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1st version of this talk Matt Milan and I gave at IA Summit 09, 22 March 2009
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09IA SUMMIT
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This is going to hurt.
Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose IA
Where do you do your best thinking? IA
“How come I am most creative when I am listening to angry
music”? IA
What do showers & Black Flag
have in common? IA
They help us let go IA
What can you learn from letting
go? IA
You can learn how to know what’s next IA
Context
FREEDOM
Man is born free, but everywhere he is in
chains
Routinized work produces efficient and predictable outcomes
What happens when things
become unpredictable?
FAIL
How likely is it that people will not panic in such circumstances?
1983AC143 The Gimli Glider
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How did this happen?
Why didn’t Sully panic?
“The training provides pilots with important technical skills -- they can practice flying
crippled planes -- but it also teaches them something more important: how to draw on
an optimal blend of reason and emotion. They learn how to ignore their fear when fear isn't useful and how to make quick,
complicated decisions in the most fraught situations.”
“Flight crews don't panic because they've
practiced staying calm.”
Conscious,Yet Unconscious IA
4 stages of competence
Unconscious Incompetence
Conscious Incompetence
Conscious Competence
Unconscious Competence
What lies beyond Unconscious Competence?
MASTERY
“ The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores,
by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates
confusion in those who think that they know.” Lao Tzu
How can you practice
being free?
AGAINST METHOD
I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity Who uses a machete to cut through red tape
With fingernails that shine like justice And a voice that is dark like tinted glass
She is fast, thorough, and sharp as a tack She’s touring the facility and picking up slack
Tennis drills are repetitive and relentless. They
teach the body to think, so the mind can do
strategy.
Tai Chi combines discreet movements
and a flowing sequence that shape a
tranquil mind.
There is nothing secret about yoga. The poses are well established across
many styles. But it is a bottomless practice
IA
Parkour is the attainment of human freedom through the confrontation of the built environment
flow+ repertoire=freedom
INNOVATION
Ceci n’est pas un innovation
Ceci n’est pas un innovation
Ceci n’est pas un innovation
Innovation is the design of future value
Larry says we can develop a science of
innovation
Saul says we need a platform for
experimentation
Guy says, innovation is about getting better
reality
How do we design a better future? IA
INNOVATIONPARKOUR
The Unfinished Discipline IA
How many years have we been trying to finish
IA? IA
What is our future value?
Structure IA
Unstructure IA
Unstructured IA
Unfinished IA
Emergence IA
Thebestdesign thinkingis
designdoing UB
UNFINISHED IS OPEN
FOR BUSINESS UB
THE UNFINISHED
KERNEL UB
AN ARCHITECTURE OF COMPETENCE UB
VISUALIZATION
TRANSPARENT & RIDICULOUSLY
EASY TO SHARE UB
Teaching without words, performing
without actions: that is the
Master’s way UB
PRACTICE SEEING UB
COLLABORATION
Networked Social
Production UB
If you do not trust the people, you
make them untrustworthy UB
PRACTICE TRUST UB
PARTICIPATION
Markets are our conversations UB
True mastery can be gained only
by letting things go their own way UB
PRACTICE OPENNESS UB
UB INNOVATION
Innovation is designing for emergence. UB
The world is formed from the void, like utensils from a block of wood.
The Master knows the utensils, yet keeps to the block:
thus she can use all things. UB
FREEDOM IA
The future of information architecture
is designing for emergence. IA
There is nothing secret about information
architecture. The tools are well established. But it is a bottomless
practice IA
The Future is Unfinished
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