Benjamin P Taylor
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systems | cybernetics | complexity
public | service | transformation
business evolutionary | avid learner
#wordrotator #poastrationalist
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skeeting personally
public | service | transformation
business evolutionary | avid learner
#wordrotator #poastrationalist
https://chosen-path.org
connect at antlerboy.com
redquadrant.com
publicservicetransformation.org
skeeting personally
Union Jill: the story behind a symbol of protest and alternative Britain www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDsw...
Union Jill: the story behind a symbol of protest and alternative Britain
‘We wanted something that reflected the alternative culture of Britain,’ says Heather, one of the activists behind the Union Jill.
This video tells the story of the creation of the flag, first…
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November 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Union Jill: the story behind a symbol of protest and alternative Britain www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDsw...
Polycrisis: Root Causes and Governance Solutions – Hamalainen (2025) stream.syscoi.com/2025/11/22/p...
Polycrisis: Root Causes and Governance Solutions – Hamalainen (2025)
[This is the preprint version as it’s accessible] 18 Nov 2025 Timo Hamalainen SITRA – Finnish Innovation Fund Date Written: August 28, 2025 Abstract The current polycrisis creates funda…
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November 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Polycrisis: Root Causes and Governance Solutions – Hamalainen (2025) stream.syscoi.com/2025/11/22/p...
Iconoplastic - a made up word for an important idea howtorunacountry.substack.com/p/iconoplast...
Iconoplastic - a made up word for an important idea
Making change survivable for the people who lead it
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November 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Iconoplastic - a made up word for an important idea howtorunacountry.substack.com/p/iconoplast...
Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07] www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6...
Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07]
Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-suburbia-is-subsidized-heres-the-math-st07
Car-dependent suburbia is subsidized by productive urban places. That's why…
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November 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07] www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6...
Local government’s role in place-based work. New Local. www.newlocal.org.uk/articles/loc...
Local government’s role in place-based work - New Local
In a guest post for New Local, co-founder of Stories of Change, John Hitchin, shares his thoughts on the future of place-based work. Local government is all about work in […]
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November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Local government’s role in place-based work. New Local. www.newlocal.org.uk/articles/loc...
On the series of nag screens you have to get through in UK banking to make a payment (fraud risk security theatre), there are options for 'pay a bill' and 'make a purchase' but no option for 'pay salary' or 'pay tax'.
November 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
On the series of nag screens you have to get through in UK banking to make a payment (fraud risk security theatre), there are options for 'pay a bill' and 'make a purchase' but no option for 'pay salary' or 'pay tax'.
Commissioning in the NHS - first as tragedy, then as farce?
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November 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Commissioning in the NHS - first as tragedy, then as farce?
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From ‘care’ to capabilities
From ‘care’ to capabilities
Amartya Sen’s (unfortunately named) ‘capabilities approach’ is a framework for evaluating well-being, development, and social justice based on what people are genuinely able to be…
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November 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
From ‘care’ to capabilities
Lack of planning has hit Labour’s efforts to fix public services, says thinktank www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Lack of planning has hit Labour’s efforts to fix public services, says thinktank
Keir Starmer accused of failing to adequately strategise while in opposition, leading to uncoordinated policymaking
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November 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Lack of planning has hit Labour’s efforts to fix public services, says thinktank www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Why we need to quit ‘fixing’ the world: A cybernetic approach to planetary challenges – podcast/video with Nora Bateson and Hans Busstra stream.syscoi.com/2025/11/17/w...
Why we need to quit ‘fixing’ the world: A cybernetic approach to planetary challenges – podcast/video with Nora Bateson and Hans Busstra
Seeing | Systems Theory | 2025-11-14 Nora Bateson, BA Hans Busstra, MA
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November 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Why we need to quit ‘fixing’ the world: A cybernetic approach to planetary challenges – podcast/video with Nora Bateson and Hans Busstra stream.syscoi.com/2025/11/17/w...
2026 Conference: Systems Thinking and Systems Practice – 24-26/3/2026, University of Hull – full website up, booking open, call for abstracts (talk proposals) stream.syscoi.com/2025/11/19/2...
