"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones."- John Maynard Keynes...and escaping the old ones is a monumental task when a bad idea, once entrenched, becomes the source of it's own self-propagating rationale and serves as a limiting filter on the percolation of new cognitive methods and new…
Of Organisational Silos, Polymaths and the History of Art
It is interesting to observe that many, many wise benedictions on the topic of breaking down silos and valourising polymaths exist but it is questionable as to the extent of the actual application, acceptance or widespread acceptance of the associated concepts. Disassembling silos is vital for the emergence of scale-independent, adaptive, flexible and resilient self-organisational…
Understanding Innovation
What is a significant innovation? What are the most algorithmically concise paths in any recombinatory possibility-space between significant innovations?
Logical Insight into Living Systems
Subjecting our concepts of self and world to radical reconfiguration and a creative recombinatory metamorphosis is a certain path to cultivating insight, innovation and discovery.
The Utility of Ambiguity
It appears that a degree of ambiguity may be an inverse function of the generalised utility of any concept.
Creativity and Innovation versus Institutional Intransigence
Radically divergent (or convergent) approaches face uphill battles against an entrenched intellectual intransigence and institutional conservatism.
Will Technology make us Stupid ?
Will technology make us stupid ? Or is there more creative and innovative opportunity than ever before to be derived from our tools of cognitive extension ?
Rage 2.0: Leveling Up
We may, culturally and symbolically, be collectively imprisoned by an adherence to a narrative of conflict, difference and aggressive conquest...
The Problem With Culture Wars
The profoundly reflexive symmetries underlying individual beliefs and formalised methods of governance are likely not remediable through the same mechanistic and reductionist conceptual frameworks which birthed these complex problems...
Perseus’ Shield
No one quite does lateral and innovative thinking like the protagonists of Ancient Greek mythology...
Swimming Upstream
Swimming upstream...
Transformative Problem-Solving
Organisational transformation is not so much about working within the existing rules as it may be about reconfiguring and extending the underlying axioms and rules of organisational structure, information and energy flow such as to generate new rules and new possibilities of organisational structure and system.
