Transduction - leading transformation - Issue #37

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Brilliant stuff from John in sharing and building on great, deep insights from Barry Oshry. And something to celebrate that Barry is now 90, something like 60 years into his career of deep theoretical insights into the human condition - and, while latterly retired from ‘work’ - he still popped up to present at The Stoa recently!

John is running one of the brilliant simulations that give you the real lived experience of this on 31 March & 7 April - book here: https://bit.ly/3AmhkGr

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A blast from the past…

The SW2020-21 Covid-19 Magazine was a free online publication about social care released during the first UK lockdown in 2020. 

Five editions were published between the 9 April and 14 July 2020. There was also a special edition issue, linked to the calling of a Review of the English children’s social care system, published on 28 April 2021. All six issues are available here.

The person whose understanding of the disease matters most is really the patient.

So why do we write clinic letters to the GP?

I’ve started writing clinic letters directly to my patients, and copying the GP in.

You’d be amazed at the positive response I’ve had from this.

In recent days I’ve joined and quietly left great sessions on public service leadership and local government/devolution/levelling up.

It might be just me being jaded.. but don’t we know what needs to change - and the barriers?

seanna davidson on Twitter: “just started a collection of First Nations people sharing their ‘thinking in systems’ and thought others might be interested. https://bit.ly/3ujBn7i

This is amazing - context recognition and context sensitive behaviour in a mammalian brain.

The Frame Problem First published Mon Feb 23, 2004; substantive revision Mon Feb 8, 2016 To most AI researchers, the frame problem is the challenge of representing the effects of action in logic without having to represent explicitly a large number of intuitively obvious non-effects.

Systems Thinking Ontario - 2022-02-21 022-02-21 February 21 (the third Monday of the month, dodging Valentine’s Day, to run into Family Day!) is the 97th meeting for Systems Thinking Ontario. The registration is at https://double-binds.eventbrite.ca . Schizophrenia, Alcoholism, Double Binds: From Practice to System Theory Is there a pattern where you see a system is…

Fruits of a ‘systems thinking’ google alert: Experts: Congress must treat poor nutrition, climate change, and biodiversity loss as interconnected

Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays The empty brain Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

The unlikely encounter between von Foerster and Snowden: When second-order cybernetics sheds light on societal impacts of Big Data David Chavalarias First Published January 6, 2016 Research Article https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715621086 Abstract Although information and […]

In the future, it’s likely that the average person will not work for a company. Instead, people will earn income in non-traditional ways by taking actions such as playing games, learning new skills, creating art, or curating content. This kind of shift in how we work is not unusual or unexpected — the idea that most people would be employed by large corporations would have seemed crazy to someone in the year 1800.

Interesting to compare this to the concept of “Cinderella services” - parts of delivery in organisations that no fast-track manager wants to run because no-one gets promoted for doing it well.

Same thing for some ministerial positions where there’s definitely no glory…

There is a fantastic (and long) article called “On Design Thinking” by Maggie Gram. It tells the story of badly-failing design thinking projects, and then explains the origins of modern design…

About to start scribbling a Venn diagram of human-centred design, user experience design, participatory design, patient involvement and allied concepts. Stopping to check before I do, has someone done this already?

When I worked for PwC, we won the contract for the ‘Admin Burdens Reduction Project’, to assess the admin burden of every single piece of (non-tax) UK legislation (Deloitte? KPMG? pr someone else? got the tax stuff). It was based on ‘the successful Netherlands model’.

10 years ago, one of PSTA’s facilitators, Jon Harvey, wrote about the extent to which commissioning to the private sector actually improves public services. How much of this debate is still relevant today? What has changed since?

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A tale of two Brexit facts:

1) Brexit’s wasted enough money to fund 300 years of children’s mental health support

2) the Tesla factory Brexit lost to Berlin will generate in one year for Germany what fishing takes 50 years to generate for the UK

Levelling-up report co-author Andy Haldane says UK should be like Renaissance Florence and effectively argues for #UniversalBasicServices, explaining that it’s not just 1 thing, it is the interaction of social infrastructreS that make a difference.

