Tag: #TheInformationLens

• The power of mathematical models for better policy decisions

  “Harnessing the power of mathematical models for better policy decisions” sets out four practical recommendations to help policymakers across a wide range of policy areas effectively capitalise on, and sidestep pitfalls of, using mathematical models for decision-making. Decision-makers are often keen to “follow the science” in highly-charged contexts such as climate policy, pandemic response, economic…

  walterstiers

  2025-04-15

  #Sensemaking, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Innovation Games, Practical Wisdom, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, AI, artificial-intelligence, education, philosophy, technology

• Nested hierarchies in skills – importance of basic education

  In many careers, a person must learn foundational skills before advancing deeper into their profession. Computer programmers need a solid foundation in basic mathematics; nurses must gain clinical experience and specialized training to become nurse practitioners; a negotiator’s ability to persuade depends on solid communication and active-listening skills. A recent paper published in Nature Human Behaviour mapped the dependency…

  walterstiers

  2025-04-15

  #sense-making, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, AI, artificial-intelligence, education, skills, technology

• Power of the Invisible

  “The Power of the Invisible: The Quantessence of Reality” from Sander Bais There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery. Enrico Fermi Quantum Physics is the solid basis of most of our understanding of…

  walterstiers

  2025-04-03

  Complexity, Creative Thinking, Information Technology, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #TheInformationLens, philosophy, physics, quantum-mechanics, quantum-physics, Science

• Greatness Cannot Be Planned

  Why does modern life revolve around objectives? From how science is funded, to improving how children are educated — and nearly everything in-between — our society has become obsessed with a seductive illusion: that greatness results from doggedly measuring improvement in the relentless pursuit of an ambitious goal. In Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned—The Myth of…

  walterstiers

  2025-04-02

  #Sensemaking, #Wicked, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Innovation Games, Life Ideas, Practical Wisdom, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, consciousness, history, philosophy, Science, spirituality

• 7 communication reasons organizations do not change

  “The seven communication reasons organizations do not change“ Results of this study point to the limitations of management and impersonal communication. Change is a messy business, and transformational change will not happen unless management is willing to tolerate the ambiguity and the sense that emerges in communication. Results also point to the importance of communication…

  walterstiers

  2025-04-01

  #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Information Technology, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #TheInformationLens

• Blink and you see it

  “Blink and you see it“ Every few seconds, our visual world disappears behind a thin fold of skin that maintains the tear film on the corneal surface and, for more than a tenth of a second, blocks light from falling onto the retina. “Blink and you miss it” is a common idiom that captures how…

  walterstiers

  2025-04-01

  #Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #Neuroscience, #TheInformationLens, brain, health, mental-health

• Perfectionism – anxiety symptoms

  “Personality organization and anxiety symptoms: Investigating the mediation of perfectionism“ Personality functioning has increasing significance in the assessment of mental health and mental disorders. Otto Kernberg’s model of personality organization is an extensively applied, theoretically grounded approach to categorizing the severity of personality impairment based on intrapsychic and interpersonal functioning. This study aimed to investigate…

  walterstiers

  2025-03-28

  Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, anxiety, health, mental-health, psychology, relationships

• “mundane behaviours resembles a drug”

  The problem extends across the globe. Researchers have studied compulsive shopping in many countries, including the United States, Turkey, Poland, Germany, India, Brazil, South Korea and Pakistan — where almost one-third of university students were classified as compulsive buyers in both physical stores and online.Heping He, a marketing researcher at Shenzhen University in China, is…

  walterstiers

  2025-03-06

  #sense-making, #stakeholder economy, Biology of Information

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #Neuroscience, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, addiction, anxiety, health, mental-health

• ‘We are kin to everything’

  From the Nature Briefing of March 5, 2025 In her hit 2013 book, Braiding Sweetgrass, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer, who is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, made the argument for bringing together knowledge from Western and Indigenous science. In The Serviceberry, she turns her microscope on the damaging disconnects between capitalist economics and the circular economy…

  walterstiers

  2025-03-05

  #stakeholder economy, Biology of Information, Life Ideas

  #DecisionIntelligence, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens

• A Drive to Survive

  “A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life“ How the purposive behavior of living systems outstrips the constraints of the free energy principle. Since 2005, Karl Friston’s proposal that the principle of free energy minimization underpins the purposive behavior of living agents has evolved through thousands of publications. This principle’s central…

  walterstiers

  2025-02-22

  #Sensemaking, Active Inference, Biology of Information, Information Technology, Life Ideas

  #ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens