AI tools that support critical thinking; not-knowings, on demand; organisational interventions for uncertainty; subliminal learning, K4, satisfying toys, cat trains, bromism, and convincing others.| uncertaintymindset.substack.com
tl;dr: Categories aren’t academic conceits—they’re tools that enable more effective practical action. If you care about making AI work in real-world| vaughntan.org
tl;dr: I’m looking for — or would like to build — games that operationalise true uncertainty, not just simple risk, to help players become better at| vaughntan.org
This week I was in Healdsburg hanging around at Edge Esmeralda. Several of the conversations I ended up in were about the conundrums and unsolved| vaughntan.org
This is a summary of the fifth session in the InterIntellect series on not-knowing, which happened on 18 May 2023. Upcoming: “Actions and results,”| vaughntan.org
This issue is about how we respond to the unknown with either false confidence or uncritical capitulation, and why we need a third way that navigates between these two extremes.| uncertaintymindset.substack.com
This article is about the complicated emotional backdrop for why we don’t think clearly about situations of not-knowing. Why does this matter?| vaughntan.org
This issue is about sensing when something has an inside which is coherent with its outside. It ranges over the Golden Triangle (of the Luberon), stone walls in New England, the Auvergne, and the south of France, crappy particleboard furniture, and the genesis for my current preoccupation with not-knowing.| uncertaintymindset.substack.com
How — and why — I'm trying to understand not-knowing ... but explained through the lens of two approaches to working in wood. YMMV.| uncertaintymindset.substack.com
This issue introduces not-knowing as a concept and argues for why we should care about it especially at this time in history. It's the opener for a book project and a monthly discussion series on InterIntellect about not-knowing that starts next Thursday (19 Jan 2023, 8pm CET).| uncertaintymindset.substack.com
What follows is an introduction to not-knowing (first published in my Substack newsletter), which covers The origin story for the discussion series| vaughntan.org
tl;dr: Happiness results from being curious about the world around you, being free to take action, being effective in the actions that you take, and| vaughntan.org
tl;dr: We’re culturally and socially conditioned to avoid not-knowing or pretend it doesn’t exist. This conditioning is a form of learned| vaughntan.org
tl;dr: We need to be vigilant about mindset mismatch because serious mindset mismatch causes bad decisionmaking which often leads to terrible| vaughntan.org
tl;dr: Mindset mismatch is when the mindset you use to interpret and act in the world inaccurately reflects reality. All mindsets are inaccurate in| vaughntan.org
This article is part of a project on not-knowing. Here is a problem: Organizations (businesses, non-profits, governments, NGOs) know that| vaughntan.org
tl;dr: This article argues that thinking clearly about risk is essential to making good decisions and achieving good outcomes in situations of| vaughntan.org