Cards for Insight: Reach beyond grasp

As easy as a card game, as powerful as a social machine.

In a network, we play^n to win^n.

Cards for Insight: As easy as a card game, as powerful as a social machine.

Card: Navigating the New
Depending on where we are finding ourselves, we at times need more clarity (settling for one particular work and career trajectory, cultivating more trust with your significant other, …).

At other times when we feel as if our lives have turned into a rut, we need a necessary and sufficient amount of “blur”, of dissolving of formerly clearcut boundaries, in order to move into renewal.

Taken together, these combine, forming cycles of human becoming.

Navigating the new as a generative sequence:

Renewal, settlement, contentment, comfort zone, boundaries, denial, confusion, trust, movement, renewal.

… pick two cards and add your thoughts between …

Card: Muddling Through
Coping in a more or less satisfactory way
despite lack of expertise, insights, cues,
situational awareness, ideas, planning
or equipment.

… pick two cards and add your thoughts between …

“Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.”
— T. S. Eliot

… pick two cards and add your thoughts between …

Card: Design Cybernetics
Navigating
the new.

Cards for Insight: Cards are possibility space affordances.

Design Cybernetics