systems thinking54

about systems and complexity

fabrice liut

Part of what I feel is important right now is to be in the system and to be creating these pockets and spaces and kind of stretching the constraints o

It’s also important to acknowledge that the systems change or innovation scene is not the only place where change and innovation is happening. Real ch

Complex Systems42

Complex systems are systems where the collective behavior of their parts entails emergence of properties that can hardly, if not at all, be inferred from properties of the parts.

Jason Badeaux

“leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in on

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System

why curation...163
sari

we’ve always been influenced in what we find beautiful or valuable or important, of course, but what’s new is the speed at which one is inundated with

You can use algorithms to surface new things. But algorithms are not nearly as good as human curators yet. Whatever pattern matching is going on insid

But there’s a difference between collecting and curating.With collecting, building the collection itself is often the end goal. Not so with curating.

information diet management37
Sixian

# on shortification of "learning" There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely the

Avoid content made after 2016 - Something happened in 2016. The internet became less weird, less creative. Whatever the cause, pre-2016 content has a

Neuroscience96
Abie Cohen

many of the quant-ities related to suffering are based on perceptions and similar uncertain infer-ences. The uncertainty will necessarily increase fru

Scientists have demonstrated that, as the years go by, much of what we think we remember is false. It seems our brains can't store every detail we exp

High Performance Lifestyle21
Johanna
sleep15
Fernando del Campo

LY Corporation has been digging through the data for Pokémon Sleep, and the overall results show that users have been resting easy and well since the

Two weeks of 20-minute yoga nidra sessions led to a higher percentage of delta-waves in deep sleep and better memory, decision-making, and abstraction

The study found that mindfulness helped the nurses experience fewer negative emotions and less rumination — repetitive negative thinking.

Mental Health234
sari

Overthinking is always pointing at a deeper unmet need — the topic, as urgent as it feels, is just the form the need assumes when it can’t be felt. U

One of my favorite quotes in psychoanalysis, from Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok: "What haunts are not the dead, but the gaps left within us by the s

Neverrr neverrrr look desperate in life. Remain calm during hard times. Understand it’s just your time to suffer like every great man before you.

“The strongest version of you is buried under the habits you're afraid to break.”

memory37
Sixian

Given the large degree to which metaphors from digital technologies shape our understanding of memory, it’s surprising that our images of memory are s

health29
Fernando del Campo

@lilytea3 2 months ago 0:43:

I’ve learned that this world has no commitments to my body. No one will try to understand it more than I will. I learned the necessity not only of lis

exercise9
Fernando del Campo

Gaining a deeper understanding of what we want is crucial to embracing exercise in an enjoyable and effective way. It’s hard to enjoy exercise if ther

A systematic review recently published in Mental Health and Physical Activity analyzed the results of 35 studies to look at the combined effects of mi

15) Family walks after meals should be non negotiable. They improve insulin sensitivity, recovery from workouts, and overall mood. 16) Hydration start