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💕 all work aimed at creating something new involves not-knowing

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I published a book based on >10 years of field research about the kind of mindset that truly innovative people and teams have. This is a mindset that sees the differences between uncertainty and risk, and which is able to use uncertainty as a prompt for doing new things. This mindset also happens to produce ways of organising teams and businesses so that they are more innovative.

More about the book here: https://uncertaintymindset.org/index.html#reviews

Available in bookstores and online at all the usual places.

idk is a tool for productive discomfort. Each of its 52 cards prompts you to do something uncomfortable that is structured to stimulate learning and growth. Users say it is "sneakily life-changing" and "unexpectedly important." idk is designed to be used indefinitely.

https://www.productivediscomfort.org/

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Meaningmaking can happen in self-evidently significant ways. One e.g. of Big Meaningmaking: ICJ oral proceedings on indiv states' obligations to protect the present and the future against anthropogenic climate change.

tl;dr: Subjective value decisions are the domain of meaningmaking. These proceedings are high-stakes meaningmaking with consequences for us today and into the future.

Only humans can (and should) do meaningmaking: uncertaintymindset.substack.com/i/144865578/...

Summary of day 1 of the ICJ hearings: enb.iisd.org/events/inter...

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la grande candelle, in the calanques of marseille

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i just wrote about the strategic virtues of the small-TAM tech company — the kind that will never get VC funding but is nonetheless essential for robust real-world economies and the hoped-for widespread adoption of AI.

read here: https://uncertaintymindset.substack.com/p/sweetspot

tl;dr version: these small-TAM tech companies have
1. big but underserved markets
2. serious competitive moat from small TAM
3. can get big, but in sustainable not silly ways

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ramping up using idk decks for strategy training and capability development.

i designed idk as a tool for learning how to become more comfortable with uncertainty. these decks are headed for the innovation team of a global [redacted] corporation.

more info here: www.productivediscomfort.org

or drop me a note if you want to chat about idk and building org capacity for uncertainty...

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just ran a board workshop for a multinational insurance co on using scenarios for strategy

currently have so many thoughts on how the insurance business understands the difference between uncertainty and risk

(and also on how scenarios can be used in different ways for taking concrete nearterm strategy action)

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