The Dynamics and Constraints of Cynefin - A Case Study
summary
Shows how Cynefin guided safe-to-fail experiments in SARS 2003 and was selectively reused for COVID: government ships free thermometers to every household, repurposes military thermal imaging into airport scanners, reruns educational dramas and opens free TV to keep people home, and converts offshore floating hotels to quarantine dorms. It also warns of failure — ignored cramped foreign worker dormitories trigger a large outbreak — and uses daily anonymized reports as a social policing constraint.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 0:25Order Domains
- 1:36Audit Domain
- 2:24Anthro Complexity
- 3:14Chaos
- 3:35Thermodynamics
- 4:02Fifth Domain
- 14:18Dark Constraint
- 14:58Enabling Constraint
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