#systems-thinking — Public Fediverse posts
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Systems thinking alone won’t save you.
Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AsovO
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Systems thinking alone won’t save you.
Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AsovO
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PRODUCTHEAD: AI usage and the ‘bottleneck’» In complex human systems the constraint is often policy, mindset, or coordination, not a single bottleneck
» Being the “human in the loop” means having genuine authority, time to think, and understanding the bigger picture well enough to question the system
#prodmgmt #AIAgents #collaboration #framework #generativeAI #systemsThinking 📖 Read more: https://imanageproducts.com/producthead-ai-usage-and-the-bottleneck/ -
PRODUCTHEAD: AI usage and the ‘bottleneck’» In complex human systems the constraint is often policy, mindset, or coordination, not a single bottleneck
» Being the “human in the loop” means having genuine authority, time to think, and understanding the bigger picture well enough to question the system
#prodmgmt #AIAgents #collaboration #framework #generativeAI #systemsThinking 📖 Read more: https://imanageproducts.com/producthead-ai-usage-and-the-bottleneck/ -
Be part of the solution: do the work, enjoy the work—share the work.🌱
https://athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/a-scared-species-running-on-ancient#ClimateChange #Species #Evolution #SystemsThinking #MentalHealth
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Be part of the solution: do the work, enjoy the work—share the work.🌱
https://athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/a-scared-species-running-on-ancient#ClimateChange #Species #Evolution #SystemsThinking #MentalHealth
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One person’s solution is another person’s problem.
That’s not a bug. It’s how requirements move through organizations.
Every layer solves a problem and creates a new one for the next layer.
#AI is accelerating this process dramatically.
#AgileCheese embraces it. We don’t optimize solutions. We optimize problem propagation.
The fastest way to solve a problem is to make it somebody else’s problem.
That’s why #agile scales so well.
And that’s where the #cheese comes from. 🧀🔥 #SystemsThinking
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One person’s solution is another person’s problem.
That’s not a bug. It’s how requirements move through organizations.
Every layer solves a problem and creates a new one for the next layer.
#AI is accelerating this process dramatically.
#AgileCheese embraces it. We don’t optimize solutions. We optimize problem propagation.
The fastest way to solve a problem is to make it somebody else’s problem.
That’s why #agile scales so well.
And that’s where the #cheese comes from. 🧀🔥 #SystemsThinking
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Is Conway's Law just a hunch? Or is it a law? Conway didn't include a proof in 1968.
However, decades later, research from the automotive/aerospace industries and the software industry tells a different story.
If organisations are misaligned with the product architecture, they will have quality problems and decision latency.
Part 2 of "Beyond the Shades of Conway's Law" is out now:
Validation: The Research and Reality Check
https://thinkinglabs.io/articles/2026/06/20/beyond-shades-of-conways-law-validation.html
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Is Conway's Law just a hunch? Or is it a law? Conway didn't include a proof in 1968.
However, decades later, research from the automotive/aerospace industries and the software industry tells a different story.
If organisations are misaligned with the product architecture, they will have quality problems and decision latency.
Part 2 of "Beyond the Shades of Conway's Law" is out now:
Validation: The Research and Reality Check
https://thinkinglabs.io/articles/2026/06/20/beyond-shades-of-conways-law-validation.html
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Sometimes good solutions do not work because they are solving the wrong problem. That idea became the starting point for my book, Thirst for Reality. It is a practical nonfiction book about seeing problems more clearly, finding stronger solutions, working with contradictions and systems, and testing ideas against reality. The book is still in progress. It will have 12 chapters, and the first 8 are already available on Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/thirst-for-reality #SystemsThinking #ProblemSolving #DecisionMaking #AI -
📖 New Atlas–Rosetta publication:
Paper 0B — The Curiosity Layer
The Question That Wouldn't Go AwayBefore Atlas. Before Rosetta. Before frameworks, papers, or formal models.
Just a recurring question that followed me for more than 30 years:
Why do some mathematical structures seem familiar across very different disciplines?
This essay explores the curiosity that ultimately led to Atlas–Rosetta and how modern AI transformed a long-standing question into something that could finally be investigated.
#AtlasRosetta #Science #Curiosity #Research #Interdisciplinary #SystemsThinking #AI #Chemistry #MaterialsScience
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📖 New Atlas–Rosetta publication:
Paper 0B — The Curiosity Layer
The Question That Wouldn't Go AwayBefore Atlas. Before Rosetta. Before frameworks, papers, or formal models.
Just a recurring question that followed me for more than 30 years:
Why do some mathematical structures seem familiar across very different disciplines?
This essay explores the curiosity that ultimately led to Atlas–Rosetta and how modern AI transformed a long-standing question into something that could finally be investigated.
#AtlasRosetta #Science #Curiosity #Research #Interdisciplinary #SystemsThinking #AI #Chemistry #MaterialsScience
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New article published:
Atlas–Rosetta: How a Research Framework Actually Begins
Not a theory paper.
Not a framework paper.
A history paper.
How three decades of scientific curiosity, modern AI, and a determination not to fool myself gradually became the Atlas–Rosetta research framework.
