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Jakub Jurkiewicz and I have been talking for a while about creating an event that feels a little different — less about broadcasting ideas, and more about building them together.

We’re calling it BEACON

🧭 It’s a one-day event for technical leaders
🎤 Talks in the morning to spark ideas
🤝 An unconference in the afternoon to go deeper, together

🌱 Theme: sustainable evolution — thoughtful, ongoing change in teams and systems

📆 When: 13th October 2025
🗺️ Where: Auckland

The event will be catered and ticketed (price TBC)
We’re adding to the ecosystem with something more participatory.

If you’re curious, add your email here:
📩 forms.gle/KcFvGyESGbU8w6Wr7

Please boost for reach 😁

#TechLeadership #systemsThinking
#Aoteaora #tamakimakarau #newZealand

Google DocsBeacon is coming - are you interested?Beacon - Shining a light on the future of tech leadership. A gathering for tech leaders who want to create the future together. Part talks, part open sessions, part guided discussion. No fluff. No hype. Just space to connect, ask deep questions, and shape what’s next. When: 13th October 2025 Where: Auckland Organisers: Jakub Jurkiewicz (Tech Waka), Andrea Magnorsky (Model Bridge, Virtual DDD) Sustainable evolution happens at the intersection of systems, teams, and intent. BEACON is a one-day event for leaders working across engineering, product, architecture, and people practices — anyone responsible for shaping how technology organisations evolve. The morning features six expert speakers, sharing frameworks, success stories and failures around leading with intention: from system migration to culture rewiring. The afternoon is an unconference — participant-led and peer-driven, focused on real problems and impactful conversations. If you're navigating change with technical depth and human nuance, BEACON is for you. This event will be catered and ticketed (TBC amount).

🎯 The housing crisis will not be solved with money alone.
🎯 It’s not a numbers problem — it’s a systems problem.
🎯 And pouring money into a broken system just breaks it faster.

We’ve built a system that makes it hard to create the kind of modest, incremental, people-scaled housing our communities actually need and then we act surprised when affordability collapses.
strongtowns.org/journal/2025/6

Strong TownsHousing Is Not a Numbers Problem—It’s a Systems ProblemWhen we recognize the housing crisis as a systems and strategy problem, we realize that there is no shortage of things cities can do right now to address it.

Functional detachment... in an age of Systemic disintegration:

In an era saturated with information yet starved of wisdom, there exists a cognitive threshold - quietly crossed - where the accumulation of knowledge ceases to be empowering and becomes corrosive.

This state, which may be termed functional detachment, arises when the mind, confronted by the scale of systemic contradiction, undergoes a silent rupture. It is not a breakdown. It is the consequence of seeing too clearly.

To live in modern society is to endure a relentless dissonance. One must accept ecological destruction as progress, political corruption as governance, economic exploitation as growth, and curated illusion as truth.

Institutions meant to protect and inform instead obscure and mislead. Even language is repurposed.. weaponised to conceal intent and maintain power. Under such conditions, clarity becomes a burden.

Functional detachment is not apathy or despair. It is the body’s refusal to participate in cognitive and moral falsehoods that no longer reconcile. It begins with hyper-systemic awareness: the capacity to perceive not isolated failures but the interwoven dysfunction of economic, ecological, social, and informational domains. Solutions address symptoms, not causes. Narratives conceal the logic of their own reproduction. Institutions demand submission to illusion.

This state is glimpsed across disciplines. In psychology, it resembles dissociation under extreme stress. In philosophy, it evokes existential nausea.. a collapse of meaning structures. In systems theory, it mirrors epistemic crisis: the moment when contradiction overwhelms coherence.

Society does not accommodate such awareness. It pathologises it.. calling it cynicism, dysfunction, or pessimism. But this is a reversal. The dysfunction lies not in the individual who detaches from corrupted systems but in the systems that demand complicity in contradiction.

Yet if left unexamined, functional detachment risks hardening into paralysis. Seeing everything as broken can neutralise dissent and isolate those who see. The task is not to restore belief in collapsing structures but to build new modes of orientation. Not to rejoin the spectacle, but to stand outside it and create new forms of sense-making, connection, and resistance.

This requires a cognitive ethic:

One that embraces truth without collapsing into nihilism.
One that accepts decay without mistaking it for destiny.
One that sees clearly - and acts anyway.

To live lucidly now is to reject complicity. Not to retreat into apathy, but to cultivate strategic clarity. Functional detachment is not an end. It is a threshold.. the beginning of a post-illusion life.

From here, one does not retreat. One reorients.

In my STEM studies, the content is typically objective, factual, mechanical, and devoid of humanity.

More recently, first through #leanthinking, and then into #agile, #systemsthinking, #industrialengineering, I've come to realize that engineering with humanity creates progress for everyone, for the long term.

Thinkers like Galbraith, Follett, and Matthews show us a fair path, showing the bigger picture and putting humanity over profits.

IMHO, @debcha belongs in that same pantheon.

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Suite du fil

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
"A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.
"You have to start over with a working, simple system."
—John Gall, 1975

cited and explained by @baldur there: baldurbjarnason.com/courses/ye

www.baldurbjarnason.comYellow
Plus via Baldur Bjarnason
#book#systems#MVP

I"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

#SocialSystems #systemsThinking
#country #corporation #oligarchs

ericlawton.org/preface/countri

Creating a Better World · Countries in ContextCountries Are Historical AccidentsBordersBorder ControlsExternal Interested PartiesOther CountriesCorporationsOligarchsInternational Governance OrganisationsThe Global PublicCountries and the Globa…

My 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.

