Strategy as Curation | Epilogue: The Meaning of the Social World and Its Consequences
The History {Life[Self(Body)])} framework (v2.0, 2024).
Oliver Ding
Founder of CALL (Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.
Lake 42: The Great Confluence (Book, v1, 2026)
As we reflected on the past year, I revisited my long journey of writing and curating more than 42 possible books — unpublished drafts — between 2019 and 2025.
The Advanced Life Strategy Toolkit (v2, Dec 2024)
A Knowledge Enterprise about Strategic Life
Strategy as Curation (book, v1, 2024)
The Advanced Life Strategy Toolkit (v2, 2024)
Homecoming | Chapter 2: The World of Activity Model
A brief introduction to the World of Activity approach
Lake 42 | Chapter Twelve: Aristotle, Dragon, and Pearl
This is the Chapter 12 of Lake 42: The Great Confluence.
[Creative Note] Self-referential Activity: a Typology, a Situational Model, and an Operational Principle
One year past, I now revisit these ideas and detach them from the Ap-Re-Co project, attaching them instead to the “Self-referential Activity” knowledge system. The text below is the original text. I do not modify it. It is the beginning of a new Revisiting-and-Rebuilding project.
Lake 42 | Chapter Nine: Setting the Enterprise
Setting the enterprise is simultaneously:
An ending: the completion of the Creative Life Theory
A revealing: the individual — collective dialogue
A beginning: the ACS journey and the SDP journey
Lake 42 | Epilogue: Cognitive Hydrology
The water system was my first meta-framework. I just didn’t know it yet.
Epilogue: A New Member of the Cognitive Hydrology Series
This collection covers two weeks. It is the shortest scale in the series, and it shows the rhythm of a project that is compressed into a few days of intense work and can still be read in its own right. With it the series covers a range of time scales from two weeks to forty years.