Cynefin, Culture Change as Complex

Originally published February 27, 2016

The Cynefin framework (created by Dave Snowden) reveals that Complicated or Simple approaches break down and can only succeed by complete accident in the Complex domain, because causality is only clear in…

Buffer Management for Meal Prepping

This post describes an attempt to apply theory practically (praxis) to solve a silly little problem.

My wife and I are getting serious about cutting our restaurant spending, so we have been cooking large batches of food to store and eat…

Motivation Cycles

Originally published February 24, 2016

You could find the Abstract listening to hip hop
My pops used to say, it reminded him of Bebop
I said, well daddy don’t you know that things go in…

Cutting Costs. Or, How to Pretend Complex is Simple.

Originally published March 20, 2016

Suppose a company discovers that its projected revenue is below original expectations for reasons outside of its direct control. The bottom-line numbers are going to look bad…

Visual WIP

Originally published February 21, 2016

I have been searching for a temporary work visualization method to adequately convey both how a given process works and the WIP (Work In Progress) within it at any given moment. With eventual improvement set as a goal for the former, a…

On Diversity

Just a few years ago, I would not have been able to articulate why organizational diversity matters. (I know that for a fact, because I once offered a barely adequate, fumbling answer during an interview. Despite somehow getting the job, I remained largely clueless for some time.)