Cynefin: weaving sense-making into the fabric of our world
As part of its landmark Cynefin® at 21 celebrations, Cognitive Edge (now The Cynefin® Company) published Cynefin®: weaving sense-making into the fabric of our world. Purchase the book on our website.
The Story Behind our Brand Illustration
Our brand illustration shows three layers: the foundation being built, the valley we're stuck in, and the world waiting above. Here's what it all means.
Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management — Unattributed
Bridge heading into the smokey landscape. License: CC-0 I read Brennan Kenneth Brown's What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?...
Margin Flat Bill Cap
A clean, structured snapback that reads like quiet confidence. The five-panel, high-profile silhouette holds its shape while a vintage cotton twill gives the cap a worn-in character. The subtle embroidered emblem at the front and small stitched detail at the back keep the look minimal but intentional. A green undervisor peeks out with every tilt, adding a touch of old-school baseball and field-ready charm. Lightly ventilated with sewn eyelets and fully adjustable via the snap closure, this cap settles into the rotation for street runs, weekend markets, and late-afternoon meetups without shouting for attention. Product features - 100% cotton twill for a vintage look and feel - Structured five-panel, high-profile construction - Green undervisor for a subtle retro accent - Sewn eyelets for breathability - Adjustable snapback fits head circumferences 55–60 cm (21.63"–23.63")
An Ode to Links
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Sublime — A second brain with a soul
Sublime is a personal knowledge management tool designed to help you save, organize, and create with everything that inspires you. Trusted by leading thinkers a...
Pluralistic: Model collapse (12 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
One of my favorite rhetorical and analytical moves is joining things together (showing that two different, seemingly unrelated ideas are aspects of the same phenomenon) and taking them apart (resolving a paradox by demonstrating that what appears to be one, contradictory thing is actually two different things that have been lumped together).
Plato’s Warning Has Been Vindicated
We now believe that our newest tools, once perfected, will relieve us of the need to be informed at all.
Wesley's notes
Takeaways from our Exploratory Leaflet <-> Semble Integration Call
We need a PIT Crew for news
Zohran Mamdani has unveiled a radically collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach to building internal technology capacity. News has a lot to learn from it.
Rust's Golden Rule
I find myself thinking about a particular design principle of Rust today. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it named specifically before, but it gets referred to from…
