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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

Embracing our inner weirdness

April 21, 2014 by Tom Graves

Easter. In the Christian calendar at least – and in the pagan one that preceded it – it’s supposed to be a time of rebirth. Yet rebirth of what? And into what, or whom? If it’s a more personal form…

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