The Ignorance Trough
Where do I go to feed my ignorance? The answers are limitless really and, simplistically, I go where life takes me. However, there are some sources that have proven to be of more interest than others to me and that is the point of this post.
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I suspect that this set of links should be made easily available from this site. Of course there are 'sources' that I go to other than those that I find online, however those can be dealt with separately. For the purposes of this post I am solely linking to other websites.
Edge - a site that has the tagline "To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves." - launched twenty years ago it has so much material that you could possibly spend all your time here. Instead, I tend to browse occasionally, trying to pick up morsels that enlighten - and, like many other sites, I have regular emails to tell me of some "highlights".
TED - couldn't ignore this - OK, so the talks are "stylised" to a certain extent, the "TED format" is pushed, the presenters chosen, but it still throws up many really interesting talks - I have had many introductions through this site. The format is such that it is impossible to present anything other than "summary" material - but that is exactly what you want when delving into something new - as such it is ideal for "feeding your ignorance".
Farnam Street - I've only recently found this source - but given that the 'headline' is "My goal is to help you go to bed each night smarter than when you woke up. I’ll do this by giving you tools, ideas, and frameworks for thinking." this has to be a good one!! There is no pretence of 'originality' in that the content is a regurgitation of other people's work - and I don't mean that in any derogatory fashion - on the contrary it is (like TED, but in a different way) a source of almost bitesize chunks that lead to bigger portions.
Adriaan de Lange - perhaps a strange choice, however At de Lange is a thinker who perhaps deserves to be much better known.
The International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) - although perhaps a better starting point is their wiki .
If you haven't found kumu yet this is your chance - The Perspectives Project is the latest step taken by Gene Bellinger in seemingly endless quest for a "satisficing" way to share knowledge on all things systemic.
A ScoopIt list on Systems Thinking.
