it is important to think clearly about it, and tools for living with it. This…
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Where AI wins.
What AI systems do better than humans, and why the most valuable AI workflows will be those in which AI systems and humans work interdependently on what…
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AI's missing middle
AI investment is missing a huge opportunity in the form of industry-specific AI apps designed to integrate with legacy business processes in…
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Approaching the wood
How — and why — I'm trying to understand not-knowing ... but explained through the lens of two approaches to working in wood. YMMV.
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