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#149 Cynefin at 21 - with Dave Snowden

Being Human

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How to Reverse Ashby's Law

Ashby said, the only variety can match variety. So as you get increased variety of stimulus, you have to have increasing resources allocated to response. You do things the terrorists doesn't know how to handle and that forces them to become more visible. That's what we do with sense making. We look at the dispositional state, and then we change the structure of the state. And when the energy gradients are right, then we trigger change. This is if you look at nudge economics. I actually don't buy the nudge unit. I think they're manipulative. No, what we do is when the system is ready to make a transgenerational pairing, people in the

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