🌳📖☕
https://substack.com/@hybridmind42/note/p-202701271?r=75c2ac
#AtlasRosetta #ScientificMethod #Research #SystemsThinking #InterdisciplinaryScience #KnowledgeMapping #DimensionalAnalysis #Curiosity
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New article published:
Atlas–Rosetta: How a Research Framework Actually Begins
Not a theory paper.
Not a framework paper.
A history paper.
How three decades of scientific curiosity, modern AI, and a determination not to fool myself gradually became the Atlas–Rosetta research framework.
🌳📖☕
https://substack.com/@hybridmind42/note/p-202701271?r=75c2ac
#AtlasRosetta #ScientificMethod #Research #SystemsThinking #InterdisciplinaryScience #KnowledgeMapping #DimensionalAnalysis #Curiosity
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The Second Thinking Space
This article explains why I use artificial intelligence not as a substitute for thinking, but as a second thinking space. Based on the idea that complex structures are rarely understood from within a single perspective, AI serves as a means of exploration, pattern recognition, intellectual challenge, and perspective expansion. The goal is not automation, but deeper insight into the hidden structures that shape decisions, organisations, and human behaviour.https://ifabsthill.com/2026/06/19/the-second-thinking-space/
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A reflection on grief, rage, self-reliance, and why communities must move beyond temporary patches toward long-term cultural resilience. https://hackernoon.com/the-case-for-black-and-asian-solidarity #systemsthinking
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A reflection on grief, rage, self-reliance, and why communities must move beyond temporary patches toward long-term cultural resilience. https://hackernoon.com/the-case-for-black-and-asian-solidarity #systemsthinking
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In addition to identifying the issues, How Resilient is Cambridge also identified a dozen strategies that will lead us to solutions.
https://www.resilienceweb.org.uk/news/HRC_report_launch
#resilience #CommunityPower #SystemsThinking #community #ClimateCrisis
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How Resilient is Cambridge wrapped up yesterday. (Actually, three weeks ago. It was a lot, I've been recovering from it.)
We wrote a report summarising all our findings. It came out pretty well and I encourage you to check it out, but I'll summarise the take aways here.
https://www.resilienceweb.org.uk/news/HRC_report_launch
#resilience #CommunityPower #SystemsThinking #community #ClimateCrisis
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Today it was announced that the Major Oak has died.
The tree was already hollow when I walked through it as a child in the 1970s.
Perhaps we are asking the wrong question.
Not "What killed the Major Oak?"
But:
"How did it continue adapting for nearly a thousand years?"
A Boundary Dynamics analysis of persistence, resilience, and the limits of adaptation.
#HybridMind42 #MajorOak #SherwoodForest #Resilience #SystemsThinking
https://substack.com/@hybridmind42/note/p-202551189?r=75c2ac
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Today it was announced that the Major Oak has died.
The tree was already hollow when I walked through it as a child in the 1970s.
Perhaps we are asking the wrong question.
Not "What killed the Major Oak?"
But:
"How did it continue adapting for nearly a thousand years?"
A Boundary Dynamics analysis of persistence, resilience, and the limits of adaptation.
#HybridMind42 #MajorOak #SherwoodForest #Resilience #SystemsThinking
https://substack.com/@hybridmind42/note/p-202551189?r=75c2ac
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*The purpose of a system is what it does*
Your government is a system. What does it do?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@art3starr/116757210750373518
You should read this! And the paper linked from the article! For the content, but also for the meta-level thoughts:
“There is a way in which metaphors create a thinking scaffold that constrains the ways in which we can see. With a metaphor like “debt” that is a noun, we automatically focus on the objects and try to make sense of our world through the metaphor. […] The metaphor creates a nounification of our world as a way of seeing.
What we miss when we see through a lens made of nouns, are the processes, the verbs, what is happening over time, and more precisely, what is going wrong when the system is moving.”
#softwarearchitecture #systemsthinking #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@art3starr/116757210750373518
You should read this! And the paper linked from the article! For the content, but also for the meta-level thoughts:
“There is a way in which metaphors create a thinking scaffold that constrains the ways in which we can see. With a metaphor like “debt” that is a noun, we automatically focus on the objects and try to make sense of our world through the metaphor. […] The metaphor creates a nounification of our world as a way of seeing.
What we miss when we see through a lens made of nouns, are the processes, the verbs, what is happening over time, and more precisely, what is going wrong when the system is moving.”
#softwarearchitecture #systemsthinking #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering
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When perception, interpretation, and action are congruent across layers, the system stabilizes. This stability is subjectively experienced as peace, clarity, and groundedness. 🌱
#reality #humanity #coherence #systemsthinking #mentalhealth
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When perception, interpretation, and action are congruent across layers, the system stabilizes. This stability is subjectively experienced as peace, clarity, and groundedness. 🌱
#reality #humanity #coherence #systemsthinking #mentalhealth
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Stop Being Naive. Start Being Strategic.
Outrage without strategy is just noise. Here is how we build something the machine cannot absorb. One Nation Is The Wrong Answer To The Right Question.
