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)

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Mary Catherine Bateson: Living with Cybernetics – YouTube

Adler Looks Jorge in the American Cybernetics Society group on LinkedIn

We honor our memory of Mary Catherine Bateson, cultural anthropologist and friend to the ASC. 1938 – 2020

Mary Catherine Bateson: Living with Cybernetics

Mary Catherine Bateson: Living with Cybernetics

16 Dec 2018

As the guest speaker at the ASC dinner meeting at the 2014 Conference in Washington DC, Mary Catherine Bateson, daughter of Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, shared two stories about her mother orienting her to cybernetics as a young child. One story is about first-cybernetics when talking about analyzing systems, the second about second-cybernetics when focusing on observing one’s observing.

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An Invitation to Dinner with the Family of Systems Disciplines – Community.Vitechcorp.com

An Invitation to Dinner with the Family of Systems Disciplines

Systems are truly a family affair. As the concept of systems becomes more significant in the way we think and solve problems, it is increasingly apparent that there are several disciplines, which “specialize” in the study and design of systems. Each discipline views systems from its own perspective, which is related to its purpose and reason for existence. Just as family members gathered for dinner approach the topics of conversation differently given their interests and backgrounds, the systems disciplines consider aspects of systems concepts differently, and use them in different ways. Each of them individually and all of them together have things to offer us in advancing our knowledge and practice of thinking about systems.

Understanding the many facets and perspectives in considering systems will help today’s systems engineers as we wrangle complexity, confront wicked problems, and craft innovative answers to problems that span the socio-technical world. It is worthwhile to consider the variety of systems disciplines and what they have to offer.

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Family Resemblance vs. Polymorphism

Family Resemblance vs. Polymorphism

A comparison: 
Wittgenstein’s Family Resemblance Theory 
vs. Ryle’s Polymorphism and 
Polymorphism in Computer Science/MathematicsAnd perhaps Kant’s notion of “schema”?

(DRAFT: Liable to change)

Aaron Sloman 
School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham. 
(Philosopher in a Computer Science department)

Installed: 30 Apr 2011 
Updated: 11 Jan 2019 (major additions re parametric polymorphism). 
24 Mar 2017; 2018 ….; 14 Jul 2018 
30 Mar 2016; 16 Jul 2016; 12 Sep 2016; 18 Dec 2016 
21 Mar 2016 added “Polymorphism of design requirements” and a few edits.; 
9 Mar 2016 added “creativity” 
19 Apr 2014; 24 Apr 2014; 23 Oct 2015 (Reformatted/minor additions);

This paper is 
HTML: 
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/family-resemblance-vs-polymorphism.html 
PDF: 
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/family-resemblance-vs-polymorphism.pdf

A partial index of discussion notes is in 
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/AREADME.html

This is one of several papers related to the “Computational Qualia” project summarised here by Ron Chrisley: 
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Computational-qualia

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Vish (game) – Wikipedia

Vish (game)

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In the game of Vish (short for vicious circle), players compete to find circularity in dictionary definitions.^[1] Irish mathematician and physicist, John Lighton Synge, invented the multi-player, refereed game to emphasize the circular reasoning implicit in the defining process of any standard dictionary.

Procedure

1. Each of the players is given a copy of the same standard dictionary;
2. The referee gives each a slip of paper with the same word (found in this dictionary) written on each slip—word chosen so that it has synonyms in its definition, but (preferably) the definition of any synonym does not (in that dictionary) list a synonym which is the originally assigned word;
3. At “Go!”, each looks up the assigned word, finds a synonym, looks that up, finds a synonym, etc.;
4. The first player to be led, by this synonymous process, back to the originally assigned word cries “Vish!” and wins the game (unless his opponent successfully challenges the procedure of the alleged winner).

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BOGDANOV, CRITICAL SYSTEMS THINKING, POST-CAPITALISM, AND QUANTUM PHYSICS | LinkedIn

BOGDANOV, CRITICAL SYSTEMS THINKING, POST-CAPITALISM, AND QUANTUM PHYSICS

• Published on January 5, 2021

Dr Mike C Jackson OBE

Centre for Systems Studies

The work of the Russian revolutionary and polymath Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928) is provoking significant interest in a variety of fields. Let’s consider his recent impact as a forerunner of critical systems thinking, a prophet of post-capitalism, and provider of a worldview consistent with quantum theory.

