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Antifragile: Measuring Complexity
This post forms part of series I’m doing following the 2 day course I attended in Boston. Yaneer Bar-Yam was speaking along side Nassim N. Taleb. It might be easier to think about the simple first. What makes something simple? … Continue reading
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Antifragility: A User’s Manual
I’ve just returned from a two-day program for senior management run by the NECSI as part of the Executive Education programme. The program’s strapline was ‘Learn to thrive in a volatile and complex world by creating Antifragile organizations that thrive on … Continue reading
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Antifragile: Black Swans
The term black swan was originally used to describe something as impossible. Back then no-one had seen such a beast. Later when one was found in Australia the meaning changed. It was then used to characterise the thing that once … Continue reading
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More imagination less production line thinking please
I could pick any number of tweets over the last couple of weeks telling us how hypothesis are better than questions, are better than stakeholder stories, are better than user stores, are better than use cases are better than features, are better … Continue reading
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Sitecore MVC – A Dynamic Model
This is the second post in a series about using Sitecore MVC out-of-the-box. Last weeks post explored how to put together a simple page. This week I’ll try and create a typical navigation control which will involve pulling out data … Continue reading
Sitecore MVC – The Simplest Page
I’m interested in what Sitecore can do with Mvc out-of-the-box. I want Sitecore to pick up a request, parse the url and find the appropriate item. I want Sitecore to provide me with standard routes, controllers, models and helpers. I … Continue reading
Cellular Automata: Simple beginnings
I’m not sure how old I was when I first created a cellular automata. I suspect in my early teens, sat in front of a BBC Micro typing in the Basic code for Conway’s Life from a magazine. At the … Continue reading
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Iain Banks on ‘Miraculist thinking’
I’ve grown up reading Iain Banks. From the Wasp Factory and through his culture based science fiction, I’ve read them all, usually as soon as they are released in hard back. So it was a very sad day when he gave the statement about … Continue reading
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