I’m on leave (umm… ‘working holiday’) - so a special ‘randomised’ version this week. Your version is unique to you, randomly generated like the Subbuteo Rugby Scrum simulator (pictured) - so assume that all serendipities are perfectly arranged by the universe for you :-)
The Subbuteo Scrum Simulator - the ball goes in, but where will it come out?
What questions do you have about systems thinking | complexity | cybernetics? Who would you like to ask about finding the true joy in work? Way back in a different world, before the pandemic and in the first UK lockdown, I interviewed a bunch of wonderful, insightful, and patient people. For two connected podcasts: -> … Continue reading Announcing two ‘new’ podcasts… coming soon! (With bonus puppy pics) →
Folk theorem (game theory) In game theory, folk theorems are a class of theorems describing an abundance of Nash equilibrium payoff profiles in repeated games (Friedman 1971).[1] The original Folk Theorem concerned the payoffs of all the Nash equilibria of an infinitely repeated game. This result was called the Folk Theorem because it was widely […]
At Any Given Moment in a Process…we have a certain partially evolved state of a structure. This state is described by the wholeness: the system of centers, and their relative nesting and degrees of life.Dorian Taylor At Any Given Moment in a Process – by Dorian Taylor
The Government has announced that five local authorities in England will implement a new adult social care charging reform system which caps the cost of care.
Originally posted on Complexity Digest: // The idea of creating artifacts that evolve by themselves has been at the heart of the Artificial Life research, dating back to the early motives of John von Neumann’s monumental work on self-reproducing automata in the 1940’s. This vein of research is unique and fundamentally different from other more…
The New Cybernetics: Systems Thinking for the 21st CenturyOur director Genevieve Bell spoke with the Coller Venture Review about the new cybernetics.28 Mar 2022 The New Cybernetics: Systems Thinking for the 21st Century | ANU School of Cybernetics
Disruptions, systems and individual agents—Exploring the intersectionsJonathon Mackay,Matthew Pepper,Albert MunozFirst published: 03 March 2022 Disruptions, systems and individual agents—Exploring the intersections – Mackay – – Systems Research and Behavioral Science – Wiley Online Library
Andrew James Walls Mar 24 Navigating Change: How to Find Ecosystem-Strategy Fit A guide and tools for how to lead your ecosystem’s future. Navigating Change: How to Find Ecosystem-Strategy Fit | by Andrew James Walls | Predict | Mar, 2022 | Medium
RSD11 IN 2022: UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON RSD11 in 2022: University of Brighton From Peter Jones: Possibilities and Practices of Systemic Design Practice Relating Systems Thinking and Design 11th Symposium (Oct 13-16): Call for Papers is open to May 30, 2022. As RSD moves into its second decade, it is possible to question systemic design’s emerging […]
Addressing the youth unemployment challenge in Bhutan through a systemic portfolio based approachMar 18, 2022 Addressing the youth unemployment challenge in Bhutan through a systemic portfolio approach | UNDP in Bhutan
hi so you all know the Stonewall Inn was raided because the NYPD were enforcing new york state’s “you must be wearing at least 3 ‘gender-appropriate’ articles of clothing” law, right?
This is a lie. What a dreadful state our politics is in when Govt. Ministers can lie with impunity. #Brexit was built on lies & it’s shameful that those who conned our country into leaving the #EU are not being held to account.
Quote Tweet Jacob Rees-Mogg @Jacob_Rees_Mogg · Mar 23
The EU would not allow us to do this, another benefit of Brexit. twitter.com/hmtreasury/sta…
Another powerful insight from a public servant today: “The gravity of our organisational processes are very strong. Our everyday processes - briefing Ministers, IDCs etc - are hungry processes that will not stand not being fed. This makes it hard to reimagine government.”
We’ve come a long way since early December, when the Met Police repeatedly declined to even investigate. Today’s 20 fines seriously questions that initial decision. At the time we reported that police may even have been aware of one party.
What are viruses for? What use are they? These are questions that my frustrated grandson asked during the first lockdown in 2020, when he was deprived of friends, school and sports, all because of a virus.
“same thing that’s scrawled across the stars is written under our skin”
New Horizons - David Gray https://bit.ly/3Jz4F6x
I love the lyrics from his album Flesh
https://bit.ly/36f0sH2
I was at Design Council for the start of their Design for the Public Sector programme where different councils came together to test & learn how design could help tackle complex issues, from what…
The starting point for this discussion is that #Brexit has really, as the OBR fiscal outlook made clear this week, really only discernably delvered – to quote Meg Hillier – “increased costs, paperwork and border delays”
In this episode we explore the challenges of consumerism, which threatens to destroy our entire world… Back when I was a kid, way back in the 1950s, the council dustcart would come through our village once each week. It was a small, simple, smartly-painted old truck, much smaller than the lumbering monstrosities of today. Even at that small size, though, it was probably still large enough to serve the entire village all in one go - perhaps a thousand households back then.
