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I would say electric bikes are going to redefine the city more than electric cars. Design your cities for electric bikes..
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It’s clear we are heading to 3.5 degrees not 1.5 degrees - whole cities and settlements will be displaced, whole cities will need to deep retrofitted and we are just not ready.
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Our current model of “growth” is not actually growth, the unpriced externalities we are generating are self terminating us. In reality we are living in degrowth, a great stagnation & a world of zero sum games; driving innovation into politics & policy (division of the existing).
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Thank you to
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for this interview; and to everyone’s kind words over the last few days! We all stand on each others shoulders - onwards
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The capacity to think & act for the long term is a modern privilege for the few. In an age of persistent precariousness, we the many was stuck in short termism and mal-consumption to feed and sustain our fragilities.
#FutureInequalities
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Creativity is not a sector but a societal capability to synthesise across disciplines, a polymathic function, to break the boundaries of existing disciplines. It is a non Lagging indicator of a health of society to transform itself.
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For clarity - billionaires don’t make or grow your economy - they indicate a failure of governance, permissive rent seeking & structural monopolies; real economic growth is better related to breadth & depth of wage & wealth distribution
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“Ideas are cheap” is only said by people that have no ideas & borrow other people’s - good ideas are expensive & take massive investment
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“Don’t recruit for what people know / Recruit for what people want to self learn, how deep and fast they learn & how deep and fast the team around them learns..” this changes so many things ..
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Increasingly the issue is not a mere lack of imagination but more fundamentally a lack of comprehension of the scale of the transition we are facing, and thereby a sufficient imaginary to face the reality coming at us.
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Our theories of societal change & innovation are really not commensurate with the scale of challenge we are facing as a society. Systemically locked into fixing peripheral market failures leaving us only disorderly revolutions as the viable pathway for change. Can we do better?
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Boring Revolutions..
Increasingly wonder if these formats (see image) for the deliberations of complex issues are just performative/a theatre of interaction with limited functionality for the interrogation of the matter in hand - we need new structurally formats - with new
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Really brilliant - clearly explains the illusion of India - as a construct of the British Raj.. rather than some authenticity foundational identity..
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The singular focus on carbon will systemically offset the economy into the production of an adjacent set of toxins which will accelerate the pollution of our air, land and water. Carbon is a symptom of failure. The transition has to bigger than carbon.
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System change can’t delivered by imposing portfolios of interventions (a bucked full of magic bullets) but instead requires the building of system capabilities..
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There is a fu*king great world to be built - bypass the hate and stand up - dream it, make it & go with grace whilst apologising sincerely for the hurt you give along the way (we all make mistakes)
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Its been a crazy few years
@DarkMatter_Labs
we are finally gathering again as a network of pop up studios from Bath, Venice, Malmo, Neverland to Seoul.
We gathered in Berlin’18, Scotland April’19 & Amsterdam Dec’19, now as a 55 + team. Such a journey to get here - thank you!
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Building an organisation focused on kindness and care (vital for complex, cognitively and emotionally demanding work) is structurally problematised by our current rules and institutional logics
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The three fallacies / delusions of modern management: meritocracy as a basis of career development; markets as an organising principle; money as an incentive/reward system in discovery future. Let’s have yours..
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“The revolution does not involve us all owning land more equitably but recognising that land is beyond ownership and we need a new treaty with land and our natural ecosystems.”
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The only way to build inclusive Nations is to build national identities on visions/dreams of the future, inviting us to belong to this future together; as opposed to rooted in a mythic past & it’s quasi-authenticity. This is a future not driven by assimilation but making together
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There is no immigrant crisis; there is a structural inequality/economic rent crisis - which people do not want us to talk about & a crisis of our common assets (climate change etc)- which people don’t want to do anything about as they seek to leverage disaster capitalism...
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To build the next world - you are also going to have build a new generation of organisations, structured in radically new ways.
A vision for a new world delivered by late 20th century theories management and organising won’t do and structurally won’t deliver.
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Participatory society needs investment in creating the equitable conditions of participation; conditions for being present, emotional available, free, empowered by intrinsic agency & part of a culture of care, playfulness, experimentation (these are the lines of exclusivity)
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Whenever anyone speaks of global population of humans as a problem - please check this out and PAUSE.
