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A BOOK I’M WRITING IN THE OPEN

Uncertain
by Design

A living inquiry into what happens when common knowledge breaks down, leadership loses its bearings, and inherited organisations no longer fit the complexity they face.

The whole book is mapped below. Each essay opens as it is published.

Every essay goes out on Substack LinkedIn

THE LIVING INDEX

The complete architecture

Linked essays are available now; the quieter entries map what is still to come.

  1. 1 The Premise Is Broken
  2. 1.1 Strengthening sovereignty over your own point of view
  3. 1.1.1 How we built a truth machine – and broke it Read
  4. 1.1.2 From verifiable to viral and the end of common sense Read
  5. 1.1.3 When common knowledge falls, democracy stalls Read
  6. 1.1.4 Securing the origins of truth Read
  7. 1.1.5 Spreading the truths that serve Read
  8. 1.2 Clinging to leaders who are lost To come
  9. 1.3 Two heads are not better than one To come
  10. 1.4 The room where it happens is dark To come
  11. 2 Insight Is Social
  12. 2.1 The insights we’re missing lie between us To come
  13. 2.2 The organization as community of inquiry To come
  14. 2.3 Every ecosystem as a cognitive economy To come
  15. 2.4 Leadership as architecting collective intelligence To come
  16. 2.5 Cutting windows into the room where it happens To come
  17. 2.6 Democracy as discovery To come
  18. 2.7 AI as an act of creation To come
  19. 2.8 Insight is social, but so is error To come
  20. 3 Leadership as Convening
  21. 3.1 The invitation is the intervention To come
  22. 3.2 The container makes the conversation To come
  23. 3.3 The meeting is the midpoint To come
  24. 3.4 From talk to discovery To come
  25. 3.5 Convenings that compound To come
  26. 4 Better Thinking, Together
  27. 4.1 Principles to reconstituting common knowledge To come
  28. 4.2 Rituals of epistemic hospitality To come
  29. 4.3 AI-augmented collective intelligence To come
  30. 4.4 Uncertainty by design To come
  31. 5 A New Civic Intelligence
  32. 5.1 Re-architecting “public space” To come
  33. 5.2 Repopulating public space To come
  34. 5.3 Urgent use cases for our new civic intelligence To come
  35. 5.4 Regenerating civic trust To come
  36. 6 Invitation (The Courage to Begin Again)

FIELD NOTES

Between the essays

The essays go out on Substack and LinkedIn. The Field Notes come to your inbox: a note from me now and then on what I’m seeing, to set beside what you’re seeing.