Reflections 15th June

On Sandpile Organisations.

A new ignorance is on the horizon, an ignorance borne not of a lack of knowledge but of too much knowledge, too much data, too many theories, too little time.

Eugene Thacker

As uncertainty increases from the statistical to the radical, our thinking must evolve accordingly. We move from

Annie Duke

"Thinking in Bets" - a world of definable outcomes and calculable probabilities - to one of "Radical Uncertainty," where we can neither imagine all possible outcomes nor assign meaningful probabilities to future events. We shift from thinking in bets to thinking in experiments, searching for possibilities rather than probabilities.

When I transitioned from running businesses to working with those who run them two decades ago, it was this world of uncertainty that attracted me. I find asking questions, treading unknown paths, and entertaining half-formed thoughts in search of companions compelling and energising, full of untapped possibility.

Our relationship with uncertainty is fundamentally paradoxical. …