Ambiguiti.es

Doug Belshaw's research blog on productive ambiguity. 2016–2026.

22 posts. Browse by year or search.

2026 (1)

• Ambiguity, legibility, and working in the open 2 February 2026

2025 (1)

• Combining the Stacey Matrix and Continuum of Ambiguity for Better Decision Making 24 June 2025

2024 (1)

• On the strategic uses of ambiguity 18 January 2024

2023 (2)

• Open Badges and the ambiguity of recognition 14 June 2023
• The art of the zeugma 10 February 2023

2022 (2)

• An illustrative conversation about productive ambiguity 24 April 2022
• Sitting with ambiguity for innovation projects (or life in general!) 11 February 2022

2020 (1)

• Decision-making and ambiguity 22 January 2020

2019 (1)

• On the lack of ambiguity at the heart of 'Open Core' 20 September 2019

2017 (4)

• A philosophical approach to joining organisations 2 November 2017
• Business bullshit and ambiguity 18 September 2017
• What we know about 'knowledge' 23 March 2017
• Vagueness, ambiguity, and pragmatism 19 January 2017

2016 (9)

• On vagueness, or, when is a heap of sand not a heap of sand? 26 November 2016
• Reambiguation 12 November 2016
• Robert Greene on the importance of ambiguity in creative endeavours 21 September 2016
• What do we mean by 'open education'? 15 September 2016
• Why brand will always trump process 25 July 2016
• Why ontologies are best left implicit (especially for credentials) 5 July 2016
• The professional use of metaphor 21 May 2016
• The name of the thing probably doesn't matter 12 May 2016
• Introduction 1 January 2016