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  1. Mar 2025
    1. Anne-Laure Le Cunff - How to Design Tiny Experiments Like a Scientist ‪@neuranne‬

      • generation effect
      • definitions of success: did you learn something new as a mode for preventing failure (-10:00)
      • curiosity as motivation (-12:30)
      • George R. R. Martin's essay on "architects and gardeners" (and librarians) (and students (via Tiago Forte)).
      • did they miss the prior versions of gardening?
      • Pareto principle for 80% gardener and 20% architect

      • ME: reading fiction can be used as a means of diffuse thinking in combination with combinatorial creativity

  2. Mar 2023
  3. Dec 2022
    1. Labs can be a useful piece of the innovation puzzle if managers adopt a systems-thinking strategy, thinking more about their role within the wider government, department or company. They need to shape a culture within the whole organisation that is more open to new ideas, and this could be addressed by focusing more on communication.

      This seems to be the key element here: systems-thinking approach and thinking about our role within our departments.

  4. Sep 2021
    1. The press is full of reports that President Biden screwed up the pullout from Afghanistan. But none of the people saying he did it wrong say what he should have done instead.

      I've noticed this phenomenon as well. When criticizing public policy, writers should be required to write down their alternate plans and then go at least one or two levels deep as to the knock on effects that their decisions are likely to have.

      It's easy to criticize, but it's much harder to do the actual work and thinking to actually do something else.

  5. Apr 2020
  6. Nov 2017