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Category: Learning in complexity

Amazing Alicia Juarrero: Video Playlist

Philosophy, complexity, constraints, emergence

In this video, she talks about Context-sensitive constraints and Context-free constraints.

https://vimeo.com/128934608

April 15, 2021
My thoughts on Entrepreneurial Expertise: Twitter Thread

1/n The topic of expertise is really close to my heart(my research interest), and I think it should be one of the central questions of the field for ensuring its sustainability and relevancy. Let me try to bring in the theoretical foundations of Expertise to the table first.
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) October 12, 2020

3/n In this article "Conditions for intuitive expertise: A failure to disagree." Kahneman and @KleInsight explore the two branches and come to certain core commons of conclusions⬇️ https://t.co/jzjHhC87ly
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) October 12, 2020

5/n 4# In alignment with the above, Anders Ericsson(who recently passed away) prescribes ideas about Deliberate Practice for Entrepreneurs.⬇️..This I think perfectly try to answer @entrep_thinking's original Question https://t.co/vYLYQYkKtO
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) October 12, 2020

7/n The problem is that the very nature of Ent is complex & emergent. It operates in the evolutionary edge of social emergence. No core actions are repeated again, or rarely, as against the fundamental conditions⬆️(FRR = Feedback(Immediate), Repeatability & Regular environment).
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) October 12, 2020

9/n I think Sara's study under-discussed concerns of FRR (⬆️)in conceptualizing the idea of "Expert Entrepreneur" As in "While expert entrepreneurs are highly effectual, novice entrepreneurs tend to use more causal modes of reasoning"
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) October 12, 2020

11/n, In order to see the visualize the known and unknown of Entrepreneurship clearly "Cynefin Framework" by @snowded, (From complexity science) might help.
https://t.co/HfpKu4MYLw
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) October 12, 2020

The Feedback Loop Tangent

Just an observation – but I get feedback from alumni over many years Johny, but it doesn't stop me learning??? It does make me more aware of just how limited my 'expertise' actually is!!!
— Andy Penaluna (@AndyPena) October 12, 2020

I guess we need both domain expertise & self-improvement capacities (feedback literacy)
— David Carless (@CarlessDavid) October 13, 2020

But you also use that feedback to change / improve things Andy, many just ignore it or don’t think they have the agency to use it
— Vic Curtis (@viccurtis) October 13, 2020

This ⬆️ puts feedback based on "right and wrong" out of the picture, atleast temporarily I guess..I saw you talking about internal feedback..
Maybe in complex domains like Ent feedback can be grounded on our internal standards as against externals.
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) October 13, 2020

Your abstract here puts the issue ..I didn't read it, but going to… https://t.co/ovIG4XRcJs
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) October 13, 2020

https://twitter.com/bartderre/status/1315911064677163010?s=20

That's what we see happen empirically in Sweden and elsewhere. So a reasonable hypothesis. Let's see if the same happens in Ghent!
— Martin Lackéus (@mlackeus) October 13, 2020

This puts "Contextualizing Entrepreneurship" view by @f_welter extremely important. We cant use the same set of thinking for every single context. https://t.co/bbKgcoFell
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) October 13, 2020

https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1316000776875991042?s=20

October 15, 2020
Great introduction of Systems Approach to education by Beth Rajan Sockman

YouTube link here ⬇️https://t.co/O1yt3TjqtJ
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) September 20, 2020

September 22, 2020
Evolutionary fitness landscapes
A fitness landscape model is a metaphor used to think about the processes of evolution acting on a biological entity.
This entity can be viewed as moving through a search space with two kinds of decisions:
- Explore maximum number of landscapes or maximum number of variations.
- Exploit the most out of a particular landscape.
This principle is applicable to entrepreneurial search for a repeatable, scalable and sustainable business models(Explore). Once a working model is created then the entrepreneurs job is to make it work. (Exploit)

This twitter thread contains links for further exploration.

https://twitter.com/johnywrites/status/1294719389866971136?s=20

3# This article by @GerritsLasse and Peter Marks explores the contemporary interpretations and uses of fitness landscapes in the social sciences
Link ⬇️https://t.co/NC8n4D41A7
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) August 15, 2020

https://twitter.com/GerritsLasse/status/1295319317286989824?s=20

Nicky Case @ncasenmare gave one of the best Long Now talks ever (follow the link). This excerpt is from our Q&A. https://t.co/MtGpafuXeQ
— Stewart Brand (@stewartbrand) August 15, 2020
August 20, 2020
Entrepreneurship and fitness landscape.
A fitness landscape model is a metaphor used to think about the processes of evolution acting on a biological entity.

