facilitation, complexity, sustainability science to help teams navigate tough problems || colleague and senior consultant, somewhere
Malmo, Sweden
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Scientists understand the world.
Journalists *believe* they do, but they don't (most of them, most of the world).
A useful list of recommended books. I stand by all of them today. But now I would add some newer stuff as well.
THREAD List of books that have helped me make sense of Complex Adaptive Systems and work in them more skillfully. For each a mini description #complexity #cynefin #CAS #systems
The closest thing I have akin to a professional newsletter is here on this platform that I still regularly engage with. FYI. I talk about teams navigating complexity, and practical frames to help them linkedin.com/newsletters/tea…
I have been waiting for this book for 9 years - not kidding! The Co-Creation: How Earth Made Life and Life Made Earth penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
"We are so much embedded in our relations with others that those very relations are difficult to discern clearly. We are so in the thick of relationality that it is almost impossible to fully appreciate its contours and inner workings, a little like the eye trying to see itself"
Produttivita' del lavoro ferma
Salari reali fermi
Fuga di cervelli
Crescita PIL vicina allo zero
Rapporto deficit pil alto
Demografia del lavoro
Pensioni
... nel programma elettorale di un tizio ci sta "multare le parolacce". Non fa una piega. Prima le prime cose
Why is no one in Europe considering some bans or serious restrictions on tourist visas for Russians?
They kill our friends and come to have holidays in Europe the next week. Do we need their money so bad?
They clearly represent a security risk, too
We rarely make it alone. A solid opinion piece on markers of success, from a scholar who has studied grit
nytimes.com/2026/08/28/opini…
Most helpful blog post by Chris Corrigan, connecting complexity theories with the facilitation practice Art of Hosting chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot…
unreasonably excited as I have ordered a copy of "The Vienna Circle: the story of logical empiricism"
Why aren't you all equally enthusiastic about one of the greatest scientific adventures of the last century?
Follow me for more against-the-fad reads
Update on evidence. Forecasts for Carbon Capture and Storage have failed dramatically over the years. Solar power has grown more than the most optimistic forecasts. Great article projects.propublica.org/why-…
Great essay by Luis Vassy on Europe, its role in the world right now, war and peace (in French) legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/…
Ottimo editoriale di Cesar Hidalgo su Il Foglio Europeo. Perché non si riesce a costruire una Silicon Valley europea
foglioeuropeo.ilfoglio.it/pe…
Buon 25 Aprile a tutti.
Oggi ricordo tra le altre cose il paradosso di Popper. Bisogna rispettare la liberta', contro ogni autoritarismo, perche' se si lascia troppo spazio e potere agli autoritarismi va a finire che ti distruggono la liberta' da cui hanno potuto farsi sentire
I know that hindsight is always 20/20, but imagine a world that had phased out fossil fuels since the 1990's and that today does not have strategic bottlenecks in Iran or Russia.
We have been saying this for ages -renewables enable independence
I wanted to learn more about an amazing author on decision making (a woman), and was looking for podcast interviews with her, but all I found is opinionated male podcast hosts who did not let her speak much, and kept interrupting all the time by wanting to sound smart. Annoying
It's a laboratory experiment, but still it shows an interesting pattern: reward people for collective intelligence, not for individual achievements, to make the group smarter. Two strategies that seem to work.
pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pna…
