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Vaughn Tan3rd January 2021 at 1:00pm

In this newsletter, mostly used in the sense of having different courses of action available to be taken. innovation is often about being able to see courses of action that others cannot—in other words, having a mindset or perspective that offers more freedom to act.

See also: affordances, agathonicity, complexity, design, forcing function, knowability, negative capability, not-knowing, open-endedness, preference uncertainty, quality, regenerative agriculture, resilience, resource with no predefined form, strategy, tradeoffs, value.