Surtil :

the lost art of accomplishment without burnout

The book “Slow Productivity The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout” by Cal Newport. An excerpt is available on the author’s website: “When I first encountered the story of John McPhee’s long days looking up at the leaves in his backyard — a scene from a time long past, when those who made a living…

walterstiers

2024-07-30

Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, cal-newport, productivity, slow-productivity
music and aging | Bayesian inference

“Understanding music and aging through the lens of Bayesian inference“ Bayesian inference has recently gained momentum in explaining music perception and aging. A fundamental mechanism underlying Bayesian inference is the notion of prediction. This framework could explain how predictions pertaining to musical (melodic, rhythmic, harmonic) structures engender action, emotion, and learning, expanding related concepts of music…

walterstiers

2024-07-29

Active Inference, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

#ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens
The Edge of Sentience

“The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI.” by Jonathan Birch Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects, or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences?…

walterstiers

2024-07-29

#Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked, AI, artificial-intelligence, consciousness, sentience
exploring One Health

The eco-epidemiology of zoonoses is often oversimplified to host-pathogen interactions while findings derived from global datasets are rarely directly transferable to smaller-scale contexts. Through a systematic literature search, we compiled a dataset of naturally occurring zoonotic interactions in Austria, spanning 1975–2022. We introduce the concept of zoonotic web to describe the complex relationships between zoonotic…

walterstiers

2024-07-29

#Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Complexity, Life Ideas, Science

#ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, biodiversity, climate-change, health
“you have to be sincere”

3 Ideas for Communicating Across the Political Divide by Isaac Saul (TED) Does the simple message “1,000 illegal aliens were arrested by US Border Patrol after crossing the southern border on Monday.”give the same message as “1,000 undocumented immigrants turned themselves in to US Border Patrol after crossing the southern border on Monday.” First, we…

walterstiers

2024-07-16

#Sensemaking, Life Ideas, Policy, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens
Lead with purpose, govern in partnership

Also by Professor Mazzucato from the IIPP: “MISSION CRITICAL 01 Statecraft for the 21st century“ This research draws on expert interviews and builds out from the seminal work of author Professor Mariana Mazzucato at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). She has established clear criteria for missions (Mazzucato, 2019) and made the case for mission-oriented government (Mazzucato,…

walterstiers

2024-07-15

#sense-making, #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, economy, government
Countries must decide what missions can help direct their economies.

Industrial strategy is experiencing a renaissance. Getting the details right matter. Mission-oriented industrial strategy needs to be more than words if we want to avoid missions becoming part of the problem, not the solution. This report (Mission-oriented industrial strategy: global insights) is based on research conducted over the past several years, led by Professor Mazzucato and…

walterstiers

2024-07-15

#sense-making, #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, #Wicked, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Policy, Science, Social-Technical, Sustainability

#DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #ProblemSolvingMind, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, business, economy, leadership, management
Tim ‘S Jongers legt armoede uit aan mensen met geld

“Armoede uitgelegd aan mensen met geld” van Tim ‘S Jongers is een meer dan waardevol boek om te lezen. In een land geregeerd door welvarende, hoger opgeleide mensen wordt op een beperkte en soms zelfs schadelijke manier naar armoede gekeken. Mensen met geld snappen niet wat armoede is – en toch gaan zij over de…

walterstiers

2024-07-12

#stakeholder economy, Complexity, Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked, mental-health
nature was much more inventive

Space scientist Edward Stone served as project scientist for NASA’s Voyager missions for 50 years, as well as playing a major role in many other missions, acting as director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and running his own lab at Caltech. Stone has died, aged 88. Here are some remarkable quotes from “Celebrating Voyager’s 40…

walterstiers

2024-07-10

#Sensemaking, #Wicked, Complexity, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #TheInformationLens
Facts Don’t – Stories Do

I want to share the great article on LSE by Anna Toomey on “Facts Don’t Change Minds – Social Networks, Group Dialogue, and Stories Do”, based upon the author’s article Why facts don’t change minds: Insights from cognitive science for the improved communication of conservation research, published in Biological Conservation. It is counterintuitive (and not a…

walterstiers

2024-07-08

#sense-making, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Information Technology, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, education, philosophy, Science, Sustainability