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Clusters rule everything around me - Works in Progress
Framing is decisive. At every moment, we live and operate and relate to the world from inside our framing of it, our mental model of it. Relating to the world as made up of ecosystems will result in very different outcomes than relating to the world as made up of individuals, of discrete things that can be treated distinctly.
Medium • The Ecosystem Hypothesis
There are two principles that I’d like to highlight here: Bounded Applicability (most things have value if we understand the boundaries within which they are valid) and Coherent Heterogeneity (embracing as much diversity as we can without fragmenting or becoming incoherent).
Boudewijn Bertsch • Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making Into the Fabric of Our World ED02
Consider the clusters of a landscape and ask questions:
- Coherent homogeneity - Are we different but in a coherent way?
- Incoherent homogeneity - Are we all the same, dangerously so?
- Coherent heterogeneity - How much heterogeneity is needed to be resilient in the current context? To be coherent, are the different clusters overlapping? Understand at a
Vector theory of change
“... the movement of people, the convergence of science, and the leap of computation are giving rise to more intersections than ever [and] the individuals or teams who find these intersections are likely to be the ones who radically change our world.” Exactly the domain of generalists. -- Frans Johansson, The Medici Effect
Steve Hardy • What Specifically Do Generalists Do?
It could be that the smartest people, with the highest potential, automagically gather in the same place through a process of mystical osmosis. Let's call that Hypothesis A... Or possibly it could be that the formation of the cluster is what transforms people into geniuses. Being a part of a group makes B players look like A players, and A players... See more