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Tools for way-finding in uncharted territory

I’ve continued to play around with a new workflow for animations, using mental canvas and working on visuals before even thinking about the…

3 min readDec 12, 2021

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Tools for way-finding in uncharted territory

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sue borchardt

cynefin in 2 1/2 dimensions…

Cynefin is often described as a sense-making framework (sometimes as a decision-making framework), created by David Snowden, that has come…

2 min readNov 1, 2021

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cynefin in 2 1/2 dimensions…

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sue borchardt

Mapping for Social Change at Mapcamp 2021

I recently had the opportunity to share some thinking and mapping at a gathering of folks interested in Simon Wardley’s (swardley) method…

17 min readOct 26, 2021

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Mapping for Social Change at Mapcamp 2021

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sue borchardt

a whirlwind tour of cultural adaptation

1 min readMar 19, 2021

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Cultural Evolution —part 3 of 3: Entangled layers of organizing and the implications for a…

In the first two parts of this series, we explored dual inheritance, a theory I learned of from researcher Michael Muthukrishna. The basic…

5 min readMar 13, 2021

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Cultural Evolution —part 3 of 3: Entangled layers of organizing and the implications for a…

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Cultural Evolution: Episode 2/3 Game Theory & The Illusion of Explanatory Depth

In Episode 1, we introduced the idea of Cultural Evolution and how the dynamics of competition and cooperation come into play. Game theory…

6 min readJan 8, 2021

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Cultural Evolution: Episode 2/3 Game Theory & The Illusion of Explanatory Depth

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sue borchardt

Cultural Evolution — part 1/3: competition, cooperation, and the human tendency to copy others…

I spend a lot of time thinking about ways of tackling really hard kinds of change: challenges such as shifting collective behavior to…

5 min readNov 27, 2020

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Cultural Evolution — part 1/3: competition, cooperation, and the human tendency to copy others…

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Making Sense of Shit

Paradox and Punishment

Before I dive in, let me start by describing what I mean by paradox. Paradox refers to a statement or reality containing a contradiction…

5 min readFeb 3, 2020

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Paradox and Punishment

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Making Sense of Shit

Getting Strategic about Peace and Social Justice Work

When convening a group interested in strategy, particularly groups with varying professions and ideas about strategy (or none), there is…

3 min readOct 10, 2019

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Getting Strategic about Peace and Social Justice Work

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Making Sense of Shit

Making Sense of Wardley Maps

Wardley maps started popping up in my twitter feed in relation to one of my favorite thinking tools, the cynefin framework, sometime late…

5 min readFeb 22, 2019

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Making Sense of Wardley Maps

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sue borchardt

sue borchardt

My mission is to help groups to make sense of shit, especially complex shit and especially BEFORE it hits the fan. Current working job title: research artist

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