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Amorphous consulting
Amorphous consulting is for the problems organizations can’t put words to yet.
Mar 27
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Vaughn Tan
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Transmission fidelity
How do we decide what makes a tool good and what kinds of tools we should aim to make? Read on for a new quality criterion for tools (their accuracy and…
Mar 14
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Vaughn Tan
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February 2024
Payback time
In which I pay for sea turtles in Costa Rica with unexpectedly crummy flooring and an ensuing DIY rabbithole.
Feb 28
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Vaughn Tan
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Strategies for different uncertainties
Words and tools to help those who "get" uncertainty help those who don't.
Feb 14
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January 2024
Low-drag machines
Startup founders, leaders, and workers who can distinguish clearly between risk and uncertainty are able to rewire their startups to be better at…
Jan 25
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Good value governance
Distinguishing clearly between uncertainty and risk is crucial ... because it makes governance better and cheaper in an increasingly uncertain world.
Jan 12
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Vaughn Tan
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December 2023
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.
Dec 28, 2023
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Vaughn Tan
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The hot-air balloon conference
Conventional conferences with fixed speakers, tracks, and panels are like trains. To stimulate new practical thinking in emergent areas, a conference…
Dec 13, 2023
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Vaughn Tan
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November 2023
"Good" questions
Getting useful answers depends on asking good questions, and foundationality is a key criterion in determining whether a question is “good.” A question…
Nov 29, 2023
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Vaughn Tan
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Bits and pieces.
This issue is about a visit to Seoul last week, and how it connected some previously fragmented thoughts about illegibility, meaning-making, and…
Nov 15, 2023
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Vaughn Tan
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Well-framed problems
Well-framed problems are good strategies for coordinating innovative action across diverse and unexpected domains. What does "well-framed" mean? A…
Nov 1, 2023
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October 2023
Rethinking organisation technology
This issue is about using open-ended roles with negotiated joining to build organisations that are unfrozen from the start, and good at uncertainty work…
Oct 18, 2023
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