Donella Meadows, in Dancing with Systems:
2. Listen to the wisdom of the system.
"Aid and encourage the forces and structures that help the system run itself. Don’t be an unthinking intervener and destroy the system’s own self-maintenance capacities. Before you charge in to make things better, pay attention to the value of what’s already there"
https://twitter.com/ruthmalan/status/1588549189524676609?s=20&t=frxWWdkt-Bpd15gOpuKDyAthere.
I'm noticing a delay, @JimSpohrer , between updates from the mastodon.social instance and qoto.org , that isn't evident with toots from other instances. This may be attributable to the high volume of recent signups to the largest Mastodon instance.
This may be a case for migrating to a more focused community that isn't the largest. This may be Internet thinking in federation, as compared to mainframe thinking in centralization.
My 1 hour lecture slide deck for my Introduction to #ComplexSystems for STEM students. I had planned to put the lecture online this fall, will try to get it done soon.
On the list of science-related sites at https://fediscience.org/server-list.html , I would suggest qoto.org , @FrankSonntag .
This was the third Mastodon instance that I tried, and have been there since 2018. Moderators make a big difference! https://scholar.social/@daviding
Web video of "Reifying Systems Thinking towards Changes" for #SystemThinking Ontario reused slides from #UBarcelona seminar for #RyanCArmstrong one week earlier. Rhythmic shift, (con)texture and propensity are main ideas by year 4 of 10-year journey.
Audio + slides introducing basics "Knowing Better via #SystemsThinking: Traditions and Contemporary Approaches" in lecture for
#RyanCArmonstrong to #UBarcelona business school students, covering variety of schools of thought, mainstream approaches, systems changes.
I posted on Twitter my whereabouts on Mastodon. https://twitter.com/daviding/status/1585602775202897921?t=ppqBNPl2FPjXfNmluCZWWg&s=19
Choosing an instance can be a speed bump. Servers are decentralized, so moderators may choose to be more or less active.
In the #anthropocene, humans can impact less.
> The report shows that Canada's economy can grow without increasing carbon emissions. The country's GDP grew 22 per cent between 2005 and 2020, but carbon emissions declined by 9.3 per cent over that period.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/climate-change-pandemic-emissions-canada-1.6420159
With #CodeForCanada , a presentation + workshop guide for #CanadianDigitalService on "#SystemsThinking through Changes: An #ActionLearning guide" is available CC-BY-SA
https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/systems-thinking-through-changes/ .
A milestone release by #SystemsChanges Learning Circle for practitioners, alongside publication in review
When there is a larger threat from outside, attention is drawn away from internal struggles within.
#RobertReich puts a historical perspective on current affairs in the USA.
> Putin has brought a fractured Nato together. Maybe he’s bringing America back together too. It’s the thinnest of silver linings to the human disaster he’s creating, but perhaps he’ll have the same effect on the US as the old Soviet Union did on America’s sense of who we are.
P.S. I am Canadian.
For those who are critical about "design thinking", #KarelVredenburg makes the strong distinction between design and pseudo-design.
https://www.karelvredenburg.com/home/2021/10/9/cr2h7dllvanrttb1tn8cfx1zjuhqol
"Why Science Does Not Know: A Brief History of (the Notion of) Scientific Ignorance in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries" https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/articles/10.5334/jhk.40/?s=09
Post normal science by Jerome Ravetz, because we can't ever completely eliminate ignorance.
Silvio Funtowicz wrote:
> Ravetz abandoned the modernist claim to successively eliminate ignorance & replace it by knowledge; he argued instead for the
"management" of uncertainty and ignorance, that is, for strategies of "post-normal science" to render ignorance "usable".
https://twitter.com/SFuntowicz/status/1467126642254528522?t=vTmTXGHQRlWNxIFAFpUDKw&s=19
Living with the parents longer has been a trend in the USA, as compared to the 1980s.
> It's a scenario that's not uncommon in the U.S. with the Pew Research Center publishing a study in 2018 that found just 24% of young adults were financially independent by age 22 or younger, compared with 32% in 1980.
Signs that Canadians are still cautious about the pandemic for Halloween 2021.
> But the online poll suggests fewer than half of Canadians will open their doors to trick-or-treaters due to COVID-19.
> Of the 56 per cent who checked no, half said they would typically dole out candy on Halloween but will not this time “given the current pandemic.”
https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/poll-canadians-still-reluctant-to-hand-out-halloween-candy-due-to-pandemic
> That’s the trouble about marriage. Women always hope it’s going to change the husband. Men always hope it won’t change their wives—and both are disappointed!
Generation Gap. Going on the road has been replaced by being on the screen. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/first-person/article-students-dont-really-get-on-the-road-anymore-classic-road-lit-is/
Open source licenses cover derivative works. Machine learning based on pre-existing work should carry the downstream license. That is the responsibility of the human being initiating the machine learning algorithm, and you can't blame the machine. https://twitter.com/kellabyte/status/1411449622288076801
> I heard GitHub is training their co-pilot with other peoples copyrighted source code thus allowing copyrighted source code to be injected into other peoples products.
There was a time I felt GitHub was on the ethical side of things but that’s starting to fade.
Systems change researcher resident in Toronto, Canada. Past president, International Society for the Systems Sciences. Author of Open Innovation Learning book. Research fellow, CSRP Institute. Alumnus of IBM after 28 years.