Rethink Constraints Posts
Rethink Constraints is the name of Jerry's Substack. These are posts, past and future, sorted by topic.
Stump Jerry's Brain Posts
- Behold, Stump Jerry's Brains! (done)
- My Quantified Self Aha! (done)
- Jochen's Mirror (done)
- Every Link Is a Decision (done)
Tech History Posts
GenAI Posts (#GenAI)
- GenAI's Mixed Blessings (done)
- Tech Owes You an Apology
- GenAI Gives Us Superpowers
- Does GenAI Obsolete Notetaking?
- Does GenAI Obsolete Tools for Thinking?
- Does GenAI Obsolete Reading?
- On GenAI's Origins
- Finding Your GenAI Advisors
- GenAI Trust Issues
- Proposing a GenAI Compact
GenAI + Future of Work Posts (#GenAI+FoW)
- GenAI Automates Tasks, Not Jobs
- The Elephant in the GenAI Room
- GenAI Is Like a Flesh-Eating Bacterium (includes GenAI Automates Tasks, Not Jobs)
- The Future isn't AI - It’s CHI
- Will GenAI Survive Capitalism? (includes Multiple Promising Technologies Were Warped by Capitalism)
- Will Capitalism Survive GenAI?
- The GenAI Job Reentry Dilemma
What If We Trusted You Posts (#wiwty)
Rethink the Future Posts
- On Sensemaking
- Level Up Media
- What Are Our Next Two Stacks?
- We Used to Know How to Live in Community on the Commons (done)
- Snip and the Origins of the Global Financial Crisis
- Microsoft Office Is a Tractor Beam for Software
- Fabulous Fungal Metaphors
- PlaceboPhone
- GenAI Gives Us Superpowers
- What's the Second Commandment?
- Foobarism
- Upkido
- The Big Sentence
- Preparing for Our Cyborg Future
Rethink the Future Podcast Episodes
- Ida and Jerry Explore Unlocking Human Potential (done)
- How Might We Make a Better Future? (explaining the podcast)
- Jerry's Theory of Change
- Joy and Jerry Discuss The Big Fungus
- Sitting with the Enemy (Daryl Davis interview)
- Who to invite around On Sensemaking?
Next Stacks Posts
Meta Posts
Context Posts
- On Constraints and Strategy
- On Crossposting (done)
- A Map to This Project
- My Missions
- About This Substack
- I Think in Webs
- Rethinking My Own Constraints (series)
- On the Nature of Constraints
- On Sensemaking
- Getting My Kite Out of Storage (about my new speaking reel)
- Variants of Capitalism
Jerry's Brain Posts
- On Curating a 28-Year-Old Mind Map
- Enumerated Wisdom
- isms
- Taglines
- Contrarians Who Make (or Made) Sense (series)
- Useful Thinking Frameworks and Mental Models (Braincast) (done)
- Variants of Capitalism (Braincast)
- Communities Working to Fix World Problems (Braincast)
Design from Trust Posts (#DesignfromTrust)
- My Story of Trust (done)
- Trust is… (done)
- The Alternatives to Sorting Out Trust All Suck (done)
- Wikipedia Started as the Nupedia (done)
- Trust Is Cheaper Than Control (done)
- Design from Trust Is Widespread Already (done)
- From Trust, Not For (done)
- Design from Trust - How to Build Better Futures
- Design from Trust Requires Thoughtful Design
- We Normalized Mistrust
- Trust Just Feels Better
- Scarcity = Abundance - Trust
- The Joy Line
- Jerry's Trust Summary
- Post Capitalism Fix Capitalism?
- But Trust Doesn’t Scale!
