Life Discovery: Biography, Journey, Program (and a possible book, Part 3)

A collection of articles and links for a possible book

This article is Part 3 of Life Discovery: Biography, Journey, Program (and a possible book).

• Part 1 of the article introduces three metaphors for reflecting on the Life Discovery Project.

• Part 2 uses three metaphors to organize a possible book about the Life-as-Project approach.

Part 3 aims to curate a collection of articles and links for the possible book. It’s not a Table of Contents, but references.

The Structure of the Collection

These articles and links are organized with the following ten themes.

• 1 — LAA — The “Life as Activity” Project
• 2 — PEA — The “Project Engagement” Approach
• 3 — LAP — The “Life as Project” approach
• 4 — LDA — The “Life Discovery Activity” Project
• 5 — AAS — The “Anticipatory Activity System” Framework
• 6 — SIA — The “Significant Insights Analysis” Project
• 7 — BIO — The Biography
• 8 — MNB — The Board @ Milanote
• 9 — SSL — The Shaper & Supporter Lab (SSL) Program
• 10 — CPN— The Complexity of “Project Network”

By using the model of “Project Network”, I designed the following diagram to visualize the complexity of the above ten themes.

The model of “Project Network” is a multiple-level network that considers 1) a network of Themes, 2) a network of Projects, and 3) a network of People.

• All theoretical approaches and frameworks belong to the network of themes.
• All real activities such as developing a toolkit, designing a canvas, and hosting a program, are part of a network of projects.
• All things about people’s biogeography are located in the network of People.

The diagram is a map of the archive of my six-month journey in developing the Life-as-Project approach.

If you read Part 1 and Part 2 about the possible book, you can find more details in the following articles and links. In order to represent the context of my thoughts, I repeat some links sever times.

So far, this archive only collects public articles and links. There are at least two things it doesn’t contain: 1) I designed many diagrams for the project, and 2) I also discussed related topics with many friends in private channels such as emails and Linkedin messages.

Numbers of the Collection

• Total 136 articles and links
• Total 1,646 min read
• Total 452, 650 words

1. The Development of the “Life-as-Activity” project

(12 articles, total 190 min read, 52250 words)

• Life as Activity (version 0.3) — 37 min read — Nov 29, 2020
• The Career Theme Canvas — 4 min read — July 23, 2021
• D as Diagramming: The Path of Creative Life — 11 min read — August 30, 2021
• D as Diagramming: The Life-as-Activity Framework (v2.0) — 5 min read — September 10, 2021
• D as Diagramming: The Opportunity Formula — 9 min read — Oct 5, 2021
• D as Diagramming: The Creative Work Canvas — 31 min read — Oct 22, 2021
• D as Diagramming: The Customer Profile and Life-to-be-Owned — 33 min read — Oct 27, 2021
• Mapping Thematic Spaces #2 — The “Activity” Thematic Space — 16 min read — Jan 9, 2022
• Life-to-be-Owned: The Achievement Chain — 9 min read — Jan 9, 2022
• The Slow Cognition Project (Phase II): Activity Analysis for Creative Work Study — 17 min read — May 31, 2022
• Life Curation: The Container, Double R Analysis, and Challenges — 9 min read — June 9, 2022
• Life Strategy: The “Possible Journey” — 9 min read — June 10, 2022

2. The Development of the “Project Engagement” Approach

(16 articles, total 205 min read, 56375 words)

• The Developmental Project Model — 24 min read — Dec 13, 2020/March 13, 2021
• Project-oriented Activity Theory (Book) — 16 min read — Jan 24, 2021
• The Project Engagement Toolkit (2021) — 10 min read — Feb 3, 2021
• Platform Innovation as Concept-fit — 49 min read — March 24, 2021
• The Re-Engagement Project — 7 min read — May 27, 2021
• P4D Case Study #1: Airtable(Community List) — 13 min read — June 20, 2021
• D as Diagramming: The DEEP Framework — 8 min read — July 18, 2021
• Thematic Space: Project as Story — 15 min read — Jan 12, 2022
• The Project Engagement Toolkit (2022) — Jan 18, 2022
• Thematic Space: The Project Engagement Toolkit for Creators — 12 min read — Jan 18, 2022
• Knowledge Discovery: The “Double Theme” Strategy — 14 min read — April 2, 2022
• The Deep Analogy Board — Activity Theory — Milanote Board — April 22, 2022
• Life Discovery: Running A Developmental Project — 9 min read — June 9, 2022
• Re-learning Activity Theory — 13 min read — June 27, 2022
• Life Discovery: “Project Engagement” and “Themes of Practice” — 4 min read — July 4, 2022
• Life Discovery: “Formation of Concepts” and “Themes of Practice” — 11 min read — July 5, 2022

