systems thinking

Seeing and describing systems in the world.

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  • Winter is coming? Summer forever? Something else entirely?

    I've been thinking alot about our economic system lately. It's not working. It hasn't been working, as evidenced by how much homelessness and food insecurity there has been increasing for so long, increasing suicide rates, and the self-medication of drug and alcohol abuse.

  • Listen

    The world is burning. We can hear the sizzling flames in the expanding targeting by ICE, pops in the darkling gloom that we hope are knots exploding in the heat and not gunshots.

  • Just care

    We won't get a chance to fix systems if we can't touch them.

  • Determinism and shifting taxonomy

    As more companies move to "determined algorithms", we need to talk about deterministic software. It's been around. We have some people enamored with it, some people angry at it, and lots of tangled meanings. That means that we all have to be careful about packing too much meaning into one little word, and assuming that everyone is on the same page.

  • Human information systems

    Everyday information structures that all people navigate.

  • Economic floors and ceilings

    It's useful to think about flowing water as an aspect of flowing economy, but what happens when there's not enough volume to flow in the population volume of the people who need to leverage it to survive?

  • It’s not a doom spiral, it’s a system rebalancing itself

    Understanding social degradation as a system out of balance. Originally published on Medium.