{"id":3919,"date":"2013-07-24T07:32:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T15:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2013-07-24T07:32:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T15:32:51","slug":"dave-snowden-on-the-heuristics-of-complexity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/dave-snowden-on-the-heuristics-of-complexity\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Snowden on the heuristics of complexity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cognitive-edge.com\/blog\/entry\/6054\/of-tittering-twittering\">A very useful list from Dave Snowden<\/a> which can be used to describe good tactics for dealing with complex situations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The whole success of social computing is because it conforms to the three heuristics of complex systems: finely grained objects, distributed cognition &#038; disintermediation<\/li>\n<li>In an uncertain world we need fast, real time feedbacks not linear processes and criticism includes short cycle experimental processes which remain linear.<\/li>\n<li>The real dangers are retrospective coherence and premature convergence<\/li>\n<li>Narrative is vital, but story-telling is at best ambiguous<\/li>\n<li>Need to shift from thinking about drivers to modulators<\/li>\n<li>You can&#8217;t eliminate cognitive bias, you work with it<\/li>\n<li>Extrinsic rewards destroy intrinsic motivation<\/li>\n<li>Messy coherence is the essence of managing complexity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very useful list from Dave Snowden which can be used to describe good tactics for dealing with complex situations: The whole success of social computing is because it conforms to the three heuristics of complex systems: finely grained objects, distributed cognition &#038; disintermediation In an uncertain world we need fast, real time feedbacks not linear processes and criticism includes short cycle experimental processes which remain linear. The real dangers are retrospective coherence and premature convergence Narrative is vital, but story-telling is at best ambiguous Need to shift from thinking about drivers to modulators You can&#8217;t eliminate cognitive bias, you &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","category-organization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-11d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}