Cards for Insight: Behavior

In a network, behavior, knowledge and agency.

John Kellden
2 min readNov 28, 2022

Cards for Insight

  • Addressing how we relate to information and knowledge.
  • As easy as a card game, as powerful as a social machine.
  • Pick two cards and add your thoughts between.
  • Map moves conducive to knowledge mapping and knowledge flows.
  • Take thought, and take understanding as generative closure.

In a network, behavior, knowledge and agency.

Cards for Insight: Small group genius scope and social machine scale

Card: Our Story
Most people remain inside the particular first-order
cybernetics (eg Norbert Wiener), usually referred to
as personal lifestories, narratives and paradigms.

… pick two cards and add your thoughts between …

Card: Control
The secondary benefit from remaining inside epistemologies
we already understand to be wrong — is how these jury-rigged,
duct-taped belief systems provide emotional, social and
relational sense of control.

… pick two cards and add your thoughts between …

Card: Inference
At the most basic, it’s an ego and bandwidth
issue — at a conscious level, we can only handle
around ten bits per second of information.
Our inference ladder climbing is ridiculously bad.

— Yeah?! But it’s OUR OWN ridiculously bad
inference ladder faffing about, dammit!

… pick two cards and add your thoughts between …

Card: Trust
In that light, this is THE
worthwhile dilemma:

“Trust movement.”
— Alfred Adler

Cards for Insight: Understanding social information in light of preferable outcomes

… pick two cards and add your thoughts between …

Card: Behavior
Behavior:
— Nope, gonna stay put, thank you very much.

… pick two cards and add your thoughts between …

Card: Knowledge
Behavior turned agency.

… pick two cards and add your thoughts between …

Card: Agency
Agency:
— Why, oh why can’t we have nice things?

Cards for Insight: Add Your Thoughts
https://johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-insight-add-your-thoughts-1cc02b03374

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John Kellden
John Kellden

Written by John Kellden

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