An impressive new study led by
@jaredmstarr
shows the massive and rage-inducing scale of carbon inequality.
They find that super-rich US households emit +2000x more CO2e than average low-income country households. I had to see what that looks like👇 1/
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We don’t face a skills shortage but instead a throttled capacity (at a societal scale) for self authoring lives, the continuous desires, capacities and capabilities for learning and self directed learning
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Government is not the sole architect of public good. It is at the hybridity of state, markets (free & fair ones), learned societies & civic activism where the public good is discovered with all their different & complimentary models of making societal decisions.
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Am afraid there is no business as usual - this is a strategic error by all retro-centralists politicians
UPDATE: My message to all the climate change protestors today is clear: let London return to business as usual.
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System Venturing: a new class of enterprise, which operates to optimise a movements of organisations working together for strategic outcomes
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Decarbonising our society & adapting to this future will require fundamental transition in our economic geography, urbanism, architecture & our way of life - in a integrated manner
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Four charts which describe the structural nature of the transition challenge we face as a planetary civilization.
They will demand systemic transformation in how we live, what we value, what we consume and what we produce and how we produce..
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“Innovation needs a Boring Revolution….” 11 Principles for Anticipating the Future of Regulatory, Institutional & Goverance Innovation.
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Is it me or is just the quality of work & care of work just falling away.. everywhere; and I am not sure it’s the fault of individuals - something deeper is going on..
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“Design is the intentional crafting of the future, management is the intentional organisation of the present & archeology is the intentional sorting of the past.. “
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Sometimes I wonder why we waste so much energy trying to belong to where we are from, as opposed to defining ourselves by where we are going
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Going to say it, its so hard to both push ahead & be systemically inclusive & multi perspectival. I keep falling down here, need to be much better! But also the inequalities, privileges & injustices of our societies are systemically locking us out from transitioning from demise.
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Imagine if we lived in a country where rent seeking monopolies were effectively regulated & taxed; corporations which were polluting our commons with CO2, plastics, particulates etc were True Cost Taxed; so we could pay less tax, have a lower cost of living & ++ quality of life
Just imagine if we lived in a country where taxes were lower and simpler, and government didn't waste a single penny of your hard-earned cash 😍
#FridayThoughts
#FridayFeeling
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“Wealth is accumulated “undead” historic human endeavour and debt is future human endeavour ‘captured.. “ both create asymmetric power in the now - leveraging both the captured past & the future
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What would happen if the
@bankofengland
was setting differential interest rates for primary mortgages, biodiversity, solar energy investments say near 0% and much higher for credit cards, consumables, cars etc near 10% ?
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The real challenge is charting a new growth which is materially circular & socially equitable and shifting activism from policy to the technologies of human development.
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Increasingly feel the mantra of maintaining “hope” has facilitated a delusional solution scape of marginal intervention not appropriate (no where near) to the scale of transition challenge we face. Thereby driving us as best to non explicit palliative care strategies hospicing
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Don’t declare a climate emergency without a plan to transition our societies in under 10 years max..... this is not an aspiration target - its a life or death matter.
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Are public innovation institutions structured, designed and organized for the scale of the transition we face? If you were designing one - what would be its core feature?
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It’s deeply disappointing to see no major political party in the UK go after the fundamental democratic reform necessary- our model of democracy and our means of governance are not fit for purpose, to address the nature of our complexity & structural (deep code) challenges
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Reminder to self: Momentum is everything in addressing complex work/goals, rhythm does not necessarily drive momentum, hence build processes oriented for momentum not rhythm.
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What would happen if we banned advertising in societies - as they distort markets and drive un-required consumption … ?
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Architecture & urbanism discourse seems locked into a rhetoric of localism (ignoring our dependence on global material supply chains) and/or high density cappuccino urbanism (disconnected from our ecological interdependence)
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It’s really important that boards start recruiting leadership to reflect the needs of an age of long emergencies - not risk managerialism.
Seeing too many institutions being diminished & destroyed through mediocre recruitment by boards in search of “safe bets”- there are none!
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Let’s imagine an alternative to an ownership & property rights economy to one based on additive contribution & time limited use rights - enabling a systemic transformation towards a stewardship economy..