I’ve been thinking about this one for awhile and I think it’s both importantly right and importantly wrong
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
@ESYudkowsky
· Oct 5, 2021
Your annual reminder that you don’t need to resolve your issues, you don’t need to deal with your emotional baggage, you don’t need to process your trauma, you don’t need to confront your past, you don’t need to figure yourself out, you can just go ahead and do the thing.
This statement is made with the assumption that there ARE mental representations and in the last 30 years hundreds of serious studies showed that the mind does not work with representations.
Sadly, the representationalist view of the mind is now in symbiosis with #AI.
On this day in 2014, the first same-sex marriages took place following their legalisation in England and Wales. Thank you
@lfeatherstone
and everyone who campaigned for it.
I have been asked very many questions about hybrid work of late, and I have noticed how often the answer to so many of them is the same. How do we maintain organisational culture? How do we support new starters? How best to communicate or collaborate? How can we build teams and relationships, enable wellbeing…
So here’s a (not-very-practical) suggestion: what if we asked those 29,000 policy-making people (and the system of which they are a part) to move away from the notion of “policymaking” towards seeing their role as being to create the conditions which enable people and communities to thrive.
for years my dad has argued that what the world needs is “the travel taco” i.e. a taco with sealed edges to keep all the filling from falling out while you’re on the move. and for years my mom has patiently explained the concept of burritos.
@NuffieldTrust
findings about public satisfaction with the NHS. But the findings about #socialcare are no less remarkable. Only 15% say they are satisfied - the lowest of all services asked about. 50% are dissatisfied. A short thread…
Clean air MUST be like clean water no ifs no buts. People do NOT have a choice about getting clean water in UK. They must get use to clean air. So just like the Victorians & their massive public works in sanitising drinking water so we must embark on sanitising indoor air.
Located in a German region famed for its frugality, Tübingen is known for its fiercely green reputation, where veganism and environmental friendliness are the default setting.
A rare archaeological discovery on the Dominican Republic’s secluded Samaná Peninsula could unlock the mystery behind the Caribbean’s little-known pre-Arawak past.
The doctor calling the ambulance rationalises their actions, ‘I don’t know what will happen to their chest (NB not ‘Albert’, but his chest – a lapse into pathology and medical-speak
Love this illustrated map of existing and emerging design disciplines from Kirsten Moegerlein’s PhD ‘Designing in Transition:
Towards Intimacy in Ecological Uncertainty’
More than 7,000 finance jobs have moved from London to the European Union as a result of Brexit, down 400 from the total anticipated in December, consultants EY said on Tuesday.
The Ministerial Code states that: “Ministers must provide… a full list of all interests which might be thought to give rise to a conflict. The list should also cover interests of the Minister’s spouse or partner.”
Quote Tweet Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford · Mar 31 Rishi Sunak tells @bbclaurak people should not ‘come at’ wife Akshata Murthy over Infosys links to Russia ‘It’s totally fine for people to take shots at me. It’s fair game. 'It’s very upsetting and, I think, wrong, for people to come at my wife’
I was outed at 17. A mom learned that I had a boyfriend & alerted anyone who’d listen. She howled about my “corrupting influence” & insisted that my gayness was contagious.
Every street with a school should be a school street - no access to motor vehicles at pick up/drop off time. This would save children’s lives.
@wandbc
have taken forever to trial this badly in 5 schools. So rebels did it in Putney this morning. Get in touch for help - or to help.
Do any of my followers know where I can find free resources/examples of how to develop a theory of change that acknowledges and highlights systems/complexity whilst being simple and easy to understand? Is it even possible? #EvalTwitter
Buying something from the state for $100 million and selling it back 7 years later for $13 billion. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. The whole business model. That’s how Abramovich, who was once the richest man in the world, got this title.
The second part of the deal was the bribes. Abramovich was one of the key early sponsors of Putin’s Palace. Sergei Kolesnikov, the whistleblower responsible for managing the scheme, said that Abramovich ‘donated’ $203m. Part of it was subsequently spent on building the Palace.
Ok here’s a technical breakdown of why the “
@Dyson
Zone™ Air-Purifying Headphones” aka. the Snot Cannon aka. the Wearable SuperSpreader Event is such a staggeringly bad idea and a significant danger to public health if it is allowed to be sold.
The dignity of this brave statement from Conservative MP Jamie Wallis stands in stark contrast to the Prime Minister’s cheap gag at the same event last night.
British archaeologist Leonard Woolley and his wife Catherine at the moment of the discovery of pottery pipes that were used as a sewage and rainwater network in what is considered the first water drainage system in history before about 4000 BC. Ur (Mesopotamia) in 1930.
Cuts to local government funding in the North since 2010 amount to £413 per person. The 2021 allocation for the North is £32 per person
@IPPRNorth
Drops…oceans…? It’s not all about money. But money is not irrelevant.
Whitehall believes England’s 10,000 parish councils could help level up the country. Critics say there is no panacea for the harm done by austerity measures
This is what some of us in maternity have been fighting to reveal for decades. This isn’t an isolated Trust. This was and is widespread and evident seemingly everywhere in Maternity Services
Brits are a very long way from fully reckoning with how extremely evil our history is. I don’t think my parents’ generation ever will. Simply too much brainwashing to undo.