3. The Development of the “Life-as-Project” Approach

(9 articles, total 104 min read, 28600 words)

• The Sailor’s Mandala: A Life Discovery Framework — 5 min read — Jan 4, 2022
• The Life Discovery Toolkit (v1) — 14 min read — Feb 7, 2022
• Life Discovery: The Life-as-Project Approach — 9 min read — Feb 13, 2022
• Life Discovery: Mapping Networks of Enterprise — 9 min read — Feb 14, 2022
• Mapping Thematic Space #6: The “Life” thematic space — 35 min read — Feb 17, 2022
• Life Discovery: The “Being by Doing” Principle — 4 min read — March 27, 2022
• Life Discovery: The “Performance as Experiment” Principle — 7 min read — April 6, 2022
• Life Discovery: The “Engagement as Projection” Principle — 10 min read — April 14, 2022
• Life Discovery: The “Discovery as Development” Principle — 11 min read — April 19, 2022

4. The Development of “Life Discovery Activity” (Tools and Programs)

(17 articles, total 213 min read, 58575 words)

• The Sailor’s Mandala: A Life Discovery Framework — 5 min read — Jan 4, 2022
• The Notion of Thematic Spaces — 11 min read — Jan 5, 2022
• Youth Development as Drama-fit — 6 min read — Jan 8, 2022
• Thematic Space: Flow, Film, and Floor Plan — 11 min read — Jan 11, 2022
• Thematic Space: Project as Story — 15 min read — Jan 12, 2022
• Thematic Space: A “Strategy-as-Curation” Weekend — 19 min read — Jan 25, 2022
• Mapping Thematic Space: The “Strategy” thematic space — 22 min read — Feb 3, 2022
• The Life Discovery Toolkit (v1) — 14 min read — Feb 7, 2022
• Life Discovery: The Life-as-Project Approach — 9 min read — Feb 13, 2022
• The Life Discovery Canvas (v1.0) — Part 1: Theoretical Background — 15 min read — Feb 27, 2022
• The Life Discovery Canvas (v1.0) — Part 2: Spatial Structure — 15 min read — Feb 28, 2022
• The Life Discovery Canvas (v1.0) — Part 3A: Concepts (THINK and LEARN) — 17 min read — March 1, 2022
• The Life Discovery Canvas (v1.0) — Part 3B: Concepts (SAY and DO) — 11 min read — March 2, 2022
• The Life Discovery Canvas (v1.0) — Part 4: Inspirations — 16 min read — March 4, 2022
• Slow Cognition: A Meta-canvas for Developing Tacit Knowledge — 12 min read — March 11, 2022
• CALL for LIFE: Anticipatory Activity System for Life Transitions — 7 min read — March 22, 2022
• CALL for LIFE: Modeling A Developmental Project — 8 min read — March 28, 2022

5. The Development of the “Anticipatory Activity System” Framework

(17 articles, total 206 min read, 56650 words)

