- Marshall McLuhan – extensions and amputations – Aidan Ward and Philip Hellyer on their Gently Serious blog in 2019! With 1,211 views (number 2 last year – Lindy!)
- Our Theory of Change « The Berkana Institute also up from number 3 last year!
- Charles Handy’s sigmoid curve from 2020, new entry (?!)
- Conscious Purpose versus Nature – Gregory Bateson holding steady… glad this one keeps getting read!
- Implementation of Systems Thinking in Public Policy: A Systematic Review – Nguyen et al (2023) a new entry
- Gregory Bateson and the Counter-Culture (sigh) posted 2019, number 10 last year, complete with pirated cartoon
- Ackoff’s lift and Rory Sutherland’s fantasy… posted 2020, new entry
- Taxonomies of the unknown – Kerwin’s Map of Ignorance (1983) an interesting one – new entry too
- Waves 2024: Why complexity matters – Nora Bateson and Dave Snowden hosted by Sara Lindeman
- Biocentrism – Robert Lanza
What this shows is perhaps (with views here from 1,211 to 205) this isn’t super widely read – though a couple hundred at least get it by email. Views are down 18% year-on-year, possibly fewer updates, most likely due to the ability to automate posting in various Facebook groups having been taken away (Facebook still the biggest referrer). Makes me regret that – and the same for LinkedIn groups, gone many years ago!
And if you look at these and the ‘bubbling under’ list:
- Epistemological crises, dramatic narrative and the philosophy of science / Alasdair MacIntyre. – The Monist, 1977
- Commitment-based or promise-based management – Flores and Winograd plus Vision Consulting (Glennon and Spinosa) later
- Marshall MacLuhan’s Tetrad of media effects
- Simon’s ant & system complexity – The Seemingly Unrelated
- Benjamin Taylor on Twitter: “Does anyone have a good link or piece of their own on ‘the problem with mental models’? Or do I have to write it? :-)” / Twitter
…then what you see is a bunch of people googling for ‘classics’, and just a touch of me (and m’colleague @daviding) – which is probably as it should be…
See also
Top ten posts on syscoi.com in 2023
And on my own blog:
Systems Community of Inquiry 