Cognitive Edge

October 12th is, if you believe it, World Migratory Bird Day. If you’ve been reading Dave’s blogs for a while, you’ll know birds are an occasional source of inspiration. It’s got us all t...

https://thecynefin.co/world-migratory-bird-day/

Since my last post, life has been a little frantic, moving with little rest between three continents and a schedule that left me no time to keep up with email, let alone write blog posts or get s...

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I inherited The Little World of Don Camillo from my mother and still have it in the 3 shillings and sixpence version.  That’s  17½p in modern currency, adjusting for inflation, around £5-Â...

https://thecynefin.co/narrative-numbers-narcissism/

In my first post in this series, I talked about social and semiotic patterns, introducing culture as an assemblage, or more properly, an agencement, a more dynamic word.  I went on to talk about...

https://thecynefin.co/the-patterns-of-narrative/

The Cynefin Framework and Estuarine Mapping (Estuarine Framework); Frequently mentioned, but what are they and how are they related? Most people who will come across this blog will probably be fa...

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We now have the events confirmed for Dave and the Cynefin Co’s upcoming South Africa tour this August, with Meetups scheduled for Pretoria, Cape Town and Stellenbosch. This is the final call fo...

https://thecynefin.co/cynefin-co-south-africa-trip-august-2024/

Actant, a significant term in our work, is not just about humans but takes a broader concept of agency.  Its origin lies in Greimas’s structural semantics and narrative theory, and it builds o...

https://thecynefin.co/patterns-as-and-via-actants/

Peder Söderlind pinged me on a LinkedIn post, which picked up a fair following, in part because of its very intriguing opening sentence: Doing my best to be a bit braver and trust my own thinkin...

https://thecynefin.co/patterning-curiosity/

Some years ago, I picked up Jeremy Lent’s book The Patterning Instinct: A cultural history of humanity’s search for meaning largely based on the title and the fact that it had an introduction...

https://thecynefin.co/patterns-and-patterning/

This blog post was created through the joined efforts of Beth Smith and Anna Panagiotou. If you are following our work and social media, you have probably heard about Estuarine Mapping. Estuarin...

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