Creating novel future states

Person walking, with the same-grade forward motion is as-is leading to a future. Underneath are two other potential paths: ideation, and building. Both are more complex, have the potential to loop, and ideation is a lead-in to building.
Different paths: moving forward as-is, ideation, and building all converge on a future.

Thinking and talking about a thing is not the same as materializing it

We can change interpretation of history, but not to change what actually happened. It follows us forevermore, impacts our who-ness to greater or lesser degrees, and can become a thing to repeat/avoid/tweak. This is the case whether it was just keeping on, or a future-sensed task.

Similarly, a thing isn’t done until its done. At any point up to completion, it can be swayed by outside factors, reconsideration, and environment.

Our stick figure is on a time horizon of past-present-future. Nodes of completed future-sense tasks and keep-on-keeping-on tasks are scattered over the past. The stick figure now has a perceptive eye and cognitive cloud filled with bubbles of internalized experience. Above the time horizon, the figure is moving with vector force to keep-on-keeping-on tasks nested within registered possibility.

The cognitive cloud has a dashed-line vector aimed below the time horizon to ideation.

Ideation has two vector forces coming out of it: one, simply, down to building. The other is going to the right to interact as a variable complexity with thinking, expressing, and researching; that variable complexity also contributes to building.

Building has one vector force coming out of it, to another variable complexity that includes planning, designing, and deciding. That then shunts into a far-future completed future-sensed tasked nested within registered possibility.

Person walking, with the same-grade forward motion, strewing data in the past that affects cognition while stepping towards the future. As-is is clear, succinct forward motion leading to a future. Underneath are two other potential paths: ideation, and building. Both are more complex, have the potential to loop, and ideation is a lead-in to building. The practices involved in each are different.
Different paths: moving forward as-is, ideation, and building all converge on a future. History and cognition are involved in all of it, with ideation and building requiring subtly different cognitive practices.