Dave Snowden - Sensemaking, complexity, and frameworks for living

Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

For years Dave Snowden has helped me understand how to navigate a complex world better than perhaps any other thinker. He draws so widely from all schools of thought in forming frameworks for sensemaking.

This episode is expanding. It will be with me for a long time and I hope it stays with you, too.
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Show Notes:

• Complicated vs complex (08:00)
  • Paul Cilliers
  • Dynamics in Action Alicia Juarrero
• Lecture: "How not to manage complexity"
• The Patterning Instinct Jeremy Lent (16:00)
• Tropes in narrative theory (17:50)
• Assemblage and 'lines of flight' -- Gilles Deleuze (18:10)
• Jacques Derrida 'Aporia' (22:20)
• How the light gets in Festival (29:15)
• Flourishing Salons (29:40)
• Cynefin Framework (24:00 & 32:50)
• Nora Bateson Origins episode (37:00)
• Bateson-Snowden "When Meaning Loses Its Meaning" (37:00)
• Stacey Matrix (39:00)
• Daily routines (50:00)
• Hope (51:10)
  • Hope in the Dark Rebecca Solnit
  • Theology of Hope Jürgen Moltmann
  • Hope Without Optimism & Radical Sacrifice Terry Eagleton
  • Krista Tippet 'muscular hope'
• Lightning Round (55:30)
  • Book: Spirit in the World Karl Rahner
  • Passion: Walking and rugby
  • Heart Sing: New framework
  • Screwed Up: senior leadership course at IBM
• Find Dave online:
  • Twitter: @snowded
  • LinkedIn
  • The Cognitive Edge (Dave's blog)
  • Sensemaker ethnographic tool
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series
  • Dave’s playlist