Only day in my diary for a while with nothing formal in it.

Gave me a chance to catch up a little on the complexity in professional learning seminar I'd been a part of.

The speaker's basic thesis was that we need to get used to things being complex, realize that not everything can be simplified, and understand that we may have to hold competing ideas and trains of thought in our mind simultaneously. Some of my non-work learning has been leading in this direction a lot of late (possibly kicked off a few years back by a former colleage - so thank you S).

One of the references mentioned on Thursday was to Da Vinci and creativity which I had to look up. She'd quoted him as saying "to be creative you have to have constraints", which I rather liked though the closest formal quotation I could find was: "Art lives from constraint and dies from freedom."

The other reference she mentioned led me to a book in which I found the following quote which was interesting:
"An ambivalent stance toward past wisdom makes adaptive sense. Organizations that both believe and doubt their past experience retain more flexibility and adaptive capability." Weick, Karl (1979). _The Social Psychology of Organizing_. 2nd edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, p.7.