Bogdanov and Critical Systems Thinking

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[PDF] Dancing With Demons: Pathogenic Problem Solving | Semantic Scholar

Dancing With Demons: Pathogenic Problem Solving

Kathleen S. Long

Published 2006

PsychologyThis paper explores the way in which we define and deal with social problems such as crime and proposes a new way of thinking about them. Criminality, poverty, illiteracy, addiction and child abuse are some of society’s most acute and intractable problems. Despite countless attempted remedies, these complex social problems have continued to grow around the world. Although we have developed systems to address these problems, their operation routinely increases problem severity and scope. They are, in effect, perfectly designed to grow the very pathologies which they were designed to eliminate. To confront these paradoxical outcomes, I took a trans-disciplinary approach to develop a new systemic view for designing systems to cope with the emergent meta-problems. Anchored in second-order cybernetics, and ethnography, this research re-contextualized the problem within a self-reproductive economy of interaction and meaning-making, drawing its boundaries on the basis of its systemic operations and conditions of connectivity across intersecting roles related to the problem-solver, the problem host and the identified problem itself. The result is a model of pathogenesis as nested interactions appearing iteratively from individual to societal levels, revealing a self-referential, recursive and paradoxical structure. Within the multitude of self-referential systems, both biological and social, this research provides a new framework which exposes those factors that initiate, reinforce, escalate and perpetuate unintended evolutionary consequences and identifies specific alterations required to systemically produce beneficial results. An ethnographic case study from the criminal justice system serves as the starting point for this research which provides the basis for an innovative systems methodology relevant to understanding the human condition, and a model for effective, sustainable decision-making processes.

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Bioeconomics: The Hidden Megascience – Resilience

Bioeconomics: The Hidden Megascience

By Andreas Weber, originally published by Shareable

• July 19, 2013

NOTE: Images in this archived article have been removed.

In this section I want to explore on a more specific level why we living beings have mostly forgotten or marginalized the notion of life. To do this, I wish to draw attention to the astonishing interconnections and mutual support between the two guiding metaphysics of our culture. These are (Neo-)Darwinism, with its big idea of biological optimization, in which functional adaptations supposedly create biodiversity, and (Neo-)Liberalism, with its concept of economic efficiency, supposedly creating wealth and equal distribution.

For more than 150 years, both assumptions have become intertwined streams of one coherent pattern of thought that forms the basic matrix of our official understanding of reality. The premises of neo-Darwinism and neoliberalism constitute the tacit, taken-for-granted understanding of “how the world works”. Inside its deep and compact logical structure, the two currents of biological and economic optimization theory are so mutually reinforcing and normative that respectable thoughts considers them beyond question.1

It is not by chance that “eco-nomy” and “eco-logy” are nearly identical terms. Both build on the metaphor of housekeeping and the provisioning of existential goods and services (the Greek word “oikos” means “house”, “householding” or “family”). Both concepts have a particular and related manner of treating the organisation of this existential supply. Both start from the idea that keeping a house – or making a living, for that matter – is a theater of competition and contest whose object is an ever-more-optimal efficiency. In the neoDarwinian, neoliberal narrative, the household is not, however, a place where feeling agents pursue their individual good. The householding process is strangely conceived of as completely subject-less. Its logic does not need to take account of the actual presence of agents. Indeed, it does not need to take life into account at all.

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Strategic Communications + The Brand Stack, Zaid Khan + David Akermanis (ST-ON 2020/09/14) – Coevolving Innovations

Strategic Communications + The Brand Stack, Zaid Khan + David Akermanis (ST-ON 2020/09/14)

 December 31, 2020  daviding 0 Comments

Two Major Research Projects (MRPs) — they might be called master’s theses elsewhere — by Zaid Khan and David Akermanis reflect the Systemic Design agenda within the OCADU program on Strategic Foresight and Innovation (SFI).    To graduate, all SFI students complete an MRP.  With many subjects and techniques covered during SFI studies, only a few exercise Systemic Design at their core.

