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Each domain anchors practice areas, pattern sets, and keystone activities so your decisions, artifacts, and learning loops stay coherent as they evolve.

🧭 Domain

Knowledge Architecture

Build the Blueprint for Knowledge Flow

A structured approach for organizing, linking, and governing movement of knowledge through people, tools, and systems so decisions and actions are informed, timely, and connected to context.

Practice Area

Epistemic (Anti)Patterns

Avoid Decision-Making Blind Spots

Where the delusions, biases, shortcuts live. Both the bad habits and the corrective ones. Activities here would feel like “cognitive bias games,” “delusion mapping,” or “bad-meme spotting.”

Practice Area

Knowledge Repositories

Keep Knowledge Alive and Connected

Practices that ensure knowledge is stored, maintained, and retrievable in ways that keep it useful and connected to evolving work.

  • 🧩 Interlinking

    Practices for weaving together artifacts, concepts, and records to form living knowledge webs.

  • 🧩 Knowledge Declutter

    Practices that ensure repositories don’t decay into stale, unusable archives.

  • 🧩 Modeling

    Creating simplified representations of complex systems to learn and experiment.

  • 🧩 Repository Architecture

    The overall design of how knowledge repositories are organized and maintained.

Practice Area

Knowledge Structures

Organize Knowledge for Access

Methods for structuring information so people can find, connect, and apply it when needed.

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Learning Experiences

Learn Continuously

Embedding feedback and experimentation into the system so teams adapt quickly, improve practices, and reduce risk over time.

Practice Area

Designing Learning Loops

Learning as a Möbius Strip

Creating explicit cycles where action, feedback, and reflection build on each other. Makes learning part of system rhythm.

  • 🧩 Adaptive Loops

    Feedback mechanisms that allow systems to learn and adapt in real time as conditions change.

  • 🧩 Model Callibration

    Ensuring conceptual and computational models remain accurate as reality shifts.

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Knowledge Habits

Make Knowledge a Daily Practice

Regular practices that keep knowledge flowing—small, repeated actions that build systemic literacy and collective memory.

Practice Area

Knowledge Skills

Build Knowledge Fluency

Practical abilities for working with knowledge itself—how it is found, framed, shared, and evolved. They make knowledge work tangible.

  • 🧩 Core Literacies

    The baseline competencies in reading, writing, reasoning, and collaboration that underpin knowledge work.

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Structuring Inquiry

Ask the Right Questions

Approaches for shaping questions and investigations so they open possibilities instead of closing them prematurely. Inquiry becomes a design tool.

  • 🧩 Collective Reasoning

    Collaborative reasoning across teams to identify systemic patterns and impacts, rather than siloed issues.

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Patterns & Temporal Intelligence

Design for Complexity

Anticipating time, uncertainty, and emergent behaviors when designing systems, policies, and processes.

Practice Area

Designing Temporal Intelligence

Plan for Change Over Time

Creating strategies and structures that anticipate how systems and contexts evolve.

  • 🧩 Flow Rhythms

    Cycles and tempos that keep learning and delivery sustainable over time.

  • 🧩 Temporal Integrity

    Ensuring systems remain coherent and functional as they evolve across multiple timelines.

  • 🧩 Temporal Structures

    Designing workflows, roadmaps, and dependencies to align with real-world timing.

Practice Area

Dynamic Patterns

Navigate Complex Patterns

Recognizing and leveraging emergent properties in complex systems.

  • 🧩 Emergence Dynamics

    The appearance of new patterns or behaviors from interactions within a complex system.

  • 🧩 Leverage Points

    Strategic points in a system where a small change yields outsized effects.

Practice Area

Feedback Dynamics

Manage System Feedback

Tuning feedback signals to avoid oscillations, delays, and unintended effects.

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Relational Leadership

Lead Without Bottlenecks

Leadership that distributes decision-making, builds trust, and enables autonomy while aligning the system toward shared goals.

Practice Area

Conflict Transformation

Turn Conflict into Collaboration

Turning conflict into a source of insight and alignment rather than division.

  • 🧩 Perspective Weaving

    Bringing together diverse perspectives into a coherent picture without erasing differences.

Practice Area

Distributed Decision-Making

Distribute Decisions Wisely

Empowering teams to make decisions locally without bottlenecks while maintaining coherence.

  • 🧩 Decision Mapping

    Techniques for visualizing decisions, options, and outcomes so groups can navigate complexity together.

  • 🧩 Systemic Decision Patterns

    Practices that deliberately cultivate trust so collaboration can thrive.

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Governance Patterns

Govern Fairly and Transparently

Designs for how authority, responsibility, and decision rights are distributed and enacted in socio-technical systems. They shape how fairness, compliance, and participation play out in practice.

Practice Area

Psychological Safety

Create Safe Teams

Creating an environment where people feel safe to speak up, share ideas, and admit mistakes.

  • 🧩 Trust Building

    Practices that deliberately cultivate trust so collaboration can thrive.

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Sociotechnical Systems

Designing Human–Technology Coherence

Systems where human, organizational, and technical dynamics intertwine. Understanding them requires seeing both social and technical as co-constitutive.

Practice Area

Machine Mediation

Integrate Human + Machine

Designing automation and AI interactions so they enhance human judgment, not replace it blindly.

  • 🧩 AI in the Loop

    A governance model where AI assists human decision-making while preserving oversight and judgment.

Practice Area

Social Systems

See and Shape Collective Patterns

The human networks, norms, and shared practices that create living structures of coordination and meaning.

Practice Area

System Design Principles

Apply System Design Patterns

Foundational principles for structuring resilient and maintainable systems.

  • 🧩 Relationship Design

    Patterns for intentionally designing the relationships between system elements.

Practice Area

Technology Systems

Build for Adaptability

Creating systems that can evolve as requirements, scale, or technologies change.

  • 🧩 Architecture Patterns

    Recurring solutions for structuring technical systems that balance resilience, adaptability, and clarity.

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Thinking Systems

Think in Systems

Seeing patterns, interdependencies, and feedback loops to make better decisions in complex, dynamic environments.

Practice Area

Mental Model Design

Design Better Mental Models

Building explicit representations of system behavior to support shared understanding.

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Metacognition

Know Thy Own Thinking

Awareness of your own thinking, feeling and sensing patterns.

  • 🧩 Bias and Fallacy

    Patterns of flawed reasoning that distort decision-making and perception.

  • 🧩 Reflective Habits

    Routines that make reflection and meta-awareness a regular part of work.

Practice Area

Modes of Cognition

Adopt Multiple Ways of Knowing

Frameworks for understanding how people think — analytical, intuitive, embodied, narrative — and designing systems that draw on them.

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