Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #95

6 min readJul 21, 2023

This week:

Community
Influential thinkers
Systems Thinking
Systems and complexity in organisation

Link Collection:

My Weekly Blog post:

During my university days, I was involved in a wonderful initiative called K.E.E.N. (Kids Enjoy Exercise Now), which brought together disabled kids, students, and siblings. We gathered every Saturday to play sports and games, providing respite for parents and enjoyment for all involved. What made it truly special was that it wasn’t just charity; it created a community of equals, where people volunteered for the joy and fulfillment it brought us.

What’s the difference between #charity and #community?

A closed loop — the DNA helix gave 20th-century biology its symbol. But the more we learn, the more life circles back to an older image — Davies (2014), Aeon

Three jobs: Systems Researcher/Practitioner — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK

Congestion in highways when tolls and railroads matter: Evidence from European cities — Garcia-López et al, 2020

Influential Thinkers: Donella Meadows — Geoff Marlow

The Jim Rutt Show EP 191 Alicia Juarrero on Context, Constraints, and Coherence

https://www.jimruttshow.com/alicia-juarrero/

Jim talks with Alicia Juarrero about her new book Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence. They discuss Aristotle’s four causes, applying them to complex dynamical systems, the overfocus on efficient cause, naive Newtonianism, nothing-but-ism, reconceptualizing causality in terms of constraints, mereology, constraint regimes, ascribing causal powers to emergent properties, the roots of panpsychism, Searle’s comparison of consciousness with digestion, kinds of constraints, the Dysons’ notion of analog control, why analog is more efficient, identity as a set of interdependent constraints, surface vs deep dyslexia & early neural nets, the work of Geoffrey Hinton, the species competitive exclusion principle, cardinality vs ordinality, the social evolution of cassava, Rayleigh-Benard convection, dissipative systems, Alicia’s disagreement with Michael Polanyi, the architecture of the circulatory system, scaffolding, top-down causality, many-to-one transitions, degeneracy, pluripotentiality, the ship of Theseus, 4E cognitive science, and much more.

Systems Thinking — a different way of looking at the work — Lightning Talk 2021 version — Sally Bean

Uploaded Oct. 9, 2022

Science

A talk that attempts to explain the essence of systems thinking using a bicycle.

sallybean https://www.slideshare.net/sallybean/systems-thinking-lightning-talk-2021-versionpdf?from_action=follow

Always a bunch of fantastic events coming up from SCiO — systems and complexity in organisation:
Events | SCiO https://www.systemspractice.org/events

Events | SCiOwww.systemspractice.org

A funeral for fish and chips: why are Britain’s chippies disappearing? https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/jul/20/a-funeral-for-fish-and-chips-east-neuk-fife-anstruther-scotland

For the poorest, the cost-of-living crisis is worse than it officially looks https://wearecitizensadvice.org.uk/for

Cormac Russell Plenary Presentation — Quality Forum 2023 — Health Quality BC

Just came across this — exciting! There’s a version for sale and also a free version — bargain!

Communities of practice — within and across organizations: a guidebook — Etienne Wenger-Trayner, Beverley Wenger-Trayner, Phil Reid, Clause Bruderlin
https://www.wenger-trayner.com/cop-guidebook

- wenger-traynerwenger-trayner — Social learning theorists and consultants

Border Force classing child asylum seekers as adults, giving them new dates of birth in minutes https://inews.co.uk/news/border-force-child-asylum-seekers-adults-new-dates-birth-2472245

Border Force classing child asylum seekers as adults, giving them new dates of birth in minutesinews.co.uk

Very important, though I would argue that we’ve been at this threshold for about five or six years (and that apparent stability increases rather than decreases the risk and seriousness. And I would argue (a bit) against an emergency rescue package, too — we’ve been propping up and making do for at least that long, it needs to be addressed structurally.

Local authorities need an emergency rescue package https://www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/regional-development/2023/07/council-rescue-package-finance-bankruptcy