Steve Whitla @swhitla
Visual thinking + Systems thinking = Making the world a more meaningful place meaning.guide Oxford, England Joined December 2011-
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You can now pre-order the Kindle edition of the Personal Knowledge Graphs book. personalknowledgegraphs.com #PKG #KnowledgeGraphs #TfT
When George Orwell worked at KPMG meaning.guide/index.php/2023…
"Every time I work or give I discover a little bit more about why I am." - Etsko Schuitema
It’s weird how certain everyone sounds in their opinions about AI safety (in twitter replies to me). My academic papers about AI have been cited ~5000 times, so I’m not completely ignorant— and I don’t have a clue. Maybe y’all could try to be a little less certain too?
Whenever I look at the Theory U diagram I think of the Amazon logo, which is not the association you want really
Disney film contains surprisingly deep insights into systems practice … meaning.guide/index.php/2022…
If the purpose of a system is what it does, there must be some interesting parallels between the ISO Catalogue and the DSM
This was so much fun, what better way to end the year than by talking shared meaning with some crazy data scientists in Texas. You guys are awesome - thanks for having me on.
This was so much fun, what better way to end the year than by talking shared meaning with some crazy data scientists in Texas. You guys are awesome - thanks for having me on.
Just came across this page in a popular EA text, and thinking how the medium really is the message. That this information is being expressed in this tone is a much better indication of why the problems exist than any of the suggestions in the actual text
I haven't had time to write much this year, but these thoughts have been percolating for the last six months since reading Walter Isaacson's biography of Leonardo, and contrasting Leonardo's approach with my day-to-day experience of management consulting: meaning.guide/index.php/2021…
Be who you needed when you were younger.
This is what happens when some of your family buy birthday presents from your Amazon list and others from novelty shops
Wow, look at how non-linear this is. Looking here thirdsummerinrussia.blogspot.com/2017/09/dostoe… this is apparently what became the Grand Inquisitor parable, one of the most affecting things I've ever read.
Wow, look at how non-linear this is. Looking here thirdsummerinrussia.blogspot.com/2017/09/dostoe… this is apparently what became the Grand Inquisitor parable, one of the most affecting things I've ever read.
"Having brought the silos down, silo-fighters are faced with all the problems that were continuously solved by the silos during theirlifespan." How much pain could be avoided if well meaning management consultants realised this? @kvistgaard in Essential Balances (p127)
“Modern universities are full of people who postured with concepts. And yet, these are the people who have to change as the next wave of digitalization sweeps over us. I suspect it's not going to be an easy ride.” Deontic power meet digital economy. Fascinating.
“Modern universities are full of people who postured with concepts. And yet, these are the people who have to change as the next wave of digitalization sweeps over us. I suspect it's not going to be an easy ride.” Deontic power meet digital economy. Fascinating.
What’s next in our #bizarchbookshelf series? It’s “Visualising Business Transformation: Pictures, Diagrams and the Pursuit of Shared Meaning” by Jonathan Whelan and @swhitla. amzn.to/3tuOQF5 #businessarchitecture #bizarch
If you were to re-title all of your organisation's "Our values" posters so that they better described what they actually were, what would you write? meaning.guide/index.php/2021…

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