The September session of Systems Thinking Ontario came shortly after the defence of the two MRPs in August.  As we had suspended convening in person during 2020, our monthly meeting was conducted online.  This afforded recordings to be shared more widely.

The video file is also available on the Internet Archive, for those who prefer a downloadable option.

The digital audio originally in M4A format has also been transcoded to MP3.

Here is the original description for the Systems Thinking Ontario September 14, 2020, session.

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Strategic Communications + The Brand Stack

A Major Research Project at OCADU is roughly equivalent to a Master’s Degree thesis (with some administrative differences). To start off the new academic year, we will have fresh presentations following the successful defences in the Strategic Foresight & Innovation Program at OCADU over the last month, by Zaid Khan and David Akermanis.

(1) A Systems-Oriented Approach to Strategic Communications — Zaid Khan

Systemic Design has emerged as both a theory and a practice that integrates design thinking and systems thinking to help designers cope with complex social systems.

In this Major Research Project, Zaid explores how strategic communications – the planned process of delivering a relevant message to a specific audience to achieve an objective – can be adapted to help organizations better respond to complex issues (wicked problems) and the variety contained within higher-order systems.

The MRP looks at this topic through a case study involving Canadian news media. The issues facing journalism and Canadian news media are complex in nature; multiple stakeholders, different organizations and industries, competing value systems, objectives, perspectives, and interests. This makes it an ideal case to examine the effects that a more systems-oriented approach to communications may have when responding to complexity.

The paper identifies the first set of learnings on: how the principles of Systemic Design can inform the development of “systems-oriented communications”, its potential value for value organizations, and future areas of research.

Biography:

• With one foot coming out of the creative advertising world, and the other stepping into systemic design and systems changes, Zaid is exploring the ways people respond to complex issues.

(2) The Brand Stack: Using systems to diagnose and address barriers to organizational alignment and brand identity — David Akermanis

Most business leaders understand that brands are a reflection of cross-functional activity that spans well beyond the traditional scope of the marketing department. But, most don’t approach cross-functional management of their brands with a great deal of formality or intent. It often happens informally, or organically. Few seem to think about designing processes and structure to specifically promote brand outcomes.

In this Major Research Project, David explores how organizations might better diagnose and address systemic misalignments that prevent them from achieving brand-related outcomes. Its aim is to explore whether a “brand system” can serve a cybernetic role. One that helps management more deliberately pursue the integrative effects associated with brand orientation and the consideration of brand as a central managerial pursuit.

By employing a research through design (RtD) approach, the paper proposes that the “brand stack” might be an effective scaffold which can be used to better understand the artefacts, processes and structures that promote brand values across organizations. The brand stack conceptualizes the brand as a type of control system for the organization; one which can be deliberately designed to promote system viability.

Biography:

• David has spent the last decade working in advertising, consulting and public relations, helping organizations build their brands, sharpen their strategies, and focus their marketing operations. His unique blend of experience allows him to not only help clients to carve out unique market positions and develop powerful brand expressions, but also to look inside the organisation to help design processes, roles and tools to help ensure brand success.

References

From the OCAD University Open Research Repository

• Khan, Zaid (2020) Responding to Complexity with Humility: A Systems-oriented Approach to Strategic Communication. [MRP] at http://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/3115/
• Akermanis, David (2020) The Brand Stack: Using brand systems to diagnose and address systemic barriers to organizational alignment and brand identity. [MRP] at http://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/3114/

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Systems Thinking Ontario – 2021-01-11

January 11: The Systems Movement: Engaging Communities with Traditions and Diversity

This message was not sent to Spam because of a filter you created.Move to spamEdit FiltersFor the first ST-ON session for the new year, we’ll have a conversation with Gary S. Metcalf.
What is involved in guiding the multiple schools of systems thinking and cybernetics worldwide? As president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (2007-2008) and the International Federation for Systems Research (2010-2016), Gary has served as a steward for the systems movement worldwide.

