Life Discovery: The “Tacit” Type of Second-order Activity

The Hiddenness of Second-order Activity

The above diagram shows a typology of Second-order Activity. One is “Tacit” and the other one is “Explicit”. The Explicit Second-order Activity is defined by the Object while the Tacit Second-order Activity can be indicated by the Outcome.

This insight is a mini-milestone of the “Anticipatory Activity System” project.

This morning I sent several messages about the insight to a friend of mine. Then, I moved to Linkedin and wrote a short post on Linkedin. This article aims to expand the original post.

The “Anticipatory Activity System” Project

The Anticipatory Activity System framework is a hybrid theoretical framework that curates the following two theories together:

• Activity Theory
• Anticipatory System Theory

This hybrid approach is inspired by Clay Spinuzzi’s book Network: Theorizing Knowledge Work in Telecommunications. To understand a telecommunications company’s knowledge work, Clay Spinuzzi focuses on the concept of “Network”, and adopts the following two theories to build an abstract framework for theorizing “Network” of knowledge work:

• Activity Theory