David Ing @daviding@qoto.org

OCAD University: Talk by @pluralistic on Jailbreaking Canada event, after second day of 3-day playshop with graduate students. Advocating that Canada should put our digital elbows up, and disenshittify our technology from corporate giants. Bad anti-circumvention laws mean we're blocked from modifying devices we own. (OCAD University, McCaul Street, Toronto, Ontario) 20251127

Web video of Pacing Changes: Seeing Living Systems as Rhythms for #SCiO Finland by #ZaidKhan, hosted by #JanneJKorhonen . Shift in #SystemsThinking from default spatial-static to more processual-dynamic perspective, multiple layers, differing paces

https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/pacing-changes-scio-finland/

Web video + research article on Pacing Changes, Appreciating Approaches to Systems and Designing for #RSDSymposium . Nine ways of #SystemsThinking from (more form+stability) to (more temporality+change). Conversation Studio at #OCADU for October 18.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/pacing-changes-appreciating-approaches/

Web video of Tracing sLab’s Journey, and Reinvigoration with #GregVanAlystyne + #PeterScott #OCADU at #SystemsThinking Ontario crossover to #RSDSymposium. Preamble to in-person workshop Friday, October 17 3:30-5:30pm 100 McCaul Street. Moderator #ZaidKhan
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/tracing-slabs-journey-and-reinvigoration-for-the-systemic-design-community-st-on-x-rsd14-2025-09-10/

Web video applying Contextural Appreciative Learning on revising #SystemsThinking course with #StephenDavies for winter 2025 #OCADU_SFI program. Hellenic HSSS conference proceedings article includes reflections + student surveys guiding next iteration.
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/refreshing-a-curriculum/

Web video + peer-reviewed article for #WMSCI 2025 of Rethinking #SystemsThinking for #SystemsChanges Learning: Philosophizing, Theorizing, and Methodizing reduces 6 years of research in 12 pages (+5 for references) and 23-minute video. Warning, it's dense!
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/philosophizing-theorizing-methodizing/

Web video "Pacing Changes with Living Systems: Rhythmic threads in textures, rhythmic textures of threads" by #ZaidKhan at #SysPrac25 #SCiO #OpenUniversity UK. Processual approach for 21st century #SystemsThinking
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/pacing-changes-living-systems-sysprac25/

In the Fediverse, qoto.org looks to be fully federated, and I can read @yannlecun over here. I post rarely on threads.net , so I encourage friends to turn on the "Fediverse sharing" setting on their Threads accounts.

Other Mastodon instances may have taken a different stance on the Fedipact . https://fedipact.veganism.social

https://www.threads.com/@david.ingwu/post/DNTZsctO7Wo?xmt=AQF0jFbkYr5xyEOgd6WFMtQ_H4JsStDaexQo-E1h9DqOhg

"Most of thought has nothing to do with language" says @yannlecun . LLMs are incapable of four essential characteristics of intelligent behavior. The next generation of AI has world models, predicting what might happen as consequences of action .

https://daviding.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/2025-05-15-the-future-of-open-ai-not-as-llms/

"It might not be about starting with why, maybe it's about starting with when" says #ZaidKhan on "Humbling Design by Sensing Rhythms" to audience of designers at #OCADU #TEDx. Building on research from master's in design, plus #SystemsThinking collaboration since 2019.

https://youtu.be/RwDU7vb20Ow

Video recording of "AI Automation or IA Intelligence Augmentation" roundtable by #ISSIP + #CsrpInstitute sparked chats on negotiation skills, essential services, autonomous workgroups, accountabilities, asynchonous learning and AI.

https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/ai-automation-or-ia-intelligence-augmentation-issip/

Slides and video on “Thinking with Time: A brief introduction to Systems Changes Learning” by #ZaidKhan for Strategic Foresight and Innovation program at @ocad "Understanding Systems" course are an easier way into recent progress on #SystemsThinking foregrounding temporality.

https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/thinking-with-time-zaid-khan/

"Living systems science"!

> 17 ... design-engaged cross-disciplinary
... AI, living systems science, social sciences, material science, ... engineering, arts and culture, and economic management ...

DesignS: World Design Cities Shanghai Manifesto 2024

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2025.05.003

Web video of lecture on "Pacing Changes: Elevating the when+where in living systems", for #AnnaChekhman course on Designing Future Systems #YorkUniveristy School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, Toronto . Advancing #SystemsThinking with #SystemsChange research.

https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/pacing-changes-elevating-the-whenwhere-in-living-systems/

Through ecosystems ecology, I learned more about #LivingSystems from #TimothyFHAllen than anyone else in the #SystemsThinking community. His final work:

Curtin, Charles G., and Timothy F. H. Allen, eds. 2018. _Complex Ecology: Foundational Perspectives on Dynamic Approaches to Ecology and Conservation_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108235754 .

https://ingbrief.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/timothy-f-h-allen-passed-away-on-may-01-2025/

Peer reviewed article on "Rethinking work, with the pandemic disruption: Metatheorizing with world hypotheses and systems changes” with #SusuNousala published in International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, after 2 years in revisions, #RyanArmstrong editor
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/rethinking-work-with-the-pandemic-disruption/

Thinking about #SystemsThinking contribution for March 15, towards October in Toronto.

> The intent-to-submit period for papers closes on March 15, 2025. This is a two-stage process: no new submissions will be accepted after March 15, and final submissions are due by 23:59 GMT on April 30.

https://rsdsymposium.org/call-for-systemic-design-contributions/

Audio recordings + 2 GenAI summaries of Evolving Styles for Learning Systems Thinking at #SystemsThinking Ontario @ocad with #StephenDavies @daviding@daviding.com , moderated by #ZaidKhan
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/evolving-styles-for-learning-systems-thinking/

Types of use of Gen AI cites poster session by IBM Research.

> We describe current LLM usages across three categories: creation, information, and advice.

Michelle Brachman, Amina El-Ashry, Casey Dugan, and Werner Geyer.
2024. How Knowledge Workers Use and Want to Use LLMs in an Enterprise
Context. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM,
New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3650841

Maybe Gen AI is better for those who trust it the least.

> Specifically, higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking. Qualitatively, GenAI shifts the nature of critical thinking toward information verification, response integration, and task stewardship. Our insights reveal new design challenges and opportunities for developing GenAI tools for knowledge work.

"The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers", Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Advait Sarkar, Lev Tankelevitch, et al. | Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2025 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-impact-of-generative-ai-on-critical-thinking-self-reported-reductions-in-cognitive-effort-and-confidence-effects-from-a-survey-of-knowledge-workers/