The meeting will held online.  Gary will be calling in from Ashland, Kentucky.
Read more about this 86th monthly meeting at https://wiki.st-on.org/2021-01-11 .  Please pre-register for the web link at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-systems-movement-engaging-communities-with-traditions-and-diversity-registration-135083621749

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Events | SCiO

This is the monthly events mailing from SCiO. Further details of events are available by clicking on the event titles (link) and you can also book each event direct from the Book now text.

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A SCiO member is now setting up a SCiO Espana group and we will be letting you know more as this progresses.

SCiO – Systems & Complexity in Organisation

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SCiO UK Virtual Open Meeting – January 2021

Mon 18 January 2021 18:30–20:30 GMT

Virtual Open Meeting: A series of presentations of general interest to Systems and Complexity in Organisation’s members and others. SCiO organises Open Meetings to provide opportunities for practitioners to learn and develop new practice, to build relationships, networks hear about skills, tools, practice and experiences. This virtual session will be held on Zoom, the details of which will be confirmed nearer the time. 
Designing the System of Leadership – Dan Edds 
The ‘Four Quadrants’ of Thinking Threats – Benjamin Taylor

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“Afterwards in the bar” – SCiO UK January 2021

Mon 25 January 2021 19:00–21:00 GMT 
“Afterwards in the bar” is a SCiO UK networking event where we try to recapture some of the features of meeting in the bar after an open meeting. This is an opportunity to mingle freely (online) and set your own agenda. These social networking events are different from the open days (speakers and discussion) and member-only development days (each agenda slot filled set by members for learning discussions). Social networking events combine some initial small group work and provide completely open opportunities to mingle as individuals and groups. The format will vary slightly based on numbers….

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SCiO UK Virtual Development Event – February 2021

Mon 1 February 2021 19:00–21:00 GMT 
SCiO’s Development Days offer an opportunity to draw upon the collective expertise of SCiO members in a friendly and supportive atmosphere. By taking Development Events online, using the Zoom meeting platform, we aim to make them accessible to more SCiO members Development Events are both for members who are just starting out on a journey to explore Systems Thinking approaches, and for those who have many years of exploration and practice…. 
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SCiO-NL January 2021 meeting – Workshops: systeemdenken toegepast op huisvesting in Nederland

Tue 12 January 2021 18:00–20:00 CET

In de Nederlandse vereniging hebben we eerder vanuit een systemisch perspectief gekeken naar de (politieke) situatie van huisvesting in Nederland. In deze bijeenkomst gaan we verder aan de slag met de eerdere uitkomsten. We gaan daarvoor in kleine groepen uiteen. Iedere groep zal, onder leiding van een gespreksleider, het probleem vanuit een andere hoek verder analyseren….

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SCiO Belgium – digitale meeting editie februari 2021

Wed 10 February 2021 18:00–20:30 CET

Virtuele meeting (Zoom) waar we telkens inzoomen op één topic gebracht door een inspirerende spreker, waarna we een mind-openende én verdiepende dialoog houden. 19:00 Welkom & introductie 19:20 Netwerk moment SCiO-stijl 19:30 ‘Essential Balances for Organizational Diagnose and Design’ – Ivo Velitchkov – European commission & Independant Consultant (Eng) 20:30 Verdiepende dialoog 21:15 Conclusies & dankwoord Het Belgische netwerk is een Nederlandstalig netwerk, deze meeting zal gezien de spreker in het Engels doorgaan. Het Belgische netwerk is een Nederlandstalig netwerk. SC…

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SCiO DACH Buch Club mit Dr. Martin Pfiffner

Thu 28 January 2021 16:00–17:30 CET

SCiO DACH Buch Club mit Dr. Martin Pfiffner und seinem fantastischen Buch „Die dritte Dimension des Organisierens“ erschienen 2020 bei Springer/ Gabler mit 348 Seiten für 34.99 € als Taschenbuch. eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-29247-8, Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-29246-1 Donnerstag den 28.01.2021 von 16:00 bis 17:30 Uhr GMT virtuell Die 1. Dimension; die Aufbauorganisation Die 2. Dimension; die Ablauforganisation Die 3. Dimension des Organisierens; das Viable System Model mit seiner vollständigen Beschreibung von Steuerung und Kommunikation in einer Organisation. Martin Pfiffner nimmt uns mit dem Bu…

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