This entity can be viewed as moving through a search space with two kinds of decisions:
- Explore maximum number of landscapes or maximum number of variations.
- Exploit the most out of a particular landscape.
This principle is applicable to entrepreneurial search for a repeatable, scalable and sustainable business models(Explore). Once a working model is created then the entrepreneurs job is to make it work. (Exploit)

The following video give a fair idea about the metaphor of fitness landscapes.

Rereading blog pmarca by @pmarca. “entrepreneurial judgment is the ability to tell the difference between a situation that's not working but persistence and iteration will ultimately prove it out…
— Michael Seibel (@mwseibel) January 15, 2020

… versus a situation that's not working and additional effort is a destructive waste of time and radical change is necessary.” This is the central challenge for almost every early stage YC founder.
— Michael Seibel (@mwseibel) January 15, 2020

This is a critical issue for entrepreneurs. In the language of bounded rationality, when to satisfice with some local search and when to reignite distant search, which can set the learning curve back to zero. https://t.co/OFnyO1s4eP
— Susan Cohen (@susleec) January 15, 2020

Interesting – for me it fits the @sstern_mit & @joshgans model of profound uncertainty in entrepreneurship: there’s no way to know but choosing one & marching forward.
— charlie williams (@pontific8) January 16, 2020

The challenge is knowing when to keep marching in the same direction (perhaps over mountains) and when to change directions … one of the hardest decisions for entrepreneurs.
— Susan Cohen (@susleec) January 16, 2020

This is a very good explanation video using biological model of fitness landscape.https://t.co/wtLywjSh31
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) March 9, 2020
January 15, 2020
Systemic change in Education: Video Playlist

Created by Association for Educational Communications and Technologies (AECT) Division of Systemic Change

December 2, 2019
Tweet: The Role of Luck by Scott Barry Kaufman
The Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than We Realized – Scientific American – Pocket https://t.co/TIJlBunMLR
— Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman ⛵ (@sbkaufman) November 29, 2019

In this article Scott Barry Kaufman give the following example studies to display the role of luck factors in success.
- Half of the differences in income can be explained by peoples country of residence and by the income distribution within that country,
- Scientific impact is randomly distributed, with high productivity alone having a limited effect on the likelihood of high-impact work in a scientific career,
- Our chance of becoming a CEO may be influenced by our name or month of birth,
- CEOs born in June and July is much smaller than the number of CEOs born in other months,
- People with last names earlier in the alphabet are more likely to receive tenure at top departments,
- Display of middle initials increases positive evaluations of people’s intellectual capacities and achievements,
- Individuals with easy to pronounce names are judged more positively than those with difficult-to-pronounce names,
- Females with masculine sounding names are more successful in legal careers.
November 30, 2019
Tweet: Model Thinking

George Box said. “All models are wrong.” But, if they are wrong in different ways, then collectively, they can be less wrong. To quote Richard Levin’s, “the truth lies at the intersection of our independent lies.” And, it is in diversity that the seeds of independence reside. https://t.co/1kCWmPOuVb
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) November 30, 2018

December 26, 2018
Tweet : Cumulative Culture and Human species learning

“Cumulative culture makes us smarter in another way as well: It allows us to transcend the limitations imposed on us by the anatomy of our brains, furnishing us with knowledge.”

A growing contingent of scholars argue that our “superpower” as a species is not so much our intelligence as our collective intelligence and our capacity for what’s called cumulative culture https://t.co/sPZw2ytcEz
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) December 16, 2018
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December 16, 2018
Tweet: Cynefin decision making framework

Cynefin decision making framework by @snowded is Super cool.
The great thing is its simplicity and use of a Contrast Frame distinguishing different #Decision contexts-Simple, Complicated, #Complex, Chaotic, Disorder.

We see things clearly when its in a single visible frame. pic.twitter.com/ilPjwhizMu
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) November 27, 2018

November 27, 2018