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Launch of the new SOAS-ACE How To guide: Navigating the political economy of corruption, Thursday 15 May 1pm UK time (online) stream.syscoi.com/2025/05/09/l...

The case for Total Place 2.0 | Institute for Government www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

Illuminate Systems Change Learning and Evaluation Project stream.syscoi.com/2025/05/09/i...

The Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium stream.syscoi.com/2025/05/09/t...

In the Network of the Conclave (2025) – network science (partly) correctly predicted the new Pope stream.syscoi.com/2025/05/09/i...

Ep 3 of 'rooted in light': FROM A DARK NIGHT OF THE BODY TO LIVING FOR PLEASURE, which I got from my subscription to 'Find the Outside' www.tuesdayrivera.com/podcast.html Reflections to come from me on the value of defining and legibilising your values, and the risks, and the gaps that leaves...

Marshall Ganz is an absolute giant in the field of community organising and social movement building. His work has great resonance with #DoWith both as a grassroots movement for change buff.ly/TTP97FF

Systems Thinking – Creating the conditions for change: a participatory cybernetic framework – free, in person Hull UK or online, 26 September 2025 12:30pm UK time stream.syscoi.com/2025/05/09/s...

After writing 464 'intentional' LinkedIn posts, I’m amused and perplexed by what lands and what languishes. bit.ly/4mnv8rM What’s an idea or piece you championed that was overlooked, and do you still believe in it?

People Power Change with Professor Marshall Ganz (discussion & book launch). The King's Fund. 12 May. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/people-pow...

If software development estimates has ever played a role in your life, this is really very interesting. It involves actual data, which is unusual, because the last thing people want to do when they miss a deadline is spend time rigorously looking at why.

Black Feminist Roots of a Theory of Transformation changeelemental.org/resources/ma...

The Governor and the Maximizer fluidity.substack.com/p/the-govern...

This is very interesting and important for people planning any projects.

Excellent blog post about estimating task time! Also feeling weirdly self-satisfied at the mathematical justification of my personal rules, (team member/dev estimate times 2 for my own planning, and times 5-10 with external stakeholders depending on the stakes/certainty needed.)

How to estimate your time to complete a task. See blog post 👇 For research papers, I was trained to think about my time estimate times 3, especially if the paper includes co-authors.

If your council is in the iNetwork, book here to come and see me talk about 'seven ways to save and improve' in early July! Making Savings in the Public Sector bit.ly/43hePoJ

Centre for Systems Studies Annual Mike Jackson Lecture with guest speaker Professor John Seddon 2025 stream.syscoi.com/2025/05/07/c...

"That means the developer’s estimate, while far from perfect, is also far from meaningless: it’s the scale parameter of some distribution." bit.ly/44ZdX9u bit.ly/3Z8F7XH

Centre for Systems Studies Annual Mike Jackson Lecture with guest speaker Professor John Seddon 2025 stream.syscoi.com/2025/05/07/c...

Complex Anarchism Symposium, 19-23 May 2025 in Brussels clea.research.vub.be/complex-anar...

> looking for a new leftist movement > ask the left populist receptionist if their leftist movement is based or tankie > she doesn't understand > pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is based and what is tankie > she laughs and says "It's a good leftist movement, sir" > join > it's Tankie

Symmetric, orderly, wrong

Joanna Boehnert – “Gregory Bateson’s Cosmos” an interactive graphic mapDrawn and art directed by Dulmini Perera. stream.syscoi.com/2025/05/07/j...

Patterns vol 2, December 2024 stream.syscoi.com/2025/05/07/p...

The Development and Initial Validation of the Paradigm of Systems Thinking – Randle and Stroink (2018) stream.syscoi.com/2025/05/07/t...

SCiO UK Virtual Open Meeting – Monday 19 May 2025, 18:30–21:00 (GMT+1) Steve Hales – Viable Service Management: Operations, Tim Manning – Practical Application of Systems Thinking to Enterprise Design stream.syscoi.com/2025/05/07/s...

If you want to switch an old BT phone line to keep it (forwarded to mobile etc, without any fixed line) after the 2027 shutoff date - or if you are moving houre - try voipfone.co.uk (not sponsored) - I just set it up fairly easily, fingers crossed.

Superabundance is Coming – but Only if Humanity Commits to Protecting the Planet – Ahmend (2024) stream.syscoi.com/2025/05/07/s...

"Interesting ideas often arise when they contradict widely held beliefs, prompting individuals to reassess their understanding of the world" No Stupid Questions - penultimate episode freakonomics.com/podcast/what...

Do systems exist?: A conversation (book, free online pdf) – Walls, Flach, illustrated Voorhorst (2025) stream.syscoi.com/2025/05/06/d...

Do systems exist?: A conversation (book, free online pdf) – Walls, Flach, illustrated Voorhorst (2025) stream.syscoi.com/2025/05/06/d...

Metaphorum Conference 2025 – Humans at risk? Manchester UK July 3-5, 2025 stream.syscoi.com/2025/05/06/m...

Systems Change Alliance systemschangealliance.org#elementor-ac...

You can't... *schedule* international payments to Dutch banks... unless the bank is *open*?!

‘This week in systemic design’ – newsletter fro the Systemic Design Hub stream.syscoi.com/2025/05/06/t...

Cybernetics Live on management cybernetics with Carola Ritzinger-Roll, Michael Frahm & Matvei Tobman – Cybernetics Society (YouTube_ stream.syscoi.com/2025/05/06/c...

Strong Towns podcast – America Needs a New Housing Bargain. Here’s Why. stream.syscoi.com/2025/05/06/s...

Massive NHS reorganisation, with ‘devolution’ and local government reform – and more to come. It's like crossing the straits with the ice floes both shifting and melting underfoot. www.linkedin.com/posts/antler... What's your advice for people trying to deal with this overwhelming #complexity?

SCiO Ireland and Eurofound, the EU Agency for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions – workshop 8 May 2025 on the critical challenge of the Green Just Transition, Dublin, Ireland stream.syscoi.com/2025/05/05/s...

me on the IT helpdesk: please describe exactly the pertinent feature and context of your problem without including any irrelevant information

Casey Commission reforms doomed to fail, unless Government measures true cost of inaction on social care, say MPs - Committees - UK Parliament committees.parliament.uk/committee/81...

The ancient psychedelics myth: ‘People tell tourists the stories they think are interesting for them’ www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Last government cut payments for those looking for work, which created an incentive to get placed in the "no sanctions" group. So then this government cuts funding for that group to try and reduce the incentive.

The paradox of radicalism - REFORM reform.uk/comment/the-...

Using the competitive flexible procedure for innovation: examples and advice from innovation practitioners. PUBLIC. view.publitas.com/public-1/usi...

The new Procurement Act: Unlocking the Art of the Possible. E3M. www.linkedin.com/posts/e3m-sb...