18. Reflections on the challenges of creating a learning culture in the charity sector
I’ve been a part of the Ratio and Lloyds Bank Foundation ‘How To Be Wrong’ network on and off for the past two years.
17. How To Be Wrong
The report How To Be Wrong is released today. It is the product of 50 or so people working in funding organisations, public systems and civil society. We read, met, reflected and wrote down ideas over a two year period. The ideas in the report feel useful to those of us in the network. But the real test is whether anybody outside our group is interested. We want to see if the ideas travel, and develop.
16. “How To Be Wrong” Through Racial Equity Lens
We have gotten race wrong in the UK but a lot of us are still denying that we got it wrong.
15. Maff Potts dances the Hokey Cokey
Maff, founder of Camerados, talks about dancing the Hokey Cokey, how we put one foot in and then one foot out of loneliness, mental ill-health, and other life afflictions.
14. The Weight of an Idea (and a Decision)
Some ideas are heavy, others are feather light.
13. More I and We
The question for our network is: what are the implications of these analyses for the way we learn? Two points, both missing from the Berwick reflection, stand out.
12. Trials, Surveys, Walkabouts and Curiosity
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab established in 2003 by Banerjee Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan has been the catalyst for nearly 1,000 evaluations in 81 countries.
11. It only becomes real when you write it down
Feynman’s test of an idea was whether he could explain it to a Martian. He approached all explanation in five steps.
10. From Science to Common Sense and Back
In science, sense is never commonly held. Only the consumers of science feel comfortable with common sense.
9. Predicting the unpredictable
All swans were white until the discovery of the black swan in Australia.
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