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1) watched a really excellent video recording of a Clarendon lecture by Tima Bansal .. can’t wait to see the second! https://www.youtube.com/live/Tqs6oI9GEZ4?si=H0JVmsNIcKJLzU5F
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2) had a nice teams chat with another friend-colleague with whom I had not spoken in several months
3) my family and friends, and my 
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'Network Medicine' is an #OpenAccess, peer-reviewed journal focused on interdisciplinary approaches to exploiting the power of #BigData by applying #NetworkScience and #SystemsThinking to #Medicine. It yields major breakthroughs towards mechanism-based redefinitions of diseases for high-precision #Diagnostics and #Treatments: https://drugrepocentral.scienceopen.com/collection/NetMed
ScienceOpenNetwork Medicine<p><strong><em>Network </em></strong><strong><em>Medicine </em></strong>is an open access, peer-reviewed journal focused on interdisciplinary approaches to exploiting the power of big data by applying network science and systems thinking to medicine. <strong><em>Network</em></strong><strong><em> Medicine</em></strong> yields major breakthroughs towards mechanism-based re-definitions of diseases for high-precision diagnostics and treatments, proof-of-concept trials, confirmatory trials, pharmacoepidemiology.</p><p><strong>e-ISSN:</strong> 2941-251X</p>
If anyone's interested in systems thinking, complexity theory, or any of the myriad related disciplines, I created a Lemmy community to discuss ideas. Come join!
lemmy.worldComplexity and systems thinking - Lemmy.WorldA community for discussing the theory and practice of complexity and systems
thinking, in any domain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinking
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinking]
Anyone use the #Zettelkasten method of note-taking and knowledge management? Stumbled across it and I'm quite curious about it. I read widely across a lot of topics. No longer in grad school but having a way to organize and cross-reference is really appealing.
Zettelkasten MethodIntroduction to the Zettelkasten MethodLearn how the Zettelkasten works as a system, what a Zettel is made of, and how to grow an organic web of knowledge.
John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman, has a little contact form on his website mediated by goddamn Squarespace. But I still used it to write to him to ask, "Don't you think the obvious thing is for the left to unite internationally and leverage mass labor and economic power to insist on the institution of a real Global Surplus Recycling Mechanism at the IMF and World Bank now, like John Keynes originally proposed at Bretton Woods?"
Quickly, and apparently without much thought, he replied that the IMF and World Bank were dictatorial and not worth our focus in confronting the rise of fascism. BUT THE POINT IS THAT WE USE THE ONLY LEVERAGE WE HAVE AS THE POOR AND WORKING CLASS MASSES TO DEMAND A TRANSFORMATION OF THE TOP DICTATORSHIP SO THAT THERE IS NO LONGER A TOP DICTATORSHIP, AND INSTEAD, A FUNCTIONAL, TRANSPARENT, PUBLIC UNION OF EQUALS THANKS TO FAIR, EGALITARIAN SURPLUS REGULTION, WHICH HAS STILL NOT BEEN TRIED.
DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND ME?!
https://doi.org/10.54120/jost.234567
Holy crap, the shade thrown in this paper might be enough to solve global warming.
ScienceOpenEditorial: The Four Waves: Then and Now<p class="first" id="d80780e78">An editorial on the ongoing debate of the four waves concept and the importance of
moving systems thinking as a field toward an empirical standard. Editorials are the
views of the author and do not represent the Journal’s views.
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Cabrera, Cabrera, & Midgley. (2023). The Four Waves of Systems Thinking. https://doi.org/10.54120/jost.000051
This is an amazing introduction into the history of #systemsThinking, and into DSRP. Just finished reading this this read it this week, and I think I might be a convert. DSRP seems like a super useful universal framework that can abstract all (most?) other systems thinking, perhaps even all thinking.
It also seems useful as a generative framework, in a similar way to the Grammar Of Graphics for data visualisation - by breaking the field down into manageable dimensions, it allows you to recombine them in new ways to produce potentially useful new ways of thinking about a context.
ScienceOpenThe Four Waves of Systems Thinking<p class="first" dir="auto" id="d6962117e179">This Handbook is about the past, present, and future of systems thinking. It captures
the history of systems thinking over its first three ‘waves,’ which are thought of
as significant paradigmatic time periods in the history of the field. It then introduces
a (possible) emerging fourth wave. Herein, we review the first three waves, as they
have been written about in depth before, and dedicate more space to describing the
fourth wave, as this is likely to be new to many readers. We cover all four waves
as an entree to the many chapters, which were both recommended by an International
Advisory Board (listed and thanked in the front material of this book), and written
by esteemed invited authors. These chapters aptly describe the various frameworks
that characterize the different waves; and notably include how those frameworks have
continued to evolve since their origin.
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The 2025 Cornell University Systems Thinking Conference will be online, May 1-2.