• Mapping Thematic Space #5: The “Relevance” Thematic Space — 18 min read — Feb 15, 2022
• Life Discovery: The “Result — Reward” Gap and Achievement — 11 min read — Feb 18, 2022
• Life Discovery: The “Present — Future” Fit and The ECHO Way — 21 min read — Feb 20, 2022
• Life Discovery: The “Object — Objective” Gap and Attachment — 17 min read — Feb 22, 2022
• Life Discovery: The “Means-End” Spectrum and Becoming — 15 min read — Feb 23, 2022
• Life Discovery: The “Problem — Solution” Challenge and Response — 17 min read — Feb 24, 2022
• Life Discovery: The “Experience — Theme” Ladder and Meaning — 16 min read — Feb 25, 2022
• CALL for LIFE: Anticipatory Activity System for Life Transitions — 7 min read — March 22, 2022
• CALL for LIFE: Modeling A Developmental Project — 8 min read — March 28, 2022
• CALL for LIFE: Oliver Ding @ 2021 and Second-order Activity — 13 min read — April 11, 2022
• Life Discovery: The “Tacit” Type of Second-order Activity — 8 min read — May 5, 2022
• Life Discovery: The Unfoldness of Activity — 9 min read — May 10, 2022
• Life Discovery: The AAS Framework — 9 min read — May 20, 2022
• Life Discovery: The Predictive Model and Anticipatory Activity System — 8 min read — May 30, 2022
• The Slow Cognition Project (Phase II): Activity Analysis for Creative Work Study — 17 min read — May 31, 2022
• The Knowledge Engagement Program (alpha) — 2 min read — June 13, 2022
• #TalkThree 13: How to Use the concept of “Self-reference”? — 10 min read — July 3, 2022

6. The Development of “Significant Insights Analysis”

(8 articles, total 81 min read, 22275 words)

• Knowledge Discovery: The “Perspectives — Views” Mapping — 12 min read — April 10, 2022
• Life Discovery: Twelve Significant Insights from Four Months — 31 min read — April 25, 2022
• Life Discovery: “Points of Observation” and “Significant Insights” — 8 min read — April 27, 2022
• Life Discovery: Significant Insights Analysis — 6 min read — April 29, 2022
• Slow Cognition: It takes a village to raise a creative mind — 11 min read — May 24, 2022
• Slow Cognition: The Network Effect of Discovery (Draft) — 4 min read — May 25, 2022
• Slow Cognition: This is just an accident — 9 min read — May 26, 2022
• The Significant Insights Analysis Project @ Coda

7. The Biography

(37 articles, total 432 min read, 118800 words)

• Meet with Oliver Ding: 1 Mission, 4 Theories, and 12 Possible Books — 16 min read — May 23, 2022
• Frame Analysis in Context — 27 min read — July 21, 2020
• D as Diagramming: Challenge as Opportunity — 10 min read — Oct 6, 2021
• D as Diagramming: From Sandwich to Containers — 12 min read — Oct 7, 2021
• Personal Innovation as Career-fit — 22 min read — May 25, 2021
• Developmental Project Canvas — 6 min read — June 9, 2021
• Thematic Space: The Art of Continuous Discovery — 18 min read — Jan 17, 2022
• Thematic Space: A “Strategy-as-Curation” Weekend — 19 min read — Jan 25, 2022
• Life Discovery: The “Means — End” Spectrum and Becoming — 15 min read — Feb 23, 2022
• The Born of Optimal Context Canvas — 12 min read — March 5, 2022
• Lifesystem: Design for A Meaningful Journey — 10 min read — March 8, 2022
• CALL for LIFE: Oliver Ding @ 2021 and Second-order Activity — 13 min read — April 11, 2022
• Oliver Ding: The Activity U Project (2020–2022) @ Milanote
• [CALL for Life] A1: Life Aspiration Orientation @ Linkedin
• A1 — Personal Innovation as Career-fit — 22 min read — May 25, 2021
• [CALL for Life] A2: Life Process Awareness @ Linkedin
• A2 — Thematic Space: The Art of Continuous Discovery — 18 min read — Jan 17, 2022
• A2 — [Activity Analysis] The Activity Analysis Center
• A2 — Life Discovery: The “Means — End” Spectrum and Becoming — 15 min read — Feb 23, 2022
• A2 — The Born of Optimal Context Canvas — 12 min read — March 5, 2022
• A3 — Life Achievement Reflection @ Linkedin
• [CALL for Life] B1: Life Project Inspiration
• B1 — Possible Practices: Attach, Detach, and Opportunities — 16 min read — Sept 27, 2022
• [CALL for Life] B2: Life Project Engagement @ Linkedin
• B2 — Developmental Project Canvas — 6 min read — June 9, 2021
• [CALL for Life] B3: Life Enterprise Mapping @ Linkedin
• B3 — Life Discovery: Mapping Networks of Enterprise — 9 min read — Feb 14, 2022
• [CALL for Life] C1: Lifezone Perspective @ Linkedin
• C1 — D as Diagramming: The iART Framework — 12 min read — August 21, 2021
• C1 — Relevance Theory — 25 min read — Nov 19, 2021
• C1 — Mapping Thematic Space #5: The “Relevance” Thematic Space — 18 min read — Feb 15, 2022
• [CALL for Life] C2: Lifesystem Perspective @ Linkedin
• C2 — Lifesystem: Modeling Ice Skating and Other Social Practices — 28 min read — Sept 30, 2021
• C2 — Ecological Practice Design: The Lifesystem Approach to Everyday Life Innovation (Book) — 14 min read — May 17, 2022
• [CALL for Life] C3: Lifescale Perspective @ Linkedin
• C3 — Activity U (VIIII): Project-oriented Activity Theory — 50 min read — Jan 3, 2021
• C3 — The Action After Talk Project — 7 min read — April 10, 2020