- How We Receive Matters
- Design from Trust in my External Brain (a Tour)
- People are Generally More Trustworthy Than We Think They Are
- Be Undefended, Not Defenseless
- Not Naïve Trust
- But That Won't Work Here
- Trust's Many Facets
- Trust In Today's Political Arena
- We Are Often Blind to Design from Trust
- The 2 Oh Shit!s
- Why You Love Design from Trust Already
- Pointing Out the Pattern
- Design from Mistrust
- Reality Check
- Design from Trust as a Differentiator
- Trust Is the (Only) Way Forward
- Undermining Trust Is a Strategy
- The Big Picture - Effects of Design from Trust
- Design from Trust is Corruptible
- Examples of Design from Trust (series)
- On the Benefits of Design from Trust
- Principles of Design from Trust (series)
- Trust Unlocks Innovation
- Design Thinking and Design from Trust
- Design from Trust as a Methodology
- Context: The Big Sentence
- Trust Is the Crucial Constraint
- Writing a NeoBook About Design from Trust
- Oh Advertisers 1 (done)
- Oh Advertisers 2 (done)
Rel8 Posts
Open Global Mind Posts
Constraint Tales
- Examples of Design from Trust (series)
- The Dark Side of Rethinking Constraints (series)
- The Web Is Forgiving (done)
- Ackoff Was a Master at Rethinking Constraints
- Brands Are Trapped
- How the Robocar Trifecta Would Improve Our Cities
- Watching Travelers Eat Citibank
Innovation Posts
- The Dark Side of Innovation
- My Innovations (series)
- Dark Innovation (series)
- Beyond the Innovator's Dilemma (extending Christensen’s model)
- Types of Innovation (Braindrop)
- Other Kinds of Innovation (record my 2020 Prezi)
The Big Picture Posts
- Fighting Over the Joystick
- This Project's Goals
- We Used to Know How to Live in Community on the Commons
- Communities Working to Fix World Problems (Braincast)
- Questions for Those With Projects to Fix the World
- Does Ethical Capitalism Pencil Out?
- Rethinking My Own Constraints
- Impossible Is Just the Most Famous Constraint
- It's an Aleph
NeoBooks Posts
- PowerPoints Should be Playlists
- What's a NeoBook?
- What's a Nugget? (includes - Nuggets, Narratives, and Points of View)
- Nuggets Are Really Powerful
- Nuggetization
- The Unwritten Laws of Books
- How Books Fail Us
- The NeoBooks Manifesto
- Level Up Media
- The Creator’s Dilemma
- Why Hasn’t Software Solved Collaboration?
- Making Ideas More Useful (includes The 1-2-4-All App)
- Jerry's Presentation Nuggets
- Knowledge Should Accumulate Other thinkers on this idea. Fellow travelers
- Bonfires on the Horizon
- On Sensemaking AI role in collective intelligence
- The History of Sensemaking (all those initiatives!)
- Smelling the Web (my IDM service)
- Smelling Smartphones (my CIE service)
The Big Fungus Posts (#TheBigFungus)
- Fabulous Fungal Metaphors (use Claude)
- Leaf-Cutter Ants Can't Digest Leaves
- Joy and Jerry Discuss The Big Fungus
- Help me Feed the Big Fungus
- On Curating a Long-Term Memory
4S Posts (See, Shift, Shape, Set)
- The 4S Innovation Process (by rethinking constraints)
- Seeing Constraints
- Shifting Your Perspective
- Shaping Your Future
- Setting Your Course
Joy Line Posts (#JoyLine)
Current Events Posts
- This Kamala Moment (done)
- The Dark Side of Rethinking Constraints
- Kayfabe, OODA, DARVO - Why Democrats Are Clueless
- Charting a Positive Way Forward
- DFT FTW (as a path forward)
Trump Field Manual
- Trump's Playbook
- Kayfabe, OODA, DARVO - Why Democrats Are Clueless
- Misunderestimating Donald Trump Is Very Dangerous - point to old video series
- Trump II Is Teaching a Masters Class in Rethinking Constraints
- On Trump and Constraints
- Trump Through the Trust Lens
Rethink Society Posts (#RethinkSociety)
- Rethink Masculinity
- Ownership versus Stewardship
- Let’s Treat Refugees as First-class Global Citizens
Behind the Reel (series)
All part of Rethink Constraints. (#RethinkConstraints)
And all funneled through The Queue of upcoming posts.