Radiohead lyrics! Notes from my consultant! Details about my daughter's football match yesterday! It could only be... blog.dougbelshaw.com/weeknote-07-...

TechFreedom: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/14/techfreedom.html

Like a stone: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/14/like-a-stone.html

A range of authentic selves?: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/14/a-range-of-authentic-selves.html

To find a new world, maybe you have to have lost one: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/14/to-find-a-new-world.html

Each culture is made of shared framings—ontologies of things that are taken to exist: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/14/each-culture-is-made-of.html

Thinking is hard: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/14/thinking-is-hard.html

Like it or not, it is a basic fact of human cognition that we think and act politically as members of social groups.: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/14/like-it-or-not-it.html

That @tomcw.xyz and I have created #TechFreedom for organisations that want to understand where their data really lives, how reliant they are on single platforms, and how much their tools watch them. Post: blog.dougbelshaw.com/techfreedom/ Site: techfreedom.eu #TechFreedom #DigitalSovereignty

That @tomcw.xyz and I have created #TechFreedom for organisations that want to understand where their data really lives, how reliant they are on single platforms, and how much their tools watch them. Post: blog.dougbelshaw.com/techfreedom/ Site: techfreedom.eu #TechFreedom #DigitalSovereignty

Digital sovereignty, French-style: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/12/digital-sovereignty-frenchstyle.html

How to Be Less Wrong in a Polycrisis: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/12/how-to-be-less-wrong.html

Hands, spoon, shovel: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/12/hands-spoon-shovel.html

New ebook: How to Be Less Wrong in a Polycrisis. Three lenses for updating your mental models and decision-making when the context keeps shifting. Info and download / pay-what-you-want: blog.dougbelshaw.com/polycrisis-e... #polycrisis #systemsthinking #decisionmaking #nonprofit

My server is getting absolutely hammered from Chinese IP addresses at the moment. Here's a direct link to Gumroad: dajbelshaw.gumroad.com/l/polycrisis (they're probably training AI models on my work 😅)

New ebook: How to Be Less Wrong in a Polycrisis. Three lenses for updating your mental models and decision-making when the context keeps shifting. Info and download / pay-what-you-want: blog.dougbelshaw.com/polycrisis-e... #polycrisis #systemsthinking #decisionmaking #nonprofit

I'm still working on it, but 'Scheduler' (working title) is already operational! ☕ Let me know if you fancy a virtual coffee* scheduler.dougbelshaw.com/s/a5d8022787... *I'm on holiday in Barcelona & Madrid next week, hence no availability

I’m updating the design soon, but can you see the use cases at the link below being relevant for you? 🤔 scheduler.dougbelshaw.com (Don’t just look at the screenshot!)

"The ones that can update them, though, share structural characteristics that are worth studying, replicating, and (where possible) building into new organisations from the start."

When the world changes, many organisations keep applying old assumptions to new problems. My latest post looks at the structures that actually help organisations learn to be less wrong. blog.dougbelshaw.com/mental-model... #Polycrisis #SystemsThinking #MentalModels

It turns out I write a longer #weeknote if I'm watching football on TV at the same time blog.dougbelshaw.com/weeknote-06-...

A rough attempt at laying out what in philosophy is most relevant for AI.: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/07/a-rough-attempt-at-laying.html

The heart is ancient and hasn't had any updates: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/07/the-heart-is-ancient-and.html

The winners will be headless: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/07/the-winners-will-be-headless.html

Octopus people: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/06/octopus-people.html

Choo choo!: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/06/choo-choo.html

Nouns are important, but verbs (workflows, processes) are too.

This is part 2 of my series on mental models in times of polycrisis. It looks at extended minds and tools - and how they change the way we think and act together.​ blog.dougbelshaw.com/mental-model... #SystemsThinking #MentalModels #DigitalLiteracies

I'm bored with Bluesky. No matter what I try it's just endless politics 😕 Politics, as Oliver Burkeman points out, is *not* the base layer of reality: substack.com/@oliverburke...

Source: Are.na

"A complex system, contrary to what people believe, does not require complicated systems and regulations and intricate policies. The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects. (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile)"

I'm finding using Anytype with Claude Code pretty useful www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6J0...

“Talk of cognitive bias often sounds like an accusation – as if some people are biased and others are somehow 'objective.' In reality, bias is inevitable when our finite human brains try to cope with a complex, fast-changing world. Our evolutionary hardware just wasn't designed for it.”

Shifting mental models is upstream of policy and personal advice blog.dougbelshaw.com/mental-model... #polycrisis #mentalmodels #systemsthinking #complexity

PhD Studentship: A Systems Thinking Approach to Understanding and Preventing Male Suicide – SHORT DEADLINE stream.syscoi.com/2026/02/03/p...

I've recently started using Anytype and thought it might be useful to share this www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtHZ... Anytype is pretty cool, I'm enjoying getting to grips with it: anytype.io

Building your sense of agency by granting yourself permission to do the things you are already allowed to do: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/03/building-your-sense-of-agency.html

This post connects 3 strands: 1. Reimagining continuum of ambiguity as continuum of legibility 2. Some political theory 3. The practice of working openly as "calibrated legibility"

Rethinking ambiguity as legibility: sometimes you want your work easily understood by many, sometimes you don't (and that's OK) Connecting my continuum of ambiguity to political theory about visibility, opacity, and what "working openly" actually means: ambiguiti.es/ambiguity-le...

What I've been up to this week blog.dougbelshaw.com/weeknote-05-... #weeknote

What I've been up to this week blog.dougbelshaw.com/weeknote-05-... #weeknote

We are, effectively, being fracked to death.: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/01/we-are-effectively-being-fracked.html

Sometimes the work is rest: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/01/sometimes-the-work-is-rest.html

A bit more than a to-do list: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/01/a-bit-more-than-a.html

Because I learned a second thing at the end of my two days of vertigo: That my idea was terrible.: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/02/01/because-i-learned-a-second.html

I wrote 22 posts in January on three broad themes: #SystemsThinking, #DigitalSovereignty, and #SelfImprovement Here's my retro: blog.dougbelshaw.com/january-2026/

I wrote 22 posts in January on three broad themes: #SystemsThinking, #DigitalSovereignty, and #SelfImprovement Here's my retro: blog.dougbelshaw.com/january-2026/

Anthropic's Claude Constitution shows that thoughtful companies can produce excellent ethics documents. Which is part of the problem. Why transparency ≠ legitimacy: blog.dougbelshaw.com/claude-const... #AI #AIEthics #TechGovernance #CorporatePower

Words/phrases used more in AI-generated text: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/01/30/wordsphrases-used-more-in-aigenerated.html

Makes you think: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/01/30/makes-you-think.html