Finds and Thinks

Finds and Thinks

A codex of ideas without porfolio

About the Book

About the Author

Andy Wootton
Andy Wootton

At the end of 2013 I started writing about 'the meta-physics of information'. I thought about ideas and creativity. I had worked in and around information systems, most recently as an analyst in 'Agile' and 'Lean' software development. I experimented with using coincidence as a creative tool which led to many ideas that I believe to be new developing and being recorded in my 'laboratory notebook' in parallel, to free up head-space. Having just escaped from a job in which I was asked to write plans for unplannable things, I asked myself what an Agile/Lean author would do. I ended up here.

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Outline (what we might laughingly call “a plan”)
  • Intertwingularity (also see: Hierarchy)
    • (Theodor) ‘Ted’ Nelson
    • Hash-tagging

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