By @suebarrett
https://suebarrett.substack.com/p/stop-being-naive-start-being-strategic
Movements like OneNation (or any long-term political vision) can’t survive on slogans alone. They need strategic depth and commitment to impact over short-term optics. Of course, they don't have anything like this. It's all about deceive, delay & derail.
If you’re tired of half-baked solutions and want a longer-term view, this article is a wake-up call.
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Neighbouring trees draw water through different roots and still feed the same forest, leaving the patient observer with fewer certainties and a much larger world to inhabit.
This reflection:
https://medium.com/@emotusoperandi/lifeboats-the-backstory-c793bc4c501d#LifeboatAcademy #RobHopkins #LivingSystems #CommunityResilience #SystemsThinking
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Neighbouring trees draw water through different roots and still feed the same forest, leaving the patient observer with fewer certainties and a much larger world to inhabit.
This reflection:
https://medium.com/@emotusoperandi/lifeboats-the-backstory-c793bc4c501d#LifeboatAcademy #RobHopkins #LivingSystems #CommunityResilience #SystemsThinking
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Pretty interesting watch. It’s a great reminder why redundant systems matter—you never know when the infrastructure you rely on will suddenly fail. The way GPS is explained here really drives that home. I need to watch more from this channel.
https://youtu.be/tz23G_UXCGA?is=yZ1bEL-lQpdSWm_J
#Engineering #Infrastructure #Reliability #SystemsThinking #Technology
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Pretty interesting watch. It’s a great reminder why redundant systems matter—you never know when the infrastructure you rely on will suddenly fail. The way GPS is explained here really drives that home. I need to watch more from this channel.
https://youtu.be/tz23G_UXCGA?is=yZ1bEL-lQpdSWm_J
#Engineering #Infrastructure #Reliability #SystemsThinking #Technology
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You can't process your way to efficiency. You have to engineer it.
Engineer efficiency: https://massaxis.com
#SalesOperations #ProcessOptimization #SystemsThinking #ScalableSolutions #EfficiencyEngineering #SmartSystems #LessProcess MoreResults #ScaleIntelligently #OperationalExcellence #SystemsOverProcess -
Most people saying "I want to build an agent" don't want an agent. They want orchestration with a smart step: decompose the job, run steps in order, check state, handle exceptions, produce an audit trail.
We solved that twenty years ago. The mainframes were doing it before that.
New Working Note:#AIAgents #Orchestration #LLM #WorkingNotes #SystemsThinking
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Most people saying "I want to build an agent" don't want an agent. They want orchestration with a smart step: decompose the job, run steps in order, check state, handle exceptions, produce an audit trail.
We solved that twenty years ago. The mainframes were doing it before that.
New Working Note:#AIAgents #Orchestration #LLM #WorkingNotes #SystemsThinking
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Most leaders treat AI data risk as a security problem. A thing to block. I think that's backwards. The data doesn't leak. It walks out the front door, authorized, pasted in by people who believe they're being productive. The control that holds isn't a tool. It's a leader who asked the questions.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sargentjamesa/p/the-risk-is-not-a-breach-its-adoption?r=7o0dk0
#AI #Leadership #DataSovereignty #InfoSec #SystemsThinking #DataGovernance
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Strategic storytelling often requires a Frame to make complex ideas feel personal.
'The Last Supper Before the Storm' is a narrative case study on building trust through shared memory.
The Frame Tale Plot Pattern is a great structure for context building.
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Organisational Dysfunction of the Day
Doing the wrong thing right
Context: The organisation is focused on improvement. There are efficiency drives, process optimisations, restructuring programmes, and culture initiatives. Each quarter brings a new priority. The internal machinery is constantly being tuned. Meanwhile, the environment is changing. A new technology is reshaping customer expectations. A regulatory shift is coming. A competitor is doing something nobody has quite figured out yet. The people closest to these signals mention them in meetings, raise them in retrospectives, and flag them in Slack. The organisation processes them slowly, if at all. The improvement programmes continue. The internal machinery gets more refined. The gap between the organisation and its environment quietly widens.
OST explains: Open systems theory makes a distinction that most management frameworks miss. The health of a system depends not only on its internal functioning but on the quality of its relationship with its environment. An organisation can be internally coherent, well-managed, and efficiently run while simultaneously drifting away from the environment it depends on. Emery and Trist's turbulent fields insight is relevant here: in a Type IV environment, the environment itself is in motion. An organisation that looks inward while the field moves becomes misaligned, not through any internal failure but simply through the passage of time. DP1 (bureaucracy) accelerates this, concentrating perception and decision-making at the top, seeing the environment through a narrow aperture. DP2 distributes that perceptual capacity across the whole system. Every group at the boundary imports a signal. All hands on deck. The organisation stays coupled to its environment not through a strategy process but through its structure. Peter Drucker distinguished between efficiency and effectiveness: there is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Most improvement programmes are efficiency projects. OST asks the effectiveness question first. You cannot tune your way into relevance. The environment does not wait.
#OpenSystemsTheory #SocioTechnical #OrgDesign #SystemsThinking