The conference will showcase the latest applications of Systems Thinking (DSRP Theory), Systems Leadership (VMCL Theory), advancements in the science of thinking, emerging empirical developments, and groundbreaking graduate student research from the Cornell University Brooks School of Public Policy.
https://blogs.cornell.edu/systemsthinking/2025-conference/
FYI: @joeltosi
blogs.cornell.edu2025 Conference – Systems Thinking at Cornell
One time, in a moment that I still can't exactly wrap my mind around, we got to talk to David Snowden.
He was the nicest, most genuine & patient genius-of-a-person we've interacted with. By the end he'd made sense of some questions we had, and at the same time we wished he was our neighbor.
AND, he's found the topic of mapping useful in wrestling with complex topics.
If you'd like new approaches to complex issues, we'd suggest...
#design #systemsthinking #map #maps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SITXkTFHVw
New paper on the telegraph line is out! It’s a #microhistory of Strangways Springs//Pangki Warruna, exploring its evolution from a #pastoral property to a #telegraph station to a #railway stop, and how these transitions shaped innovation in #Australia 
We also highlight the importance of #water in creating and sustaining these innovations (as is the case for technologies of today like #AI 
).
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10761-025-00788-4
SpringerLinkWool, Wires and Water: Technological Transitions at Strangways Springs - International Journal of Historical ArchaeologyThe Strangways Springs artesian mound spring complex in South Australia reveals a layered history in which resources, technology, labor, and culture are significant and changing variables. The site exists in Arabana country, and for thousands of years provided a location for human shelter, artesian waters, and life sustaining resources. The arrival of sheep stations in the “Far North” of South Australia represented a significant rupture and the creation of a new kind of economy based on wool. The establishment of an overland telegraph repeater station brought the latest technological developments to this remote frontier, which had the information of the world available instantly. Other developments such as the railway and wool scouring further secured the importance of locations like Strangways Springs in the continent's colonial infrastructure. This microhistory uses archaeology, archival research, and photography to explore these technological transitions and their impacts at Strangways Springs in the nineteenth century, providing important insights into the sociotechnical nexus that characterized emerging colonial worlds and new forms of modernity in settler Australia.
Systems thinking is an important part of a tester's skill set. I really enjoyed discussing systems thinking on the @mot’s Testing Planet with Simon Tomes, Sarah Byng and Rachel Kibler. It was great to learn from everyone on the broadcast. Thank you, Ministry of Testing, for inviting me to talk on Testing Planet about what I have learned on my systems thinking journey.
#SystemsThinking #SoftwareTesting
https://testandanalysis.home.blog/2025/03/11/exploring-systems-thinking/
TestAndAnalysis · Exploring Systems ThinkingSystems thinking is an important part of a tester’s skill set. I really enjoyed discussing systems thinking on the Ministry of Testing’s Testing Planet with Simon Tomes, Sarah Byng and Rachel…
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@RuthMalan @AlexPtakhin Thank you both! If only I could start every Monday like this. #SRE #Resilience #SystemsThinking
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@vfrmedia @frantictdrinker largely agree but evidence shows it’s not that frontline staff aren’t skilled enough, it’s that they’re systemically deskilled
Functional specialisation & the drive for so-called productivity gains means decision makers are shut in a back office & customer service staff are given the impossible job of serving the public without any ability to do anything but pass messages on, a process that, by design, causes errors
Scott & Mark learn to ... systems thinking.
Scott Hanselman and Mark Russinovich discuss #systems #thinking. Learn what they mean with expert beginners and how to work with AI.
Acast https://shows.acast.com/scott-and-mark-learn-to
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjInF4wbmxM
Mentioned podcast https://hanselminutes.com/484/systems-thinking-less-coding-more-thinking-with-kishau-rogers
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"You think that because you understand 'one' that you must therefore understand 'two' because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand 'and.'"
#systemsthinking #complexity #knowledgework
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1196427-you-think-that-because-you-understand-one-that-you-must
www.goodreads.comA quote from Thinking in SystemsYou think that because you understand “one” that you must therefore understand “two” because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also unde...
The new ING blog is out! As someone who is reading about #systemsthinking lately, it was a great read :) https://medium.com/ing-blog/triple-loop-learning-transforming-how-we-think-act-f9b5876e7bea
ING Blog · Triple Loop Learning: Transforming How We Think & Act
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However, I generally don't like how tags work in most tools.
So the approach I've been using instead is to make what would otherwise be a tag ("#systemsthinking") into a note of a its own (in Obsidian: "[[@systems thinking]]").
This way, I get all the benefits of a tag without the imposed restrictions, plus I now have a note in which to organize additional content / context / queries in the note that represents a topic that isn't possible when using a tag.
Rereading Kay and Tom Gilb's take on the #Agile manifesto. Warmly recommended for people that like to get stuff done in larger groups.
