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The connectome

The structure behind the connected practice

I use “connectome” for the evolving map formed by the cards on this site: experiences, projects, practices, learning, public ideas, highlights, tools, and current interests connected by explicit reasons.

Connected notes and the connectome

Connected notes describes the method and the individual units. Each card holds one focused part of the story and records its immediate context. The connectome is the larger view that emerges when the site reads across all those notes and relationships. Put simply: the notes are the material; the connectome is the map.

How to read this connectome

Start with the changelog for the latest additions and meaningful revisions, then follow its links into the relevant cards and pages.

  • Cards are nodes. Each node opens a page with its own category, context, prose, sources, and connections.
  • Arrows are authored relationships. Their explanations say why it is useful to move from one card to another. Direction matters: a project can point to a technology as something used, while the technology can receive that project as an example.
  • Categories are reading aids. They distinguish roles from projects, enduring practices from tools, and completed work from current exploration. They do not prevent connections across categories.
  • “Linked from” is the incoming view of an authored relationship. It does not silently invent a reverse claim.
  • “Mentioned in” is weaker context. It records an ordinary prose link, not evidence of a project, qualification, endorsement, or direct relationship.
  • The visual layout is for exploration, not ranking. Position, proximity, colour, and node size help navigate the graph; they are not scores of importance, expertise, or influence.

The map has three practical ways in: use the network to follow relationships, browse the directory by group when you know the kind of context you need, or open an individual card and follow its explained links. The category guide gives examples of every group, while the relationship-type guide explains how to read the arrows.

Why call it a connectome?

In neuroscience, a connectome is a comprehensive map of connections in a nervous system. I am borrowing the network metaphor, not using the technical term literally. I also enjoy hearing it as connect to me: a gentle invitation to follow the relationships and get a more situated sense of how I work, rather than treating a résumé as a flat list of claims.

This site is not a brain scan, a neurological model, a psychological profile, an AI memory store, or a complete digital twin of me. It is a selected, authored map of public material about my practice. Like the practice itself, it can grow and change; an absent card or connection should not be read as proof that an experience or capability does not exist.

A map for learning and development

The connectome is also a way to make learning visible over time. My interest in Steiner-informed education and organisational development asks how people and the communities they form can develop together. That is a question about relationships, rhythms, responsibility, and the conditions that let experience become learning.

In the same spirit, Unlocking Co-creative Teams explores organisational learning in practice: how a team turns experience into shared understanding, experiments, and better next steps. The cards provide small, revisitable moments of reflection; the connectome shows how those moments relate across projects, tools, questions, and capabilities.

Ask an AI agent to explore it

If you are considering how I might help with a problem, you can give an AI assistant a structured starting point. The prompt tells it how to use the résumé, categories, cards, and relationship types while keeping claims tied to evidence.

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