Weeknote 27/2024
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I’m writing this before the EUROs final between Spain and England but after Carlos Alcaraz absolutely demolished Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon Men’s singles final. I’m tired after having a migraine this morning due to a disturbed night’s sleep — for reasons I’d rather not get into. I’ve also spent time in the swimming pool with my daughter walking backwards and forwards through the water for rehabilitation as she recovers from a knee injury.
This week I’ve decided to have a bit of a summer digital detox, and tried to catch up with some MSc work:
- The role of phenomenology in systems thinking
- Russell Ackoff as a systems thinking pioneer
- Chris Argyris and his influence on systems thinking and organisational development
- Introduction to Strategic Options and Development Analysis (SODA)
- Block 3 People stream references
- Lateral Thinking, Transitional Objects, and Metaphors
- Ambiguity and cognitive biases
- Going beyond WEIRD biases
- Old and new mode thinking errors
- Human gizmos and time-binding
- Intuitive and rational thinking
- Block 3 Tools stream references
WAO had the internal kick-off meeting for the new Job Readiness Credentials project we’re starting with JFF, IRC, and Participate. I wrote about it in this blog post. The client kick-off meeting is tomorrow. I’m looking forward to getting stuck into it. Somewhat cheekily, I’ve already submitted a proposal related to it for ePIC 2024 which will be in Paris in November. I’ve also submitted a workshop proposal based on mapping Open Recognition skills using AI.
I did some work on the comms and storytelling project with the DCC as we finish that off, sent out the ORE announcement for this month, and submitted a proposal to Friends of the Earth for some Mozilla-funded work around ‘Greening AI’. I’ve set up an instance of Writebook, which has a fantastic UI and with which Laura and I have already started experimenting. She’s also been working on designing us a new website (still WIP).
There’s not much else to say other than we had an exercise bike delivered which syncs with various apps so we can do some virtual cycling, I booked my place for the Systems Innovation Conference 2024 (London, September), and I’ve done a bit more planning for our family holiday to the Azores in just over two weeks.
Next week, I’ll be working on the Job Readiness Credentials project, putting in proposals for more new work, collaborating with my colleagues during a co-op half-day, and supporting my family. It’s the last week of school for our two teenagers, and for our youngest it’s her last week at middle school!
