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Wyrd and magic

Bending reality (short version)

May 11, 2014 by Tom Graves

Do you believe in magic? Most people don’t. But this isn’t about magic as such – it’s about belief: in particular, Gooch’s Paradox, that “things not only have to be seen to be believed, but also have to be believed to…

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Categories certainty, Complexity / Structure, disruption, Enterprise Architecture, mythquake, Realities, SCAN, Society, Uncertainty, wyrd, Wyrd and magic Tags change, paradigm

Bending reality

May 11, 2014 by Tom Graves

Do you believe in magic? [Yep, this one is long – more than 7000 words, or long even by my somewhat-extreme standards for blogging. But there are good reasons why it needs to be this long, as you’ll discover later – and…

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Categories certainty, Complexity / Structure, disruption, Enterprise Architecture, mythquake, Realities, SCAN, Society, Uncertainty, wyrd, Wyrd and magic Tags change, paradigm

Republishing my other backlist

April 12, 2014 by Tom Graves

Yeah, it’s been a while. And that’s the point, really: when you get to my, uh, advanced age, you kinda find there’s quite a bit of legacy piling up behind you… some of which is worth revisiting from time to time.…

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