Contrarians Who Make (or Made) Sense
1811 Inside Jerry's Brain call: Where's the Line Between Kooks and Precogs?
2022-03-08 Scaffolding Call with Pete and WendyE
2022-07-21 OGM Check-in Call
2022-10 My Unfinished Keynote: A Worldview Built from Contrarians (U22)
Alice Miller (born Alicija Englard)
bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins)
Christopher Alexander (CA)
Hans Monderman (1947-2008)
Leonard Shlain (1937-2009)
Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933)
Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi
Paul Feyerabend (1924-1994)
Virginia Satir (1916-1988)
Contrarians Are Important
Controversial Points of View
Contrarians Who Don't Make Sense
Ideologies That Lost (and may have been right)
The Boundary between Heretics and Crazies
Walkouts (turn their backs on the dominant system to try something new; trailblazers)
"When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic."
#BLM Is White People's Problem
A Healthy Entity Has Yin and Yang in Balance
Adam Ruins Everything (2015 on College Humor)
All Corporations Should Become for Benefits
AlphaZero Illustrates Computer Creativity
Animals Are More Intelligent Than We Think
Any "orphaned, " connected device in the field >5 years has been p0wn3d
Articles About Sensemaking
Articles that Shake up the Conventional Wisdom
Ask What People Need. Then Help.
Attention Is the Rarest and Purest Kind of Generosity
Authors I Disagree With Often
Automation Isn't the Problem - How We Organize Society Is
Ba (a context that harbors meaning)
Being Heard and Respected, Then Exploring Alternatives
Belief Is a Kind of Blindness
Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza (1632-1677)
Books Are Static Souvenirs, Snapshots of Thoughts at a Moment in Time. Their Online Presence Should Be Much Richer.
Businesses Are Waking up to the Human Side
Children/Youth Are Far More Capable Than We Think
Cities Are Where the Interesting Action Is
Cognitive Edge SenseMaker Software Suite
Collaborative Sensemaking
Colonialism Has Come Back to Bite the Colonizers
Communities Are Like Mushrooms
Consumerization Has Made Us Stupider than We Otherwise Would Be
Contingencies, Accidents and Conjunctures
Contrarian Ideas I Believe
Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM)
Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
Cynefin (five domain framework)
Each Person Is the Center of Their Own Universe
ELI5 (explained like I'm 5 years old)
Emotion and Membership Trump Reason Most of the Time. Stories Are the Vessel.
Emulating Humans Is the Wrong Goal for Robots and Machine Intelligence
Ethan Blogs My Outside-In PUSH Talk (2005)
Everything is Deeply Intertwingled
Everything You Know About X Is Wrong
Executives Who Mislead Should Be Punished
Extrinsic Rewards Erode Intrinsic Motivation and Authentic Connection
Facilitating Emergence and Sensemaking in Organizations
Favorite Models for Sensemaking amid Complexity
Faxes Were a Decade-Long Detour before the Internet Arrived
Four Separations of Consumerization
Gingrich Created the Current Political Rift in America
Give Away Your Best Ideas
Glia Are Much More Important than We Usually Think
Having a Point of View Simplifies Dealing with the Future
Heretics! The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy (2017)
Hierarchies Should Be Temporary and Local
How Might We Blend the Best of the Old and New?
How We React to Events Is Incredibly Important
Human History Is a Struggle Over the Joystick. Narratives Are Primary Weapons in This Battle.
Humans need to be heard before they will listen.
I call Econometrics "how to lie with numbers"
I’m Glad I Was Born when I Was
If We Kill the Oceans, We Kill All Life on Earth
I'm Sorry: This Law Is Iron?
In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business (2018)
Individualism Sold Us off the Common Good
IP Protection Destroys Creativity
Is Trauma Necessary for Greatness?
It Is Sad that We Have to Teach Empathy
It's Hard for People to Invent New Behaviors
Jerry's Brain and the Heresies it Contains
Language Shapes Expectations
Lies Are Extremely Powerful
Loyalty Is a Very Dangerous Force
Machine Learning Will "Outplay" Human Soldiers
Making Robots in Our Image Is a Mistake
Many Unnatural Beliefs Are Socialized into Us
Maverick (1993, but 1998 as Turning the Tables)
Maximizing Shareholder Value (or Profits) Damages Humanity
Milo Yiannopoulos (was Milo Wagner)
Move Upstream Until Your Actions Can be Effective
Much Social Strife Happens when Narratives Justify Oppression and Sanction Unfair Advantage
My Aha!s About Soil and Growing/Raising Food
Native Americans Were More Numerous and Sophisticated Than We Think
Nonmilitary Means Have Exceeded the Power of Weapons
Online Communities Can Lead to More Offline Interactions
Originals are constructive contrarians.
Our Beliefs Shape What We See
Our Bodies Are like Chemistry Sets
Our Minds Are Very Fallible
Our Minds Extend Beyond Our Physical Brains
Our Modernist Lenses Blind Us to Many Important Things
Our Understanding Lags Our Actions by Decades
Outlaws Who Impose Justice
People Are Extremely (Often Dangerously) Adaptable
People Are Generally More Trustworthy than We Think They Are
People Born After 2000 Will Have Good Chance of Living to Be 200
People Deeply Fear Ostracism
People Have Different Preferences
People with Nothing to Lose Are the Most Dangerous
Permalinks Are Essential to Memory and Civilization
Post-Formal Actors inside Organizations: from Deviants to Lifeboats - with Bonnitta Roy (podcast)
Postmodernists Were Right, Just Too Early and Too Arcane
Poverty Is a Man-made Problem, not a Natural Occurrence
Power and Politics Usually Trump Reason and What's Right
Practical reasoning is often less about figuring out what’s true, and more about staying in the right tribe. (bing!)
Prejudice Is Taught, Not Inherent
Preserving Untouched Wilderness Is Wrong - We Should Mind the Gardens
Radical Thinkers (series)
Rebel Wisdom: Sensemaking 101
Recursive Mutually Reinforcing Rings of Dysfunction
Relationships Are the Fabric of Society. Our Small Interdependencies Are the Warp and Woof.
Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers and Rebels (2013)
Rewards (and Measurements) Often Don't Work
Richard Nelson Bolles (RNB)
Science Keeps Convincing Us It's Figured Out the Mechanisms (but it hasn't)
Sensemaking (information science)
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Contrarians Who Make (or Made) Sense
