System Change

Systemic change is generally understood to require adjustments or transformations in the policies, practices, power dynamics, social norms or mindsets that underlie the societal issue at stake. It often involves the collaboration of a diverse set of players and can take place on a local, national or global level.

Adam Zeiner and

When we seek to intervene in any system created by someone, it’s not enough to view their decisions and choices simply as the consequences of first-order thinking because we can inadvertently create serious problems. Before changing anything, we should wonder whether they were using second-order thinking. Their reasons for making certain choices... See more

fs.blog • Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking - Farnam Street

Sam Liebeskind

Co-Impact

co-impact.org

Adam Zeiner

Exploring where impediments are hard, where they are soft and when they can be ignored is powerful.

Stephanie Dinkins • Afro-Now-Ism

Keely Adler

Burnout, then, is an outcome of an interaction between burnout producing environmental factors and individually susceptible workers.

Justin D. Henderson • Self-Care is Not the Solution for Burnout

Keely Adler

What we need are visions of the future of technology that are values-driven, but we don’t need just design fictions. We need business model fictions, engineering feasibility study fictions, interop protocol specification fictions, investment return fictions.

Matt Webb • Towards the Orthogonal Technology Lab, V0.1

Keely Adler

Post capitalism is not simply another ‘ism’ to replace previous ideologies; it is a conceptual container for social pluralities based on shared values (e.g. reciprocity, altruism, cooperation, gifting, equity consciousness, empathy, interbeing and solidarity with all Life). It stems from the shortcomings of the existing system and the lived