The Art of Early Discovery (a short note)

Weaving the Mind and Clarifying the Order

This morning I revisited CALL’s Annual Review (2020–2021) and my recent 2023 annual review.

I’d like to share three related diagrams.

#1 — Oct 31, 2021

On Oct 31, 2021, I wrote CALL: Annual Review (2020–2021) with the above diagram.

CALL stands for Creative Action Learning Lab. I started it as a digital garage on Medium in Oct 2019.

From Oct 2020 to Oct 2021, CALL became a Knowledge Curation Studio which produces a set of knowledge frameworks and builds an ecology of ideas. I also wrote seven books which are drafts. In addition, I worked on four independent research projects to test concepts and frameworks.

How did I curate these creations into a meaningful whole?

In order to visualize this complicated network of ideas, I use Big Dipper as a metaphor to design the above diagram.

Inspired by Howard E. Gruber’s Evolving Systems Approach to the study of Creative Work (1974,1989), I use his idea “Network of Enterprise” to manage my creative work.

According to Gruber, “We use the term enterprise to stand for a group of related projects and activities broadly enough defined so that (1) the…