Systems, cybernetics, complexity, sensemaking and ‘fellow traveller’ podcasts

These are the ones I subscribe to – please add or improve in the comments!

Titles marked with a * indicate those which currently have no contemporary episodes published (as of 2021-01-07) – most of these of course are defunct (but have a back catalogue), but not all will be

(See https://stream.syscoi.com/2020/10/08/who-are-our-fellow-travellers/ for my definition of ‘fellow travellers’)

– My podcasts coming soon (which should sort of be a mix of all of these since these are the water I swim in)

  • Transduction: the systems, complexity, and cybernetics podcast __I have come to sing songs to your cat__
  • Joy and Work – leading (public)service transformation

**Broadly systems/cybernetics/complexity/sensemaking**

  • BDCG — Applying Systems Thinking to Your Hardest Problems*
  • Catalyzing Conversations
  • Complex System – for iPod/iPhone (The Open University)*
  • Complexity (Santa Fe)
  • Complexity and Systemic Risk: Hilary Term Seminar Series 2010*
  • Complexus Podcast
  • General Intellect Unit
  • Human Current*
  • Managing complexity: a systems approach – for iBooks/ – introduction*
  • Nature matters: systems thinking and experts – for iBooks*
  • New Books in Systems and Cybernetics
  • Syntheic A Priori*
  • Systems Thinking – Mike Metcalfe
  • Systems thinking and practice – for IBooks*
  • The Clock and the Cat*
  • The Systemic Insight podcast*
  • Understanding systems: making sense of complexity – for iBooks*
  • Wicked Problems and Circular Systems

– **Sensemaking (ish) – and ‘game b’ ish**

  • Being Human
  • Both/And
  • Emerge: Making Sense of What’s Next*
  • Emergence Magazine Podcast
  • Future Thinkers
  • sensemaking – inside baseball*
  • Team Human
  • The Jim Rutt Show
  • The Stoa

– **Buddhism (post-traditional etc)**

  • Buddhist Geeks
  • Deconstructing Yourself
  • The Mindful Cranks

– **’System change’ / social change:**

  • The Ashoka Systems Change Podcast*
  • Beyond the Paradox Podcast*
  • Conversations about a Collaborative Society with Lord Victor Adebowale*
  • Find The Outside
  • In Too Deep (Kumu)*
  • Leadermorphosis
  • Moment of Change with Melanie Rayment*
  • New Thinking for a New World – a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
  • Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd
  • R Talks: Eploring Relational Social Policy
  • Systems Change Alliance
  • Unleashing Social Change

– **Environment/permaculture**

  • From What If to What Next
  • Inevitable Change*
  • Outrage + Optimism
  • The Permaculture Podcast

– **Other fellow travellers (safety differently and Strong Towns)**

  • PreAccident Investigation Podcast
  • The Strong Towns Podcast

– **Generally intellectual stuff**

  • EconTalk
  • Freakonomics Radio
  • Ideas (CBC Radio)
  • In Our Time
  • The Seen and the Unseen – hosted by Amit Varma
  • SynTalk

– **’Intellectual Dark Web’**

  • The Jordan B Peterson Podcast
  • The Intellectual Dark Web Podcast
  • Making Sense with Sam Harris (yawn)
  • Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show

– **Misc – interviews, surprising perspectives, world-building, digging beneath the surface (business, design etc)**

  • 99% Invisible
  • Akimbo: a podcast from Seth Godin
  • The Amiel Show*
  • Hidden Brain
  • Insivibilia*
  • Imaginary Worlds
  • The Kitchen Sisters Present
  • The Impossible Network
  • Lifefulness: Live Life Fully
  • Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking*
  • The Memory Palace
  • Prime Domino*
  • Reimagine Work
  • The Reboot Podcast
  • Thinking allowed

– **Shamanism**

  • 3Worlds – The Shamanism Podcast
  • Shaman’s Way
  • The Shamans Cave
  • Why Shamanism Now – A Practical Path to Authenticity

– **Philosophy**

  • History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
  • Philosophy Bites
  • Very Bad Wizards

– **Language**

  • The Allusionist
  • Lexicon Valley

– **History**

  • BackStory
  • Revisionist History
  • Stories from the Eastern West

– **Business and economics**

  • Seth Godin’s Startup School*
  • Masters in Business
  • Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman
  • Upstream
  • Without Fail
  • The Bottom Line
  • The World of Business

– **Rationalism and sciencing**

  • The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
  • More or Less: Behind the Stats
  • Science Vs
  • The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry
  • You Are Not So Smart

– **Methods (service design, lean, agile, change management etc)**

  • Why Service Design Thinking*
  • The Days of Change*
  • Leading Transformational Change with Tobias Sturesson
  • IDEO Futures*
  • Targeting Teal: Exploring Enterprise Change using Agile & Lean Principles*

– **Cyber-security and espionage (*almost* fellow traveller topics):**

  • Darknet Diaries
  • Risky Business
  • SpyCast

– **spirituality and that**

  • Ram Dass Here And Now
  • Alan Watts Podcast*

(left out – comedy, pop culture, and public sector shows)