How to Manage Scale & Complexity
Structured Thinking?
Constructing simple models – simple graphical models – of your Thinking and Your Understanding? Employing a methodology and a tool [‘Frameworks’] to reduce scale and complexity to manageable proportions?
Interdisciplinary Thinking; Interdisciplinary Doing
Not computing science; not psychology and HCI; not design and UX; not just cognitive science? not another software tool!
Biology, Systematics, Classification, Terminology, the Architecture of Information? “Design Informatics”? Systems thinking?
“Changing the Story?“
In his recent writing, “Changing the Story” by Peter Hyman, he argues for the need of a new type of interdisciplinary thinker and the need for radical education reform.
He argues that today, our problems are complex; that the civil service is struggling to grapple with the complexity that this country faces, and that we need a new type of interdisciplinary civil servant, that we need to “rethink the civil service”, and (recruit) a new type of civil servant able to bring imagination, fresh thinking, and multiple lenses to the most challenging problems.
In the Introduction to my Book: “‘Frameworks’ Making Sense of It all in the Age of Big Information, A Simple Methodology for Structured Thinking” – my thesis is that the world is not a simple place, it is a complex of many domains and systems and associations which are increasing in size and that “ordinary people” are becoming (and predictably the next generation of children will become) overloaded; overwhelmed; and perplexed in the digital world. How to reduce complexity? How do we make sense of it all? I have highlighted that “children need to understand complexity as soon as possible”. I argued that they should be taught to understand and manage complexity as soon as possible and that this principle lies at the heart of Foundational Education.
“‘Frameworks’ Making Sense of It all in the Age of Big Information, A simple Methodology for Structured Thinking” published by Brandspire Digital First Edition January 2025
The book is about ‘Frameworks’ – a thinking tool: a way, a methodology, and a mechanism, a tool for structuring thinking and for the construction and sharing of simple graphical models of thinking and understanding.
‘Frameworks’ is based on a simple theory of information modelling, visual thinking, and remembering. It is about structured thinking. It is about independent thinking, self-awareness, and agency. Surely especially important to think about in the current age of Big Tech and the sophisticated interfaces which have been algorithmically manipulating “users”, “consumers”, and the revolution of “Artificial Intelligence”, “AI Assistants”, “AI Agents” and “AI in Education”?