Love this “The new reality is ‘find multiple fascinations and build bridges between them.’ Specialists optimize for a stable world. The new reality is "find multiple fascinations and build bridges between them." Specialists optimize for a stable world. Specializing generalists—the M-shaped professionals—optimize for a world where the rules rewrite themselves every few years.”
Synthesists have always won out. You have to be interested enough to have enough data to see the dots. I often see people’s dots in their mind map (interestingly, there are maps to our experience that we carry around us) and join them when they can’t see or feel them.
It just occurred to be that I might start mapping people’s mind maps
I totally agree with you! We need to start mapping people's mental maps! Starting with our own minds, then comparing them with those of other professionals, and finally co-designing a common map. This ability makes you a meta-professional with greater opportunities for cooperation.
Dear Jurgen, I am always fascinated by your ideas and surprised how often they match with my reality. While I don‘t draw maps today I used to draw comics when I was young, too. I am not a skilled artist - yet I found the same fascination of „creating something real“ by my own, apart from computers, code etc. I found the Bikablo school of visualization for me. I can combine that when sketching some issues during meetings or designing whole posters for a given problem. I experienced it facilitates workshops a lot when drawing. People like some tiny figures occuring on different locations within a diagram to stand for this or that role or stakeholder. Plus: Nobody expects an engineer being capable of some descent drawing skills. And you can learn it. You don‘t need to be an artist with a birth-inherited superstar skill. Last/not least: It‘s just a lot of fun drawing rather than writing down stubborn bulletpoint list.
Analog is key here 🙃 The scarcity effect and “one-of-a-kind” is real. I also believe that uniqueness of something hand made will be very much appreciated in the near future.
This feels like navigation in careers too. The old GPS was ‘pick one straight road and follow it.’ The new reality is more like paper maps... Winding paths, intersections, detours, and the need to read patterns across landscapes.
Love this “The new reality is ‘find multiple fascinations and build bridges between them.’ Specialists optimize for a stable world. The new reality is "find multiple fascinations and build bridges between them." Specialists optimize for a stable world. Specializing generalists—the M-shaped professionals—optimize for a world where the rules rewrite themselves every few years.”
Synthesists have always won out. You have to be interested enough to have enough data to see the dots. I often see people’s dots in their mind map (interestingly, there are maps to our experience that we carry around us) and join them when they can’t see or feel them.
It just occurred to be that I might start mapping people’s mind maps
I totally agree with you! We need to start mapping people's mental maps! Starting with our own minds, then comparing them with those of other professionals, and finally co-designing a common map. This ability makes you a meta-professional with greater opportunities for cooperation.
Dear Jurgen, I am always fascinated by your ideas and surprised how often they match with my reality. While I don‘t draw maps today I used to draw comics when I was young, too. I am not a skilled artist - yet I found the same fascination of „creating something real“ by my own, apart from computers, code etc. I found the Bikablo school of visualization for me. I can combine that when sketching some issues during meetings or designing whole posters for a given problem. I experienced it facilitates workshops a lot when drawing. People like some tiny figures occuring on different locations within a diagram to stand for this or that role or stakeholder. Plus: Nobody expects an engineer being capable of some descent drawing skills. And you can learn it. You don‘t need to be an artist with a birth-inherited superstar skill. Last/not least: It‘s just a lot of fun drawing rather than writing down stubborn bulletpoint list.
Great to hear!
I even bought myself a drawing table.
Now I just need to learn to use it. 🙂
Analog is key here 🙃 The scarcity effect and “one-of-a-kind” is real. I also believe that uniqueness of something hand made will be very much appreciated in the near future.
I like to use Maps when I communicate. So even if it don't work all the time I try to combine the two worlds :-)
This feels like navigation in careers too. The old GPS was ‘pick one straight road and follow it.’ The new reality is more like paper maps... Winding paths, intersections, detours, and the need to read patterns across landscapes.