PATTERNS OF LIFE: How Traditional Urban Patterns Are a More Powerful (and More Necessary) Antidote than We Might Think to the Current "Age of Disruption" www.imcl.online/post/pattern...

If you could only have one kitchen knife, why is it this one?

Problem Solving, Problem Seeking – Ing (2026) stream.syscoi.com/2026/04/18/p...

Reframing Public Services in Ireland as a Relational Practice - Public Policy publicpolicy.ie/papers/refra...

Beyond caring: a new funding model for later-life social care - Re:State re-state.co.uk/publications...

There’s a quiet skill in seeing the game being played without needing to win it, fix it, or expose it. Underrated, slightly subversive.

I trust people who can describe how they might be wrong. I worry about people who can only describe what’s wrong with others.

The session went well! Everyone agreed to continue as before, but with slightly different words.

Public services don’t lack innovation. They lack the permission to stop doing things that no longer make sense.

I keep hearing 'we need culture change' What they mean is: 'we’d like different results without changing how decisions get made'

Most 'transformation' fails because it tries to change behaviour without changing constraints. People aren’t resisting; the system is working exactly as designed.

WHEN THE EXILE BECOMES THE CULTURE communityalchemist.substack.com/p/when-the-e...

Israeli and Palestinian activists share a vision for peace in Gaza www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

Shakespeare's 'missing' London house mapped with new discovery | King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/news/shakesp...

‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Tristan da Cunha: The busiest place you’ve never seen apps.npr.org/life-on-tris...

Why domesticated foxes are genetically fascinating (and terrible pets) www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...

Atomic Habits: British Cycling Update www.linkedin.com/notification...

Emergence, Closure and Inter-level Causation in Biological Systems – Mossio, Bich and Morena (2013) stream.syscoi.com/2026/04/16/e...

Re-viewed: Alan Warde’s (2005) ‘Consumption and Theories of Practice’ in the Journal of Consumer Culture | The Journal of Practice Theory ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/jpt/article/...

SCEU Book Club: Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows - 13 May stream.syscoi.com/2026/04/16/s...

Drawing Waves: Recap of “Pacing Strategy” Workshop – Khan (2026) stream.syscoi.com/2026/04/16/d...

Beyond Goal-Driven Agency: Loss of Control, Instrumental Drift, and the Need for a Richer Foundation for Autonomous Systems indyjohar.substack.com/p/beyond-goa...

Whose uncertainty is this anyway? bevtrayner.substack.com/p/whose-unce...

Does anyone know the scam behind all the 'representatives of a Family Office' (or VC etc) who 'are keen to invest in your vertical' and want to 'hop on a Zoom' to find out more? I can't work out how they benefit?!

𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴/𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 www.linkedin.com/posts/natali...

On the way to a better version of the Cohesion Spectrum, here's a draft I published to get feedback. Please comment, either on the article or here. @antlerboy.com @harishjose.bsky.social @pabloredux.bsky.social @benetou.fr ivo.leaflet.pub/3mjjnrpdhec2e

Cor blimery reportfraud.police.uk and also the Sussex police traffic incident reporting website are bad, bad, bad :-(

A linkedin post and pdf noting the launch of the new UK government Systems Insight Team (SIT)  stream.syscoi.com/2026/04/14/a...

How Embodiment Transforms Systems Change – Collective Change Lab – Marra, Kania, Calderon de la Barca and Zeitz (2026) stream.syscoi.com/2026/04/14/h...

O.D.T.R.E.A.M. Optimal Distinctivenss Theorem Rules Everything Around Me!

If Adobe can offer me this (slow) compression of pdfs every single time I download from the browser... why can't Adobe find a way to get these pdfs (in this case a government 'playbook') compressed before upload to the web?

This is as close to hopeful as I get...

Concise Introduction to Systems Thinking – Van Assche, Verschraegen, Gruezmacher (2026) stream.syscoi.com/2026/04/13/c...

Well worth a read! Paying in 30 days would help too when we do get the work!

Cultural-Historical Activity Theory stream.syscoi.com/2026/04/13/c...

How to get growth from UK professional service SMEs with a public sector focus – from a ‘big four’ to a ‘big ten’ www.linkedin.com/posts/antler...

How to get growth from UK professional service SMEs with a public sector focus – from a ‘big four’ to a ‘big ten’ buff.ly/4JuOQGn

“Your skin doesn’t separate you from the world; it’s a bridge through which the external world flows into you, and you flow into it.” Alan Watts I love this piece - it makes me think of the above, but also provides a 'stand' for what Barry Oshry (perhaps confusingly) calls 'robust systems'

When the Flagship Sinks - The Risk Has to Land Somewhere simonspiller.substack.com/p/when-the-f...

Most ‘agility’ conversations leave out the hard part. www.linkedin.com/posts/antler...

Most ‘agility’ conversations leave out the hard part. Not ‘are we delivering faster?’ But: can the organisation sense what’s changing… and change itself without lying to itself? I'd value all inputs here: bit.ly/3Q4QRJi

Stuck in the middle with you: A pragmatic theory of change – Mowles (2026) stream.syscoi.com/2026/04/13/s...

Stafford Beer Revisited – Caminao’s Way (Remy Fannader) stream.syscoi.com/2026/04/13/s...

How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk www.propublica.org/article/unit...

Building the Foundations for Anti-Racist Commissioning in Public Health www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-t...

19th International Conference of Sociocybernetics – Glocal Intersections, Oaxaca, Mexico, 3-7 August 2026 (Hybrid Format) stream.syscoi.com/2026/04/12/1...

The History of Systems Thinking – Michael Lissack for systemsliteracy.org (2026) stream.syscoi.com/2026/04/12/t...

Ian McGilchrist, Part 1: Right-Brain Thinking - Decoding the Gurus decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/ian-...