Archive - The Uncertainty Mindset (soon to become tbd)

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 •

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 •

June 2025

Tool-building (wk 26/2025)

Uncomfortable questions about unknowns; building AI tools for better meaning-making; problems, learned helplessness, performance, comfort, and…

Jun 30 •

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…

Jun 22 •

Severely overinsulated (wk 24/2025)

Hot air balloon conferences; ideal-typical convenings; open space; delicious trash foods in South Australia.

Jun 13 •

Public strategy (wk 23/25)

A symphony of freshness; not-so-monolithic problems; public sector strategy; now-ish; Old Skool methods; sauna talk; signs.

Jun 5 •

May 2025

Slice nerd (wk 20/25)

Pizza nerd; talking (or not-talking) about not-knowing; partial light transmission (and photos of same).

May 25 •

Architecture tourist (wk 19/25)

Product and service strategy; amorphous consulting; Guastavino arches; Chinese Rooms and vampirism; Louise Nevelson

May 19 •

Grab bag (Week 18/2025)

The public sector strategy gap and how I plan to fill it; the public sector efficiency trap.

May 9 •

Grab bag (Week 17/2025)

Tradeoffs; Bangkok, Marseille, hype, and legibility; billionaire group chats and Japanese cooking in the 1980s; code. Dogs.

May 2 •

April 2025

Grab bag (Week 16/2025)

Strategic uncertainty; revelations and discoveries; video blahblah; coffee, smuggling, and subaks; Swiss tools and nonreversible work.

Apr 25 •

Grab bag (Week 15/2025)

Mixing metaphors; a fine paste; describing consulting; workshop economics; experimenting well; alt-farming; wet sandwich logic.

Apr 18 •

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