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Guided knowledge flow practices. Play. Experiment. Explore the structure of your own mind. Discover better ways to express your thinking, cultivate flow, and shift how your teams think, decide, and build together.

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Build a Knowledge Studio

Build a Knowledge Studio

Welcome to your Knowledge Flow Studio — not a Confluence, but a kitchen where ideas simmer, collide, reduce, and occasionally catch fire. You’ll use this space to map insights, notice patterns, shape artifacts, and practice the skills of knowledge flow. Start small, stay curious, and don’t over-engineer it. Flow comes from practice, not perfection.

Core Competencies

Core Competencies

Pay attention to how you work. Notice how others work together. No judgment — don’t fix anything. Just notice. You might habits, patterns, and strengths you didn’t notice before.

Create and Use a Glossary

Create and Use a Glossary

Knowledge can’t flow when people are using the same words to describe different experiences. Defining important concepts, so others understand what you mean when you use them, is a core knowledge practice.

Explore Ideas

Explore Ideas

Create a table or space that lets you easily capture ideas as they occur to you. We are so tangled up in doing and efficiency …we frequently forget to think.

Spot the Patterns

Spot the Patterns

Patterns are very difficult to see. We need to train our minds to look for them ... and then, over time, see them.

A Patterns Noticed practice encourages that training. Or strengthens it, if you are already good at pattern thinking.

Knowledge Flow is all about noticing patterns. Begin by detecting delusions. (Or ... any pattern that arises.)

Knowledge Studio

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A free guide to building your personal lab for learning, applying, and refining your Knowledge Flow skills.

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AI Advice Router

Routes queries efficiently, reduces overload, and surfaces hidden experts.

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AI Signal Scout

Combines machine breadth with human contextual judgment for better time-sensitive sensing.

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Anchor Term Mapping

Creates stable reference points for meaning flow.

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Async Event Response Design

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Blame Game Unmasking

Shifts focus from individuals to systems.

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Boundary Definition Workshop

Clarifies shared concepts so they stay actionable.

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Build a Knowledge Studio

Build your knowledge flow workspace. Use a template or start from scratch.

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Capabilities Model

Structures knowledge activity in service to what people do.

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Capability–Story Map

Grounds abstract capabilities in shared lived experience.

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Collective Role Swap

Builds empathy and reveals interdependencies.

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Concept Calibration

Aligns mental models across functions.

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Concept–Capability Linking

Grounds abstract ideas in operational reality.

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Consent

Builds mutual care and trust

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Consider Adopting an Existing Ontology

Leverages proven semantic frameworks, reduces reinvention, and aligns your org’s meaning structures with wider ecosystems.

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Constraint Remix

Turns constraints into creativity fuel; strengthens adaptability.

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Core Competencies

Prompts to help you notice and expand core competencies

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Crafting Responses

Develops necessary metacognition and bias awareness.

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Create and Use a Glossary

Develop the habit of defining the key concept you use.

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Cross-Link Challenge

Encourages relationship-building between knowledge artifacts.

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Data–Meaning Pairing

Ensures data is interpreted with shared significance.

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Decision Forecast

Builds foresight and adaptive thinking.

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Decision Mapping Sprint

Makes the decision network visible and adjustable.

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Decision Pre-Mortem

Improves foresight and signal sensitivity.

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Decision Stress-Test Simulator

Reveals vulnerabilities and strengthens distributed decision-making.

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Describe Time Visualizer

Makes time models explicit and comparable across roles.

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Describe Time! Session

Harmonizes divergent mental models about sequencing and timing.

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Discover Counterintuitiveness

Identify systemic blind spots

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Distributed Authority Drill

Tests resilience and adaptability in authority shifts.

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Domain Modeling

Create an ecosystem from a big ball of mud

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Engagement Space Audit

Optimizes collaboration conditions for the team’s reality.

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Eventstorming Workshop

Makes the event flow visible and shared; uncovers hidden dependencies.

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Eventual Consistency Simulation

Builds comfort with non-instant alignment; strengthens resilience to lag in information flow.

