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Sustainability & Efficiency via Radial Innovation
Do you only know how to innovate linearly/cumulatively? That's both exhausting and wasteful. Learn to add radial innovation to your team to work more efficiently, effectively and sustainably. You then only innovate linearly when you really have to. Analyse your own specific set of different business cycles and 'clocks' as opportunities to vary your own team's work process. Characterise these different 'epochs' that occur in your own business on different time scales and stra

Adam Timlett
Jul 82 min read


A unique growth strategy leveraging biological science
Leverage unique analysis for a successful growth strategy based on biological science and biology-inspired maths Turing Meta offers a unique consultancy offering to help your established company continue to grow on limited revenues and new investment. This is achieved by learning how to manage risk the way organisms do in the natural world, leveraging cutting-edge analysis of biological systems. Background idea Animals possess a central nervous system which they use to manage

Adam Timlett
Jun 176 min read


Innovate as a Team
Between 40-90% of innovation products & services fail*. Reject mainstream innovation theory which has failed to change this, and raise the odds of success instead, by raising the quality of your innovation team's interactions. Work with your team by learning from expert creative collaborators Learn to innovate creatively as a team by adopting innovation praxis shaped by expert creative collaborators from film, music and the arts, in this key workshop for companies and their i

Adam Timlett
Jun 112 min read


Systems in Nature. Why they have higher plasticity & innovative capacity, why efficiency is an organisational tuning parameter
Stance Sketch, James Robert White www.jamesrobertwhiteart.com Download timestamped PDF for citation Managing risk, both opportunity and adversity is about optimising for both for what you can produce now, and what the future may require, and this can look messy. In biology, this is about producing the optimal mixture of both finished products, and also optimising their parts for use in different future products the organism may expect to need. In a sense, this is similar to a

Adam Timlett
May 145 min read


The Mind as the Outcome of a Cryptographically Encoded Brain
Timestamped PDF for download and citation: Untitled, James Robert White www.jamesrobertwhiteart.com Introduction In this article I will present several different pieces of evidence that point towards the idea that the human mind is the product of the brain encoding information cryptographically . I will argue that this means that cryptographic capacity is synonymous with extreme algorithm flexibility . In other words, the cryptographic encoding of an algorithm is also just a

Adam Timlett
Jan 1126 min read


The Productive Pigeonhole Principle: An Answer to Searle’s Chinese Room
PDF with timestamp certificate for download and citation. Introduction Searle’s Chinese Room is a thought experiment which is supposed to prime our intuition against the possibility that the brain is simply some type of computer. It has a long history. First published in 1980, it came to my awareness only in the 1990s, when it was then mainly being discussed in the context of progress in things like early neural networks and whether such ‘sub-symbolic’ architectures made Sear

Adam Timlett
Dec 26, 202538 min read
Type Redundancy & Risk in Biology
This post is to provide access to a PDF which summarises a presentation I recently gave to the the Rationality Vienna group. I really enjoyed the discussion afterwards, and the opportunity to present the latest version of my ideas and work. In the presentation is a, hopefully, intuitive summary of the ideas that biological systems manage risk differently, and I also delve more into the relationship between this and computer theory. Specifically, I look at much more detail int

Adam Timlett
Dec 6, 20251 min read
Label Theory & the Value of Cross-talk
This post is to present access to a PDF describing a theory related to meta-modularity, my main argument for how risk is managed in biological systems. Label theory is a way to understand intuitively the potential value of 'cross-talk' in a system. The signalling systems and the gene regulatory systems in biological systems like the cells and the cell signalling in the human organism are full of cross-talk. This is the process whereby one signalling system interacts with a s

Adam Timlett
Dec 6, 20252 min read


Options beyond Growth and Failure
Timestamped PDF for download and citation In The 2nd Invisible Hand I argued that Nature may be exploiting other options around growth to control problems such as pollution and exhaustion of resources from over-exploitation. One interesting example of this may be the courtship of flamingos, whose complexity I argue is a cryptographic effect for the flamingos themselves, to navigate a complex process that limits the ability of flamingos to efficiently reproduce, so protecting

Adam Timlett
Dec 1, 202525 min read


The 2nd Invisible Hand. Learning from Nature & the incompleteness of economics
Timestamped PDF for Download and Citation I have spent some considerable time working on specifically how we can learn from cutting-edge biology to create a real, more complete science for how to better manage risk and develop our economic theory to actually face the challenges we have today. People have argued from a non-economics background that energy use ‘simply’ needs to be integrated properly into economic allocation decisions, but how to do this is left unsaid. Looking

Adam Timlett
Nov 5, 202510 min read


What if the simplest games to capture cooperation problems always involve 3 players?
The title image looks at a three way game involving the idea of triadic closure. This is a theory from graphs that demonstrates the idea that interesting interactions can be 3-way not simply 2-way. In standard teaching of game theory we model the simplest possible games of cooperation as games in which there are only two players. While we do talk about one player games, these types of games are those in which one player makes all decisions, and so there is no conception that

Adam Timlett
Nov 3, 20258 min read


A hypothesis on the difference between 'organism' and 'machine'
As a result of the research, described in my book "On the Origin of Risk", I am developing a new theory of organisms based on the distinctive way that they manage risk compared to typical human designed solutions. Central to this effort, I hypothesise a key difference between the concepts of 'mechanism' and 'organism' which can be defined scientifically, that is mathematically, by a certain concept of risk. Here is a simple thought experiment, which contains the essence of

Adam Timlett
Oct 30, 20255 min read


Video of On the Origin of Risk talk to DMDU
It was my pleasure to give a talk about how, in Nature, organisms cope with deep uncertainty as part of their management of their own...

Adam Timlett
Jun 1, 20251 min read


On the Origin of Risk published
'On the Origin of Risk' is available on all formats! On the Origin of Risk presents a new way of understanding the deep biases we have in the business and scientific communities in our theories of risk and the core concepts we use to manage risk, especially as organisations. It presents the evidence and argument from cutting-edge biology that risk is managed differently in organisms in Nature, and that we must learn from Nature in order to develop new theories and lead our ma

Adam Timlett
Feb 3, 20251 min read
On the Origin of Risk Book Launch Event
I'm excited to announce that PPL will be hosting the book launch of 'On the Origin of Risk' on the evening of 29th Jan. This will be...

Adam Timlett
Dec 20, 20241 min read
'On the Origin of Risk' coming in early 2025
I'm excited to announce that my new book 'On the Origin of Risk' is coming early in the 1st Quarter of 2025 with a likely release date of...

Adam Timlett
Nov 23, 20242 min read


Data Quality Management Using Game Theory & Organisation Games
These slides are part of a presentation on utilising game theory and ‘organisation games’, an extension of game theory developed to study...

Adam Timlett
Dec 15, 20235 min read


Leveraging Biology for Software Team Organisation & Architecture Problems
I recently gave a tallk on how to leverage cutting-edge biology to solve organisational problems with a focus on software teams and...

Adam Timlett
Dec 8, 20231 min read


Talk: How to See Your Organisation's Dragon
It was a pleasure to give a talk at the London Analytics Meetup, on Weds 27th Sept 2023, thanks to David Jayatillake and Funding Circle...

Adam Timlett
Oct 6, 20231 min read


Whitepaper: A biological definition of agility for a technology strategy knowledge graph
Context of technology strategy The investment in organisations and businesses in technology can be a significant part of the costs of...

Adam Timlett
May 19, 202310 min read
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