Category: Creative Thinking

• Wetenschap of overtuiging?Democratie en kapitalisme – wat is er nu gaande

  Prof Koen Schoors gebruikt in zijn lezing bij de Universiteit Vlaanderen, “Kan een democratie bestaan zonder kapitalisme?“ (ook beschikbaar als podcast en in een krantenartikel) een aantal veronderstellingen die hij niet verduidelijkt. Dit is jammer, want meer uitleg had de toehoorder doen begrijpen dat de onderbouw ontbreekt. Ondertussen is in de wetenschap voldoende inzicht om…

  walterstiers

  2021-12-13

  #stakeholder economy, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Social-Technical, Sustainability

  #DecisionIntelligence, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

• The Power Of Us – Group Decisions @ “Behavior Change For Good”

  Jay Van Bavel, and Dominic Packer have written a new book titled, The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony. It examines how group affiliations influence behavior and inspire both personal and social change. During the BEHAVIOR CHANGE FOR GOOD INITIATIVE interview, Van Bavel talks about why he and…

  walterstiers

  2021-11-24

  Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Neurobiology/psychology, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• Use complexity as a weapon … (but you might fail)

  From Tunnel Vision to Lateral Vision – In the Media & Elsewhere with Gillian Tett, a very short vido speech shared by the Sante Fe Institute, has a very nice reflection on why society accepts crisises like the financial-2008 Use complexity as a weapon The closing statement of the short fragment tells it all: “If…

  walterstiers

  2021-11-09

  Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Social-Technical

• Designing for Human-AI interaction is hard. (So steal like an artist :-)

  Following is and interesting article/blog , and just “stolen like an artist” from https://www.simonoregan.com/short-thoughts/the-design-difficulties-of-human-ai-interaction Designing for Human-AI interaction is hard. Here Yang et al. catalog where designers run into problems when applying the traditional 4Ds process to designing AI systems. These difficulties can be broadly attributed to two sources: This uncertainty and complexity combination then…

  walterstiers

  2021-10-29

  AI, Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Design Thinking, Information Technology

  #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens

• Bernard Haitink – The orchestral master in “magic of true leadership”

  Next to information sciences, I’ve also a passion for orchestral music.As such, I feel sad about the end of a living legend. Luckily, the recordings will remain, and I had the pleasure to attend (at the BPO concert hall) his last performance of Bruckner 7 with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductors have the great power of…

  walterstiers

  2021-10-22

  Creative Thinking, Life Ideas

  #BernardHaitink

• Complicated, Complex, Wicked – All Together to innovate…

  Innovation benefits and requires a wicked systems approach, which merges complicated and complex system thinking. Claes Anderssona and Petter Törnberga explain in a very well detailed article the details and reasoning behind, to be summarized as: Some more details I would like to highlight are: Approaches embodying a topdown rather than a bottom-up approach to…

  walterstiers

  2021-10-21

  Complexity, Creative Thinking, Design Thinking, Science, Social-Technical

  #Wicked

• Less = More, “Lets Kill”

  One of the great readings recently was the article from Adams, G.S., Converse, B.A., Hales, A.H. et al. in Nature: People systematically overlook subtractive changes. The summary video, clearly marks the point: Experiments show that people default to adding as a solution in various situations. It appears to be an uncommon insight. When solving problems, people prefer adding…

  walterstiers

  2021-10-06

  Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking

  #TheInformationLens

• The magic of walking ….

  I already suggested once: “Maybe – in this upcoming world of AI – we should not just walk on our own, but also ask our AI system to take a break and reflect on the good nature of its activities.” This suggestion is maybe more challenging for the AI and relevant for humans, according to…

  walterstiers

  2021-09-27

  Biology of Information, Creative Thinking

• Reading: Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth

  I want to share a good reading on a very actual and important (heating to hot) topic. Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there, published in “Energy Research & Social Science, Vol.70” and available on open access @ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101724 Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research…

  walterstiers

  2021-09-17

  Complexity, Creative Thinking, Social-Technical, Sustainability

  #Ecosystem

• The most interesting design problem is your life.

  This blog is based on “How to use design thinking to create a happier life for yourself“, which combines the great tools and mindset of design thinking for making life choices. At Stanford, Dave Evans and Bill Burnett teach a class called “Designing Your Life,” which led the book Designing Your Life, Designing Your Work Life and a…

  walterstiers

  2021-08-25

  Creative Thinking, Design Thinking, Life Ideas