This is actually painful :-(

Government says move is a ‘Brexit win’ but figures suggest average sum will drop from £220 to about £23.60

I see Jacob Rees Mogg has invited the public to write to him about EU regulations they want scrapped.

In coalition days, I was involved in the public consultation on the Freedoms Bill and the Red Tape Challenge.

I guarantee JRM will emerge with slim pickings. Why?

I’m not sure I have ever seen a department attack a PAC report in this way, especially after a government minister resigned in the House after agreeing with the report.

The collective delusion which is the British Constitution is coming apart.

Once upon a time, I would have been astonished to hear an attorney general utter this kind of constitutionally illiterate populism. Now, it barely touches the sides.

No one in or around SAGE and Nervtag is aware of any scientific advice given to the PM that the requirement to isolate for those infected with Covid19 should be terminated from end of the month. “It’s politics, isn’t it” is a typical reaction

This is a list of the blogposts supporting my presentation to the 12th January Lunar Society meeting on Zoom entitled Food Security: Is the UK already in crisis?

https://t.co/RCxCsflWva

It’s a surprise to many, but internet users in the UK can face fines, community service, and even jail time if convicted of sending “grossly offensive” messages. Here’s how and why an obscure bit of legislation — Section 127 of the 2003 Communications Act — is used to prosecute Brits.

Or how and why China plans to save your “collective soul”

A drone photographer captured the ‘magic’ moment when a humpback whale & dolphin began playing and swimming together off the coast of Oahu.

It feels to me like the bleedover from MS Teams has actually spoiled Zoom! More and more people defaulting to camera and video off, raise hand to ask questions - behaviours I associate strongly with Teams. :-(

I recently learned something mindblowing about the geological history of the Mediterranean Sea, and I just can’t get it out of my head.

Now I’m going to make it your problem too. Sorry.

Hang onto your hat. This is wild.

Paisley: The story of a classic bohemian print: https://t.co/2NcPiOTTOx Paisley (design) - Wikipedia https://t.co/ILlrLEVRqa… https://t.co/6blKuR9BvR

Today, Her Maj tweeted this lovely picture, gor bless er, etc. You might think that the contents of the red box would be official business. And you’d be right. 1/6

Andrew Dansby, Staff writer

Steve’s emails would wash in like a response to a message in a bottle, saying, “You’re not alone.”

I recently saw this GDC talk by Leighton Gray, which was shared with some approval in a Discord server I’m a member of. The talk is ostensibly about game design and marketing, but it also doubles as a sort of metamodernism 101 and is largely concerned with the topic of sincere-irony. What’s interesting for me is the way it takes up this topic: it is neither an attempt at detached cultural analysis, nor does it present a world-historical vision—it is focused rather on the far more nuts and bolts realm of product design. The fundamental question it is addresses is what can be done with sincere-irony, on the small and personal scales, and in this respect it is an extremely instructive example of how this is supposed to work in practice.

- PMS Hacker

- Dexter Fletcher

- Dido

- The King of Serbia

- Andrew Weatherall

- Archbishop Desmond Tutu

- Sheridan Westlake

- Arthur Scargill

- Andy Swiss

- Baron Adonis

- Finlay Quaye

- Tony Benn

- Jarvis Cocker

- Pooka

- Boris Johnson

Freud, Rilke and Transience | European Journal of Psychoanalysis https://bit.ly/3J0nxL9 pdf - Freud on transcience https://bit.ly/3J2kgLn

Alder (A99) swims with a dead fish balanced on his head. Back in 1987, a K Pod orca started swimming everywhere with a dead salmon carefully balanced on the top of her head, and it soon became a popular Southern Resident fad as other orcas quickly started mimicking her behavior. https://pic.twitter.com/K5UsX3sOsO