#writing #SocialSystems #systemsThinking

ericlawton.org/2025/04/08/new-

Creating a Better World · New First Sections of “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 sectio…

Compendium of Nancy Leveson: STAMP, STPA, CAST and Systems Thinking

Although I don’t often mention or post about Leveson’s work, she’s probably been the most influential thinker on my approach after Barry Turner.

So here is a mini-compendium covering some of Leveson’s work.

Feel free to shout a coffee if you’d like to support the growth of my site:

https://buymeacoffee.com/benhutchinson

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/2908/Engineering-a-Safer-WorldSystems-Thinking-Applied

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https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/108102/Leveson_Applying%20systems.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y

https://escholarship.org/content/qt5dr206s3/qt5dr206s3_noSplash_4453efa62859a16d187fa5e66d414ac2.pdf

https://escholarship.org/content/qt8dg859ns/qt8dg859ns_noSplash_e67040b78c1ff72e51b682bb23d8628a.pdf

https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840608101478

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=b2107d4823fa8b3eb83ecc8db006e8aecfe2994a

https://doi.org/10.1145/7474.7528

http://therm.ward.bay.wiki.org/assets/pages/documents-archived/safety-3.pdf

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https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/108601/Leveson_A%20systems%20approach.pdf

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=57bd4861d6819bdd6543e3a8ca841aa0b98bbe5a

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/Rasmussen-Legacy.pdf

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00140139.2015.1015623

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=08434b0b1eba947fb7251be7daba9c50eab2e8d2

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/issc03-stpa.doc

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/92371/Leveson-Stephanopoulos%20final%20copy.pdf?sequence=1

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/92371/Leveson-Stephanopoulos%20final%20copy.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2018.07.028

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/shell-moerdijk-cast.pdf

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/CAST-Handbook.pdf

https://psas.scripts.mit.edu/home/get_file.php?name=STPA_Handbook.pdf

https://psas.scripts.mit.edu/home/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/JThomas-STPA-Introduction.pdf

https://cris.vtt.fi/ws/portalfiles/portal/98296189/Complete_with_DocuSign_2024-1-2_STPA_guide_F.pdf

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/79639/Leveson_Modeling%20and%20hazard.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/116713/INCOSE2017_Yisug%20Kwon_no%20UTC%20info.pdf?sequence=1

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/UPS-CAST-Final.pdf

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2023.100912

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/107502/974705860-MIT.pdf?sequence=1

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nektarios-Karanikas/publication/356085051_The_past_and_present_of_System-Theoretic_Accident_Model_And_Processes_STAMP_and_its_associated_techniques_A_scoping_review/links/6191925ad7d1af224bef6b04/The-past-and-present-of-System-Theoretic-Accident-Model-And-Processes-STAMP-and-its-associated-techniques-A-scoping-review.pdf

https://proceedings.systemdynamics.org/2007/proceed/papers/DULAC552.pdf

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/nasa-class/jsr-final.pdf

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2556938

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00140139.2015.1015623

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/102833/esd-wp-2011-13.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/79639/Leveson_Modeling%20and%20hazard.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=3a04c89efd23efda86f134e0e2f0683394a181c6

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705815038588/pdf?md5=78fccb436abe513b814fb520d01e209e&pid=1-s2.0-S1877705815038588-main.pdf

https://academic.oup.com/jamia/article-abstract/15/3/272/727503?redirectedFrom=PDF

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/115366/16-1-18%20J%20Pt%20Safety%20Leveson%20%26%20Raman%20CAST_Checklist_JPtSafety2016%20%281%29.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/106665/Leveson_Application%20of%20systems.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

https://www.academia.edu/29657886/The_systems_approach_to_medicine_controversy_and_misconceptions

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3376127

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022522316000702

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/caib/issc-bl-2.pdf

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/ARP4761-Comparison-Report-final-1.pdf

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8102762

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00140139.2015.1011241

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1260/2040-2295.3.3.391

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=d39a0850269262753d27f659243de73eb8bc8e13

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=7e822452213a80be9bc7a5a7f5c13032c6fdd60f

https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/41716/978-3-030-47229-0.pdf?sequence=1#page=25

https://maritimesafetyinnovationlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/White-Paper-on-Approaches-to-Safety-Engineering-Leveson-2003.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221526167_Using_System_Dynamics_for_Safety_and_Risk_Management_in_Complex_Engineering_Systems

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/incose-04.pdf

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https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/59813/leveson_The%20Need%20for%20New.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y

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https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20230017753/downloads/Kopeikin_AIAA_UnsafeCollabControl_v5.pdf

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/accidents/space2001-version2.pdf

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/90801/891583966-MIT.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/Bow-tie-final.pdf

https://cs.emis.de/LNI/Proceedings/Proceedings232/597.pdf

https://a3e.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Risk-Matrix.pdf

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=a6b1e3482543a0116a5666e22956e773e953d682

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http://sunnyday.mit.edu/compliance-with-882.pdf

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https://meridian.allenpress.com/bit/article-pdf/47/2/115/1488089/0899-8205-47_2_115.pdf

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