Fast, Loose & Disciplined with joy and a little bit of craic Presented at UCC CUBS MiniConf 4th April 2022

1. Fast, Loose & Disciplined
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with joy and a little bit of craic

4. MEET THE
DAVIES-MAC CRÍOSTA
MATRIX

5. CRAIC
DRAMA
CLEAR
NO CRAIC
Meet the Davies-Mac Críosta Matrix

6. POKE THE BEAR

7. Plans are for people who
don’t know what they’re
doing
Governance is to stop
the *ignorant from
doing silly and/or
dangerous things
Slavish context-free
adherence to Frameworks and
Methodologies is a surefire
recipe for catastrophe
*people who don’t know what they’re doing

8. Luck v Skill & Situation

9. MEMETIC PROFITEERING

10. Cargo Cultish

11. APING – MEMES & MIMICRY

12. Beware The Mimetic Smugglers

13. Beware The Certainty Merchants

14. MAYBE IT’S
THE WRONG SORT
OF KNOWING

15. News
Common Sense
Experience

16. Dunning Kruger Dilemmas & the
4Ps of Knowing
Propositional
knowing
Procedural
knowing
Participatory
knowing

17. JUST TRY HARDER

18. Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
Mathematician, Philosopher, Man of Letters
The Principle of Least
Action
The principle of least
action/energy describes how
physical processes organise to
minimise their consumption of
energy.

19. energy gradients & cognitive
heuristics

20. OTHER DANGERS

21. Proxying Sensemaking

22. Simulated Thinking is a
Problem

23. Memetic Infection

24. Trust in numbers

25. HOW DO WE IMPROVE THE QUALITY
OF OUR SENSEMAKING,
CHOICE-MAKING
& MEANING-MAKING

26. But the problem is with our
thinking
Cynefin 3 Domain Model

27. I can
think more
than I can
say, I can
say more
than I can
write

28. News
Common Sense
Experience

29. Exploring Knowledge Encoding
Systems

30. AVOIDING DRAMA
& SEEKING CLARITY

31. Avoid Drama
CRAIC
DRAMA
CLEAR
NO CRAIC

32. Develop a
Drama
Detection &
Avoidance
System

33. Get Clear… Very Clear

34. for this we need…
collective intelligence

35. So who do we need??

37. MEET HOMO LUDENS

38. CRAIC
DRAMA
CLEAR
NO CRAIC
It would be great if they were here…

39. But they’re not
CRAIC
DRAMA
CLEAR
NO CRAIC

40. Meet Homo Ludens

41. Humour & Playfulness

42. Working at scale

43. Sync or sink

44. SOME FINAL THOUGHTS

45. STRAIN & RECOVERY
another metaphor

46. Strain & Recovery

47. FEAR

48. The Litany Against Fear

49. if you want to find me,
try….
gar@businessmodeladventures.com
http://ie.linkedin.com/in/garmac
criosta
Hello, my
name is Gar
and I help
with
“The anxiety
or stress of
trying to
hold on to
things that
are
constantly
changing”
Gar Mac Críosta
VIPARINAMA DUKKHA