Saul Kaplan
@skap5.bsky.social
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Hopeful innovation junkie unleashing the adjacent possible one random collision at a time.
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Systems problems require systems solutions. What if we could design for the emergence of better, more equitable social systems?
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Design for Emergence: A Theory of Social System Change
Social systems challenges require social systems solutions. What if we can design for the emergence of new social systems?
https://saulkaplan.medium.com/design-for-emergence-a-theory-of-social-system-change-4fc095b2b24f?sk=0f8df6900cf8081cecc230af837cd878
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An hour with my friend, mentor and design icon Richard Saul Wurman is a master class in understanding understanding. We talked about the origin of TED, Louis Kahn’s Brutilism sensibilities and a new invite only conference 90 year old RSW has in the works!
5 months ago
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Say it ain't so, Mo!
#MoVaughn
#RedSox
7 months ago
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You can’t step in the same meme twice–the second time, the culture is different. Godin
8 months ago
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Let a thousand AI business models bloom. Our obsession with scale is leaving way too many people and communities behind and putting our planet at risk.
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Our Obsession With Scale Must End
What if we designed for the emergence of new system-changing business models?
https://saulkaplan.medium.com/our-obsession-with-scalability-must-end-56d61aefd1a3?sk=3665f55e21302ed96381947aa090cfc8
9 months ago
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The way life should be! Always energized by a quick trip to the Maine coast.
9 months ago
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Sticking to more reading and less cable news/social media in 2025. Going deep on LBJ thanks to Robert Caro. I’m already on the 3rd book in this amazing series and it’s impossible not to recognize many of the origins of today’s unsettling partisan power politics.
9 months ago
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No movie we wanted to see in the theatres on Xmas so Susan Kaplan made matzah ball soup instead. Lots of it! Happy Holidays.
10 months ago
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Kidnapped Susan Kaplan for a couple of winter hide-away days in a beautiful little beach cottage in Newport. Off season rocks!
10 months ago
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Less Cable News. More Reading. Reimagining Huck’s adventures through the lens of James. Great read.
10 months ago
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It feels to this long-time strategy consultant that McKinsey got away with their wrist slapped ($650M) for their role in the US Opioid Crisis. It’s increasingly difficult for the consulting industry to insulate itself from being legally linked to the business model outcomes of its clients.
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I first said out loud in HBR in 2011 that business models aren’t just for business. Still true.
hbr.org/2011/04/busi...
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Business Models Aren’t Just For Business
During my six years as an accidental bureaucrat, after spending twenty-five years in the private sector, my friends often wondered how I could do it. They routinely asked versions of the question: doe...
https://hbr.org/2011/04/business-models-arent-just-for
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What truly changes the game is when we commit to being better at being better. It’s hard to do and difficult to compete against. Godin
10 months ago
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Euphemism-Of-The-Day: Innovation Troubles. As in Intel is mired in innovation troubles! They aren’t alone.
10 months ago
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Less cable news. More reading. Loved Salvage The Bones by Jasmyn Ward.
10 months ago
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Be still my Papa geek heart. A day with our granddaughter Rory at the Museum of Science, Boston.
11 months ago
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Embrace fuzzy. If you need perfect visibility into the future, you’re limiting the impact and power of your work. Godin
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Innovation junkies have a strong point of view but know that they are missing something. It’s the forever search for the missing puzzle piece that defines true innovators.
11 months ago
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Things I wish I knew earlier in life.
11 months ago
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Youth is our future. It’s not going well. Guns, drugs and car accidents are fueling rising U.S. youth mortality rates.
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Systems problems require systems solutions. What if we could design for the emergence of better, more equitable social systems?
saulkaplan.medium.com/design-for-e...
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Design for Emergence: A Theory of Social System Change
Social systems challenges require social systems solutions. What if we can design for the emergence of new social systems?
https://saulkaplan.medium.com/design-for-emergence-a-theory-of-social-system-change-4fc095b2b24f?sk=0f8df6900cf8081cecc230af837cd878
11 months ago
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In times like these I find the BIF Genome helpful.
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