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Making sense of sensemaking 3
I made it along to the fourth Cognitive Edge European Network meetup this afternoon at Middlesex University and in common with the two previous sessions I’ve made it to, it was completely different. This time we used Open Space to allow an agenda to emerge from the subjects proposed by attendees. Julian ran a session [...]
Making sense of sensemaking
Friday’s Cognitive Edge network meetup saw practitioners from around Europe, most of whom I hadn’t met before, descend on A La Bécasse to share experiences and work on a Sensemaker project about sensemaking. Tony showed some of the findings from the Mexico leg of Children Of World in an informal session full of practical insight. [...]
Start making sense
Last time I was in Portland Place the roads were closed, 5,000 people were on the street, Bono had scaled Broadcasting House and seemed about to plant a flag to commemorate U2′s takeover of the BBC. Happily, my return finds he’s been coaxed down, the roads are once more full of traffic. I’m going to [...]
Human-Machine Symbiosis for Data Interpretation – Dave Snowden
Off to University College London yesterday afternoon to see Dave Snowden’s presentation for The International Society for Knowledge Organisation. This amounted to Dave’s Introduction to Complexity lecture, which I’ve now seen three times in the last six months, so perhaps it’s time to delve a bit deeper into the material. Nonetheless, it was an enjoyable [...]
An engaging Tuesday…
Two engagement events on Tuesday: one highlighting the need for evolutionary change, the other examined the problems managers face every day. Not many people get to travel to the top of the BT tower, which might partly explain why Tuesday afternoon’s Gurteen Knowledge Café was so heavily oversubscribed. Add Dave Snowden speaking about complexity and [...]
Imprinting failure to succeed
“When Arthur had been a boy at school, long before the Earth had been demolished, he had used to play football. He had not been at all good at it, and his particular speciality had been scoring own goals in important matches. Whenever this happened he used to experience a peculiar tingling round the back [...]
Cognitive Edge accreditation – Day 3
It seemed lighter when I woke up this morning. And the birds were singing, which I didn’t notice yesterday until I was ready to leave. I am contemplating relaxing for longer while waiting for my alarm when a sickening feeling hits me. I reach for my phone, which I’ve left plugged in and charging all [...]
Cognitive Edge accreditation – Day 2
Day two and I am on schedule, catching the 6:42am train and settling down with an episode of “Cold Case”. The journey is trouble-free and I collect a coffee en route to the London Wetlands Centre which looks cheerier under blue skies. Social Network Stimulation The morning session begins with some commentary on natural numbers [...]
Cognitive Edge accreditation – Day 1
Day one of the accreditation course dawns overcast but not cold. Up at 5:00am, I find my 6:45am train actually leaves at 6:42am, so I miss it despite running all the way to the station – which is noticeably further to run now we’ve moved house. I lament not having organised everything the night before [...]
Tales from the riverbank
Each morning during the first half of this week I’ll be getting up at 5:00am, catching an early train to London followed by the tube to Hammersmith. Twenty years ago there were three things to travel to Hammersmith for: Hammersmith Palais (Echo and the Bunnymen ’84, The Alarm ’84, ’85) Hammersmith Odeon (The Alarm ’85, [...]
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