After the disappointing message that we could not develop a new educational program due to budget cuts, I needed to find another task. 🔍
Yesterday, I asked my manager for an extra period of unpaid leave (1 day a week, a year long) for continuing my studies on complex systems, relating them to my research on technology for nurses in the hospital (before long covid paused my research), writing my findings. ✍🏼
Started today with 3 chapters in Diversity and Complexity by Scott E. Page. I love his materials on #ComplexSystems, and this work is also really accessible.
Also bought the paper version of The Unaccountability Machine. I already have the audio book, but I miss the ability to stick labels when I am on my bike at the spots I need to re-listen and use. 😬 Interesting, good for more knowledge on #cybernetics, and fun to listen.
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Yes, I like that "seeking okay-ness" phrase.
I'm currently listening to the #InternationalSystemsThinkingConf and am amazed how often I hear things like "best outcome" expressed, as if there was an omniscient view that we all shared. It seems so foreign to the crux of #SystemsThinking
This interview covers my formative experience during the personal computers and internet revolution in navigating uncharted waters, and unfamiliar, unexplored territories like we are doing again with Artificial Intelligence right now.
Pre-announcing April 30 Dialogic Drinks session I'm leading on "#Yinyang and Daojia into #SystemsThinking through Changes", online 18:30 Singapore, 11:30 London, 6:30am Toronto.
Repeating May 2, 8:00pm ET.
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This #EarthDay2024 I'd like to introduce you a friend of mine. World, please meet "Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World" which will look more like a book & less like a binder in a patch of daffodils when it's released by IslandPress in fall 2024!
For those hungry for #systemsthinking I've done my best to share what I know about that. If you've always been interested in systems but maybe have been put off by lots of math, charts & diagrams you might like that my book is high on systems concepts but low on systems diagrams.
I'm noticing more interest in #systemsthinking. During my interactions with customers, it pops up more frequently. 🎉
However (there is a but), I've learned that there is an essential nuance within the different systems thinking schools. And that difference goes for how the school sees the relationship between the system and the environment.
Web video of slides from "From Unfreezing-Refreezing, to Systems Changes Learning" for Dialogic Drinks of #EQLab represents only 1/5 of the time compared to peer-led discussions. Concise hosting called for brevity, and richer presentations.
Holding back the Sahara: not just transforming the desert, and creating food, but also giving young people the opportunity to build a future in their own country.