8. The Board

• The AAS Board — Homepage (Public, v1, March 22, 2022)
• The AAS Board — Step 1 — Aspiration
• The AAS Board — Step 2 — Awareness
• The AAS Board — Step 3 — Achievement
• The AAS Board — Step 4 — Design
• The AAS Board — Step 5 — Deployment
• The AAS Board — Step 6 — Delivery
• The AAS Board — Step 7 — Modeling
• The AAS Board — Step 8 — Storytelling
• Life Discovery Board (Pubic, v2, June 29, 2022)

9. The Shaper & Supporter Lab (SSL) Program

(5 articles, total 47 min read, 12925 words)

• D as Diagramming: The iART Framework — 12 min read — August 21, 2021
• The Sailor’s Mandala: A Life Discovery Framework — 5 min read — Jan 4, 2022
• Life Discovery: The “Means-End” Spectrum and Becoming — 15 min read — Feb 23, 2022
• CALL for LIFE: Anticipatory Activity System for Life Transitions — 7 min read — March 22, 2022
• CALL for LIFE: Modeling A Developmental Project — 8 min read — March 28, 2022

10. The Complexity of “Project Network”

(15 articles, total 168 min read, 46200 words)

• Life Strategy: Moving between Thematic Spaces — 15 min read — July 7, 2022
• What’s “Thematic Space”? — 11 min read — July 6, 2022
• The Landscape of Project Network — April 14, 2022
• Life Discovery: The “Means-End” Spectrum and Becoming — 15 min read — Feb 23, 2022
• CALL: How to Grow A Knowledge Enterprise — 16 min read — May 6, 2022
• Platform Genidentity: The Movements of Unfolding Uniqueness — 18 min read — May 29, 2022
• The Slow Cognition Project (Phase II): Activity Analysis for Creative Work Study — 17 min read — May 31, 2022
• CALL: The Launch Day of Curativity Center — 7 min read — June 2, 2022
• #TalkThree 04: How Does Collective Learning Work? — 6 min read — June 7, 2022
• D as Diagramming: Challenge as Opportunity — 10 min read — Oct 6, 2021
• Life Discovery: The “Experience — Theme” Ladder and Meaning — 16 min read — Feb 25, 2022
• Life Discovery: Mapping Networks of Enterprise — 9 min read — Feb 14, 2022
• D as Diagramming: The Opportunity Formula — 9 min read — Oct 5, 2021
• The Knowledge Curation Toolkit #3: Hamburger for Contextural Curation — 16 min read — June 28, 2022
• Eight types of structures of context for Attachance — 3 min read — April 19, 2020

I am also working on building a new website for the Platform Ecology project. You can save the following links:

• PlatformEcology.org
• Twitter: @PlatformEcology
• Linkedin: @PlatformEcology

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