Pardon the copying below, but I just had to include this on the blog since I discovered this stuff this morning. After my post yesterday citing Miller, I thought it my duty. Edward Tufte has a long series of post and comments on the mis-reading and mis-use of George Miller’s article. Here are some excerpts [...]
“Joinery” refers both to the craft of a joiner, someone who makes things by joining together pieces of wood, and to the premises from which the craft is practiced.
Concepts
How our thinking is “entrained”
David Snowden talks about how our thinking/doing is entrained. I wasn’t familiar with the word when I first heard it used in a podcast of one of his presentations. I think he’s getting at how we have habitual patterns of thinking, of conceiving without considering the assumptions we have taken for granted. It is like [...]
A way of thinking about values, themes & archetypes
Some of us have difficulty wrapping our minds around the values, themes and archetypes extracted from the narrative fragments collected during anecdote circles with the Cognitive Edge methodology. Why? For what reason? What purpose do they serve?
It just occurred to me that an analogy with an term from complexity science might help. It has helped [...]
Rob Bell does a good job in describing “context” …
in this YouTube video from an appearance he made at last month’s Greenbelt. Describing and capturing context plays an important, crucial even, part in realistic evaluation and complexity.
In this snippet Bell begins talking about “out of the box.” But stick with it and he’ll take you on a word trip which illustrates very well what [...]
A primer on emergence/complexity on the Fast Forward blog
A Rob Peterson is doing a three-part series on emergence on Fast Forward. He’s posted parts 1 and 2 which I found helpful as I try to get a handle on complexity or complex adaptive systems (cas) as an evaluator.
He uses this video clip from a Nova program. It conveys a little bit about [...]
The lost evaluation/planning tool: Logic-of-action model
The following is a rekeyed copy of a paper presented by Norman Webb at the 1999 AERA annual meeting in Montreal, Quebec. As I recall he was part of a session on new ideas, new something on evaluation. I was there at his session and I was taken by the “tool” of logic-of-action. Theory of [...]
When I read “business is … about decision taking” I had
one of those “zing” experiences when things are neatly summed up into a single, simple nugget. Decision making, or as Thierry de Baillon phrases it, “decision taking,” has been bouncing around my writings and ponderings for awhile, particularly as regard to management. Then I read this in a post by de Baillon of a trilogy [...]
More on the two (or more) systems for decision-making
I’ve come across a further discourse on the two systems for making decisions that I mentioned in the post on Kahneman, one speedy, immediate and intuitive and one slower, reflective and rational. Before I quote this new stuff, let me mention that the folks over at CAST, Center for Applied Special Technology, have long championed [...]
We need a psychological/sociological equivalent of the Moebus Strip
Yesterday I got thru rereading Raymond Brown’s 1979 study of the gospel and epistles of John, The Community of the Beloved Disciple: The Life, Loves, and Hates of an Individual Church in New Testament Times (Paulist Press). I found it extremely exciting, stimulating and thought-provoking much more than the first time I went through it. [...]
“Even the scientist’s eye is not innocent”- Hermeneutics & the natural sciences
What we see is shaped by what we believe, or what we want to believe. Here’s a look at making “science” with hermeneutics in the forefront. These paragraphs are on Page 327 in Kevin Vanhoozer’s First Theology: God, Scripture & Hermeneutics (Downers Grove, Il: InterVarsity Press, 2002).
The extension of hermeneutics beyond its original home in [...]