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Explore Ideas

Begin creating a bit of framework to support your thinking practice

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Glossary Sprint

Reduces misalignment and strengthens shared meaning.

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Go find out!

Build proactive learning skills

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Governance Retrospective

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Graph Link Recommender

Expands the web of relationships without relying solely on memory.

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Human–Machine Feedback Loop Design (Intertwingled by Design)

Keeps automated interlinking relevant and trustworthy.

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Human–Machine Feedback Loop Design (Ontology-Centered Practice)

Maintains semantic accuracy while letting AI accelerate discovery.

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Human–Machine Feedback Loop Design (Self-Organizing Systems)

Ensures AI augments, not overrides, collective intelligence.

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Human–Machine Feedback Loop Design (Temporal Intelligence)

Integrates AI into timing-sensitive workflows so both human and machine improve continuously.

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Iceberg Model

The call is coming from inside the house

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Inflection Point Alert

Embeds proactive response into the system.

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Intertwingling Tool & Process Selection

Embeds intertwingling into both the tech stack and daily habits so relationships strengthen over time.

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Intervene Game

Avoid pushing problems in the wrong direction

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Jira Reimagined Flow

Turns tooling into a bridge instead of a barrier.

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Just-in-Time Brief

Cuts noise and focuses shared attention.

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Know Your Architectural Patterns

Translate knowledge flow into the technology system

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Knowledge Expiry Audit

Keeps the knowledge base alive and trustworthy.

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Knowledge Expiry Bot

Maintains currency of knowledge with less manual effort.

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Knowledge Relationship Audit

Keeps the knowledge network healthy and navigable.

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Knowledge Skills

Develop core knowledge worker skills

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Law of Two Feet Simulation

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Logical Fallacy Game

Build ability to spot faulty informal logic and improve systemic reasoning.

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Meaning Drift Audit

Prevents fragmentation of shared language.

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Meaning Drift Detector

Prevents subtle divergence in shared meaning.

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Micro-Charter Workshop

Builds alignment and autonomy without heavy governance.

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Multi-Perspective Term Definition

Maintains richness while building coherence.

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Narrative Glossary

Makes definitions vivid and easier to remember.

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Ontology Evolution Session

Keeps semantic backbone relevant.

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Ontology Growth Assistant

Keeps the semantic backbone evolving with minimal manual scanning.

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Priority Pulse Check

Surfaces mismatches early and aligns action to changing contexts.

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Build systemic learning skills

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Relationship Map Jam

Surfaces hidden interdependencies; builds shared mental models.

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Relationship Types Review

Improves fidelity of meaning representation.

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Represent Part of Your Domain as a Graph

Makes relationships tangible; creates a shared visual reference for meaning flow.

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Responsibility Boundaries

Clarifies accountability and builds resilience.

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Rotating Stewardship

Distributes ownership; invites continuous improvement.

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Rule-Setting Workshop

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Shadow Decision Role

Surfaces hidden dynamics; invites reflection without blame.

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Signal Log

Builds sensing muscle and links perception to context.

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Silo Swap Day

Builds empathy and shared language between silos.

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Spot the Patterns

Integrate your lived experience with your exploration of the Six Dominant Delusions (of usual size)

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System AND Exercise

Develops skill in discovering latent relationships.

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The Advice Process

Encourages informed autonomy and shared responsibility.

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Think Differently

Diversify modes of thinking

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Three Reasons Rule

Improves reasoning clarity and transparency.

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Three-Lens Translation

Builds translation agility; reveals hidden assumptions; makes meaning usable for different audiences.

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Time Autonomy Block

Balances collaboration with focus; gives teams control over time use.

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Time Horizon Swap

Strengthens ability to shift temporal lenses quickly.

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Timeline Rewind

Improves temporal awareness and foresight.

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Topic Threading

Shows how one concept interweaves through the org’s knowledge fabric.

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User Story Walkthrough via Graph

Connects ontology to lived experience and reveals relationship gaps.

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Whiteboarding Habit

Encourages co-creation and shared mental models.

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Wireframe Walkthrough

Builds integrative design awareness.

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Yes, And… Week

Builds trust and continuity in dialogue.

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