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Who defines impact, who measures impact, who decides the pathways to impact, who defines impact for whom. These are some of structural legitimacy & reason challenges a 21st century transition faces.
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“Boards as governance & integrity systems are fundamentally ineffective in a complex world view, they reinforce the separation of risk & thereby a desire for control. We need to remake our means for integrity & accountability through open reflective learning developmental praxis”
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Increasingly think organisations need periodic re-founding as they evolve through their phase shifts; it has to be an intentional act of rebuilding solidarity, mission and mutual accountability - alway learning with
@CIVIC_SQUARE
A few months ago
@indy_johar
said we needed to refound the org. Well, we took that quite serious and flipped everything upside down for a bit to interrogate and rebuild.
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Please Remember - “The Will of the People” = “The will of the very marginal majority procured through some potentially illegal activity & influenced most likely by a rogue state”
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Purpose of architectural education is not to feed existing practices but to disrupt, dislodge & evolve existing practices & drive innovation
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It so worrying that really brilliant people are still thinking of solving problems as if we are living in the 20th century.. (the housing challenge cannot be solved by infinite supply as we don’t have have the national carbon budgets for this illusion)
Except we don’t have the carbon budget to fix the market with supply..
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Build a mission orientated org focused on compounding learning, growing collective intelligence & polymathic capabilities for distributed action and agency - operating as micro planetary organism with unfurling accountability; that’s the goal - not achieved it but learning
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Evidence based policy is a 2006 illusion - policy is increasingly driven by politicians ability to harness our collective cognitive biases & prejudices - for evidence to have a meaningful intervention in policy - it must be used to build movements of civic awareness
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The just economy challenge is no longer about fixing edge failures or adjusting for fairness in the present economy - but recognizing our existing economy is self terminating us and future generations humans and non humans.
It’s requires us to embrace structural reform of how
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”21st C developed economies have been designed to make people more precarious; more susceptible to the power of financial incentives; less independent of thought, being & becoming; more prone to fear & the command & control of capital. We have been liberated from freedom.”
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“The challenge of rent seeking economies is that the rent seekers & money itself becomes addicted to no risk - capital appreciation & forgets how to invest & take risks to create value; not only does it drive a vampire economics it destroys the innovation capacity of nations”
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Super excited that the
@RIBA
has accepted the full findings and recommendations of the RIBA Ethics & Sustainable Development Commission
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There is no viable method for biodiversity renewal, without decarbonisation of our economy, without building fair markets, economies & societies, without degrowth of our material economy and investment in human development - these are intersectional planetary challenges..
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Let me get this straight - a political party which is behind the whole mess of Brexit, Austerity, residing over a prolonged failure of the housing market, rise in racial attacks, knife crimes etc.. - would like another term in office on the basis the other side may be worse?!!
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Our public good institutions are at risk of failing us - turning to the “practical” as guise to not having the courage to deal with the structural.
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Thanks to
@nesta_uk
for helping
@LucidmindsAI
&
@DarkMatter_Labs
develop . Civic Society is a vital location for building new models of machine-human collective intelligences & agencies fundamental for the future of democracies (inc. human & non human)
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We at
@DarkMatter_Labs
are looking for some great service designers, front end/UX designers, and system change facilitators to join the team - get in touch - DM me! Super interesting work!
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The future city will be reframed on the bio-Integral cohabitation with nature; aggregated not by consumption or production but instead culture, a culture of cocreation- leisure to innovation & imagination - a world of infinite intangibles
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In the futures cone - please remember the path dependent “Probable Future” is now civilisation scale - self termination.
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“There can be no sustainable future without social justice and there can be no social justice and equity without a belief in the infinite possibilities of our share futures - the future is not a zero sum game”
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From control to ennoblement … remaking governance.
The speed camera lottery in Stockholm, Sweden. Drive at or under the speed limit and you'll be entered into a lottery where the prize fund comes from the fines that speeders pay. Average speed reduced from 32 km/h to 25 km/h (a reduction of 22%).
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Increasingly think: Transition Strategies & investment plans are needing to be focused on addressing Net Zero & 3 Degrees adaption; whilst structurally recognizing climate change is a symptom of a deep failure of governance and our relationship with the world.
