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Eric LawtonI"ve started to go down a level of detail in my book on social systems for a better world. First is a chapter on "Countries in Context", describing the border and interactions with external entities such as other countries, global corporations and the like.Still at a high level; there is too much to say to fit into one chapter. I may just try to finish the book at about this level of detail, then provide additional details on the same site, with links but outside the linear narrative of a book<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialSystems</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/systemsThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#systemsThinking</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/country" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#country</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corporation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarchs</a> <a href="https://ericlawton.org/preface/countries/countries-system-context/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ericlawton.org/preface/countries/countries-system-context/</a>

Eric LawtonI've updated the section "Social Systems Concepts" in my book on changing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialSystems</a>. It introduces a bit of theory, before diving in to analyzing large-scale social systems. Now working on the next chapter, on Global Social Systems.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/systemsThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#systemsThinking</a> <a href="https://ericlawton.org/preface/social-systems/social-systems-concepts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ericlawton.org/preface/social-systems/social-systems-concepts/</a>

Eric LawtonMy new blog post on updates to my book on understanding and changing the world.After five days in hospital, and another five days without power because of an ice storm, I decided it was time to return in earnest to writing.I rewrote the Introduction and the first main section “Humans and Other Persons” and restructured the whole Table of Contents.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialSystems</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/systemsThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#systemsThinking</a> <a href="https://ericlawton.org/2025/04/08/new-first-sections-of-changing-the-world/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ericlawton.org/2025/04/08/new-first-sections-of-changing-the-world/</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SystemsThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SystemsThinking</a> is a challenge for the Creepy Weirdos.

maarten brouwersFor me the highlight of the video is continuous improvement isn't nearly as important as discontinuous improvement (requiring vision / creative thought):<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhcfjE7tJDY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhcfjE7tJDY</a><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/SystemsThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SystemsThinking</a> (found in a slideshow from <a href="https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@RuthMalan</a> )

Cassia 🇨🇦🇩🇰<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/threegoodthings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#threegoodthings</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/3goodthings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#3goodthings</a> 1) watched a really excellent video recording of a Clarendon lecture by Tima Bansal .. can’t wait to see the second! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/Tqs6oI9GEZ4?si=H0JVmsNIcKJLzU5F" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/live/Tqs6oI9GEZ4?si=H0JVmsNIcKJLzU5F</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/systemsthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#systemsthinking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#complexity</a> 2) had a nice teams chat with another friend-colleague with whom I had not spoken in several months 3) my family and friends, and my 🐕 🥰

BarbChamberlainAnyone use the <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Zettelkasten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zettelkasten</a> method of note-taking and knowledge management? Stumbled across it and I'm quite curious about it. I read widely across a lot of topics. No longer in grad school but having a way to organize and cross-reference is really appealing. <a href="https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/</a><a href="https://toot.community/tags/Notetaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Notetaking</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Knowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Knowledge</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/KnowledgeManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KnowledgeManagement</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/SystemsThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SystemsThinking</a>

Rachel has moved...!John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman, has a little contact form on his website mediated by goddamn Squarespace. But I still used it to write to him to ask, "Don't you think the obvious thing is for the left to unite internationally and leverage mass labor and economic power to insist on the institution of a real Global Surplus Recycling Mechanism at the IMF and World Bank now, like John Keynes originally proposed at Bretton Woods?"Quickly, and apparently without much thought, he replied that the IMF and World Bank were dictatorial and not worth our focus in confronting the rise of fascism. BUT THE POINT IS THAT WE USE THE ONLY LEVERAGE WE HAVE AS THE POOR AND WORKING CLASS MASSES TO DEMAND A TRANSFORMATION OF THE TOP DICTATORSHIP SO THAT THERE IS NO LONGER A TOP DICTATORSHIP, AND INSTEAD, A FUNCTIONAL, TRANSPARENT, PUBLIC UNION OF EQUALS THANKS TO FAIR, EGALITARIAN SURPLUS REGULTION, WHICH HAS STILL NOT BEEN TRIED.DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND ME?!<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economics</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InternationalMonetaryPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InternationalMonetaryPolicy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geopolitics</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#peace</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuckWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#justice</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EconomicJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EconomicJustice</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anarchism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#activism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SystemsThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SystemsThinking</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a>

The Old Map GalleryOne time, in a moment that I still can't exactly wrap my mind around, we got to talk to David Snowden. He was the nicest, most genuine & patient genius-of-a-person we've interacted with. By the end he'd made sense of some questions we had, and at the same time we wished he was our neighbor. AND, he's found the topic of mapping useful in wrestling with complex topics. If you'd like new approaches to complex issues, we'd suggest... <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#design</a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/systemsthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#systemsthinking</a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#map</a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SITXkTFHVw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SITXkTFHVw</a>

Isabel RichardsNew paper on the telegraph line is out! It’s a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microhistory</a> of Strangways Springs//Pangki Warruna, exploring its evolution from a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pastoral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pastoral</a> property to a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/telegraph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#telegraph</a> station to a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/railway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#railway</a> stop, and how these transitions shaped innovation in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> 🤩📝We also highlight the importance of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a> in creating and sustaining these innovations (as is the case for technologies of today like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> 😉).<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10761-025-00788-4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10761-025-00788-4</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openaccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#openaccess</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#techhistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/systemsthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#systemsthinking</a>

craque sprung 🏳️‍🌈<a href="https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@RuthMalan</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@AlexPtakhin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@AlexPtakhin</a> Thank you both! If only I could start every Monday like this. <a href="https://c.im/tags/SRE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SRE</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Resilience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resilience</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SystemsThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SystemsThinking</a>

kali<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/systemsthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#systemsthinking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/systemsdynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#systemsdynamics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/systemsengineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#systemsengineering</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/emergence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#emergence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#complexity</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/systemsthinking" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@systemsthinking</a>

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