Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #95
Benjamin P. Taylor
RedQuadrant | the Public Service Transformation Academy | systems | cybernetics | complexity / public | service | transformation business evolutionary | avid learner. Reframing for better outcomes. Connecting.
This week:
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My Weekly Blog?post:
During my university days, I was involved in a wonderful initiative called K.E.E.N. (Kids Enjoy Exercise Now), which brought together disabled kids, students, and siblings. We gathered every Saturday to play sports and games, providing respite for parents and enjoyment for all involved. What made it truly special was that it wasn't just charity; it created a community of equals, where people volunteered for the joy and fulfillment it brought us.
Three jobs: Systems Researcher/Practitioner – Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,?UK
Jim talks with Alicia Juarrero about her new book?Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence. They discuss Aristotle’s four causes, applying them to complex dynamical systems, the overfocus on efficient cause, naive Newtonianism, nothing-but-ism, reconceptualizing causality in terms of constraints, mereology, constraint regimes, ascribing causal powers to emergent properties, the roots of panpsychism, Searle’s comparison of consciousness with digestion, kinds of constraints, the Dysons’ notion of analog control, why analog is more efficient, identity as a set of interdependent constraints, surface vs deep dyslexia & early neural nets, the work of Geoffrey Hinton, the species competitive exclusion principle, cardinality vs ordinality, the social evolution of cassava, Rayleigh-Benard convection, dissipative systems, Alicia’s disagreement with Michael Polanyi, the architecture of the circulatory system, scaffolding, top-down causality, many-to-one transitions, degeneracy, pluripotentiality, the ship of Theseus, 4E cognitive science, and much more.
Systems Thinking – a different way of looking at the work – Lightning Talk 2021 version – Sally?Bean
Uploaded Oct. 9, 2022
Science
A talk that attempts to explain the essence of systems thinking using a bicycle.
sallybean?https://www.slideshare.net/sallybean/systems-thinking-lightning-talk-2021-versionpdf?from_action=follow
Always a bunch of fantastic events coming up from SCiO - systems and complexity in organisation:
Events | SCiO?https://www.systemspractice.org/events
A funeral for fish and chips: why are Britain’s chippies disappearing??https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/jul/20/a-funeral-for-fish-and-chips-east-neuk-fife-anstruther-scotland
For the poorest, the cost-of-living crisis is worse than it officially looks?https://wearecitizensadvice.org.uk/for
Cormac Russell Plenary Presentation - Quality Forum 2023 - Health Quality BC?
Just came across this - exciting! There's a version for sale and also a free version - bargain!
Communities of practice - within and across organizations: a guidebook - Etienne Wenger-Trayner, Beverley Wenger-Trayner, Phil Reid, Clause Bruderlin?
Border Force classing child asylum seekers as adults, giving them new dates of birth in minutes?https://inews.co.uk/news/border-force-child-asylum-seekers-adults-new-dates-birth-2472245
Very important, though I would argue that we've been at this threshold for about five or six years (and that apparent stability increases rather than decreases the risk and seriousness. And I would argue (a bit) against an emergency rescue package, too - we've been propping up and making do for at least that long, it needs to be addressed structurally.
Local authorities need an emergency rescue package?https://www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/regional-development/2023/07/council-rescue-package-finance-bankruptcy
Deacon Blue - He Looks like Spencer Tracy Now?
The cost of lies?
UK Illegal Migration Bill: UN Refugee Agency and UN Human Rights Office warn of profound impact on human rights and international refugee protection system | UNHCR?https://www.unhcr.org/news/press-releases/uk-illegal-migration-bill-un-refugee-agency-and-un-human-rights-office-warn
Sorry I can't participate this year - but this will be amazing, as usual!
If you're involved in?#change, don't miss it!
Australasian Change Days?
https://www.australasianchangedays.com/
Welsh government and Cornwall council sign collaboration deal?https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/17/welsh-government-cornwall-council-collaboration-deal
The online safety bill: taking a sledgehammer to the internet in the UK??https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the-online-safety-bill-taking-a-sledgehammer-to-the-internet-in-the-uk/
A Brief History of Automotive Coatings Technology?https://www.paint.org/coatingstech-magazine/articles/brief-history-automotive-coatings-technology/
Fish in a Tie: A Community Asset Lost – Clapham Junction Insider – Local Democracy Reporting?https://www.cjag.org/2023/07/14/fish-in-a-tie-a-community-asset-lost/
Up, up And Away... New book just latest chapter in storied career of Orange Juice fan Bob Mortimer?https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-times/3493295/and-away-bob-mortimer/
Architecture and the God Problem?https://commonedge.org/architecture-and-the-god-problem/
Growing to Harmony -OR- Growing to Tragedy ... A choice to make …
1 年What do you think is the right response for people who realize that the benefits we get for being part of an economy that profits from maximizing it’s biophysical and cultural stability overshute, are really for us and others we care for payments for suicide? That reward we all get from pushing life ever further beyond safe limits seems to be what’s been causing the naive to think it’s wonderful and OK to accept such tainted gifts. It’s at least a primary reason that caring for our future is so far down the list. The biophysical fact, though, is that any growth system that doesn’t “grow up” to make itself whole will more or less precipitously die. What, other than care for what we create (rather than not milk it to death) should we do?