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We are being programmed, designing & nudging our bias, echoing our need for confirmation, in designed conditions of precariousness. Freedom now requires work. Work to become conscious of our bias & working harder to transcend our biases & see a world beyond what we expect.
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“In the 1970’s a whole bunch of activists turned away from changing the world to changing themselves & interm they relinquished the world to the forces we see around us. We will need to do both. This will require Love & War; & wont be a 4 day week, but a new way to live.”
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System change is not just a cultural or leadership challenge, it's a structural challenge of how we finance, incentivise, organise & govern
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Increasingly over the last 50 years the preservation of capital has become superordinate to the preservation of life and this is deep coded into our allocation of resources.
Unfortunately this has become the systemic norm with insidious consequences everywhere; however in the
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The revolution won’t be born in Westminster. As Westminster radically underestimates the capacity of citizens to sense the real scale of the challenge - requiring structural reform of our energy, food, material, care and human development economies AND reform of our thesis of a
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Great few days with
@BhamCityCouncil
, beginning the journey towards a "whole city" view of public innovation powered by an enabling council
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Increasingly think Silicon Valley is stagnating & has become timid and captured by UX and human centric design to point of being scared of new features and possibilities.. the hyper slow evolution of
@Twitter
and its need to copy
@instagram
are clear examples.
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In a complex emergent world - a default bias towards consensus based decisions is a terrible idea as a default for democratic organising - (requires near total equitable information of multiple contexts & domains)
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Controversial share “There is no pathway back to localism, (yes we need to build civic communities and everyday life). Localism is like nationalism - a retreat to find a solution that needs to be planetary. We can only do this together.”
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Friends looking for some one brilliant to join the
@DarkMatter_Labs
team: R&D focused - working on 2nd & 3rd horizon solutions: Domain - Public Finance innovation necessary for transition. Direct message me please :)
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If humans are an emergent property of nature - indivisible & interdependent with nature (from microbiomes to flora): surely the our models of going to space are all wrong? Our models of cities (created on the division of our selves from nature) are all wrong fundamentally?
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#Cop26
from my perspective took a financial capital and formal asset centric view on transition - this future does not support a transition for all of us or all of our entangled realities.
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Mental Health is a foundational infrastructure for 21st Century societies - we need classify it as a infrastructure and finance it as such - Building Mental Wealth by
@DarkMatter_Labs
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System change NOT just collective management in a a better suit, it’s requires us to acknowledge the mass agency & sovereignty of the agents of a systems with shared fates and missions, system change needs system learning & dev capabilities - not output or outcome controls
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We have designed corps, states & institutions, to be economically self interested, short-termist, internally/externally exploitative, mechanisms of control. This “truth” was replicated upon a false thesis of Homo Economicus as a natural truth. This fractal failure is killing us.
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Has anyone built a consumers union - for coordinated action against rent seeking monopolies? Sayyyyy energy companies?
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Saddest thing I heard today - “I actually don’t believe hardly anyone, I am losing trust in society as we have it; left & right both manipulative and amplified by “activists” who I feel have lost interest in the truth, just winning - the real casualty of all this is society”
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Spatial planning feels like an outdated practice left over from a managerial world and unfit for the complexity and care needs of the 21st century. How do we reinvent practice to co-ordinate and cohere our co-habitation (current and future generations - humans and non humans)?
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The solutioneering we see around us is sticky plaster stuff - focused on addressing the symptoms as they emerge from the cascading shocks. The deep code generators of the crisis we are beginning to witness are left untouched.
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Copenhagen - The City Bench project -accommodating likely sea level rise in 78 years (ignoring the devastation that will driven by storm surges much earlier) HT
@awlilnatty
for the pictures - thank you!
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There can be no environmental justice without the bedrock of social justice, and neither can be confined to the boundaries of the nation state.
Just so we know the actual problem domain.
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Platforms are a tool for authoritarian emergence; Assemblages are dynamic tools for multitudes:
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It’s so interesting in moments like this - people want (understandably) predictable, commodified work with described actions & activity - but the work is increasingly about holding the uncertainties and scribing and sculpting actions out of that uncertainty
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