{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68357ec21b846c88bdcd7480/6a928734ae4f283336a6bd14?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"151: It's never lupus","description":"<p>What can a fictional, addicted, borderline-unbearable doctor show us about stalled strategy projects?</p><p><br></p><p>When we have a small baby, our TV diet needs to be relatively unchallenging, and we recently rediscovered House. And got talking about how their \"differential diagnosis\" — that whiteboard full of things the disease <em>might</em> be — is basically our Signals &gt; Stories &gt; Options stuff but with apparent misanthropy and a gammy leg.</p><p><br></p><p>In this one we feel our way through what happens when you stop trying to be right and start trying to be interestingly wrong. Featuring split-brain patients, a red herring tomato sauce, and tfw a video camera destroys all your assumptions about how you're dancing.</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Why the first story you settle on almost always blinds you to everything else</li><li>Why \"the problem is a lack of X\" is smuggling in a pre-determined solution. Dig more (\"imagine you have X, now what happens?\")</li><li>Performative ideation and how to tell the difference between a real differential and people making noises in a workshop</li><li>Everybody lies, and it's often got nothing to do with active dishonesty</li><li>The illusion of explanatory depth ... go on then, <em>you </em>draw a bicycle from memory and see how you get on</li><li>Knowledge shields and the painful, essential, wondrous experience of watching yourself on video</li></ul><p><br></p><p>For anyone who's ever sat in a meeting where everyone's certain and the ideas feel like they're on predetermined rails.</p><p><br></p><p>References</p><p><br></p><ul><li>House M.D. (TV series) Dr Gregory House, played by Hugh Laurie; Dr Wilson as the Watson figure</li><li>Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle, cited as House's explicit origin</li><li>Signals &gt; Stories &gt; Options — Crown &amp; Reach method — <a href=\"https://triggerstrategy.substack.com/p/signals-stories-options\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://triggerstrategy.substack.com/p/signals-stories-options</a></li><li>Gary Klein's Data/Frame model of sensemaking; expert vs. novice pattern recognition</li><li>First-fit pattern matching, attributed to Klein in the episode; more commonly Snowden's framing</li><li>Knowledge shields, a concept from naturalistic decision-making; source is Accelerated Expertise (Hoffman, Feltovich, Klein, Klein, Andrews, Fiore, Moon)</li><li>Adam Mastroianni's Experimental History, nice examples of the illusion of explanatory depth <a href=\"https://www.experimental-history.com/p/underrated-ideas-in-psychology\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.experimental-history.com/p/underrated-ideas-in-psychology</a></li><li>The illusion of explanatory depth, including the toilet study (Rozenblit &amp; Keil) and the draw-a-bicycle test (Rebecca Lawson)</li><li>Split-brain research – corpus callosum severance, confabulation across hemispheres (Michael Gazzaniga's work, though not named in the episode)</li><li>Matt Lerner, friend of Tentacles, ran an experiment on AI-generated marketing suggestions for Lindy Hop <a href=\"https://www.systm.co/post/can-chatgpt-replace-customer-interviews\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.systm.co/post/can-chatgpt-replace-customer-interviews</a></li><li>Marks &amp; Spencer Collection olive oil ice cream — unsponsored, regrettably</li><li>Lindy Hop — our dance practice, video-recording story</li></ul>","author_name":"Tom Kerwin"}