2026 Conference: Systems Thinking and Systems Practice – 24-26/3/2026, University of Hull – full website up, booking open, call for abstracts (talk proposals)
24–26 March 2026 | University of Hull Hosted by the University of Hull Centre for Systems Studies (CSS), Systems and Complexity in Organisation (SCiO) and The OR Society Call for abstracts This con…
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November 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
2026 Conference: Systems Thinking and Systems Practice – 24-26/3/2026, University of Hull – full website up, booking open, call for abstracts (talk proposals) stream.syscoi.com/2025/11/19/2...
Call for Abstracts: Laws of Form 2026 Conference (LoF26), University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education 10-14 August 2026 stream.syscoi.com/2025/11/18/c...
Call for Abstracts: Laws of Form 2026 Conference (LoF26), University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education 10-14 August 2026
From Randolph Dible: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education Monday 10 August – Friday 14 August 2026 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ, United Kingdom About the Conference Submissions for pa…
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November 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Call for Abstracts: Laws of Form 2026 Conference (LoF26), University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education 10-14 August 2026 stream.syscoi.com/2025/11/18/c...
Job/collaboration opportunity – Scotland’s Digital Inclusion Alliance (DIA) – cross‑sector initiative addressing digital exclusion through systems change. stream.syscoi.com/2025/11/18/j...
Job/collaboration opportunity – Scotland’s Digital Inclusion Alliance (DIA) – cross‑sector initiative addressing digital exclusion through systems change.
[ What’s offered: Role/s to help shape governance, strategy and delivery of the DIA’s model (levers of investment, policy, regulation, convening power) rather than one‑off fixes. Why it matters: Di…
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November 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Job/collaboration opportunity – Scotland’s Digital Inclusion Alliance (DIA) – cross‑sector initiative addressing digital exclusion through systems change. stream.syscoi.com/2025/11/18/j...
I just did an interview for the ONS. I know I'm a weird case but the data structure totally off in understanding of self-employment, running a business, dividends, flexible and mobile working, gig work etc etc etc. Government has systematically got no way to understand my work :-)
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I just did an interview for the ONS. I know I'm a weird case but the data structure totally off in understanding of self-employment, running a business, dividends, flexible and mobile working, gig work etc etc etc. Government has systematically got no way to understand my work :-)
The Girl Who Smelled Pink nautil.us/the-girl-who...
The Girl Who Smelled Pink
A mother wonders if we are all born with synesthesia.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The Girl Who Smelled Pink nautil.us/the-girl-who...
Think-pieces saying ‘commissioning is dead, long live strategic commissioning’ are dead, long live think-pieces saying ‘commissioning is dead, long live strategic commissioning’ www.linkedin.com/posts/antler...
Commissioning Compass: system assessment for change | Benjamin P. Taylor
Think-pieces saying ‘commissioning is dead, long live strategic commissioning’ are dead, long live think-pieces saying ‘commissioning is dead, long live strategic commissioning’ Strategic commissioning...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Think-pieces saying ‘commissioning is dead, long live strategic commissioning’ are dead, long live think-pieces saying ‘commissioning is dead, long live strategic commissioning’ www.linkedin.com/posts/antler...
Why we need to quit ‘fixing’ the world: A cybernetic approach to planetary challenges – podcast/video with Nora Bateson and Hans Busstra stream.syscoi.com/2025/11/17/w...
Why we need to quit ‘fixing’ the world: A cybernetic approach to planetary challenges – podcast/video with Nora Bateson and Hans Busstra
Seeing | Systems Theory | 2025-11-14 Nora Bateson, BA Hans Busstra, MA
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November 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Why we need to quit ‘fixing’ the world: A cybernetic approach to planetary challenges – podcast/video with Nora Bateson and Hans Busstra stream.syscoi.com/2025/11/17/w...
Better Images of AI betterimagesofai.org
Better Images of AI
We are a non-profit creating more realistic and inclusive images of artificial intelligence. Visit our growing repository available for anyone to use for free under CC licences, or just to use as…
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November 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Better Images of AI betterimagesofai.org
Sean Manion on LinkedIn – key pre-cybernetic paperThe Logical Structure of Mind: An Inquiry into the Philosophical Foundation of Psychology & Psychiatry, von Domarus (1934) – and talk Dec 4 at Duquesne University stream.syscoi.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sean Manion on LinkedIn – key pre-cybernetic paperThe Logical Structure of Mind: An Inquiry into the Philosophical Foundation of Psychology & Psychiatry, von Domarus (1934) – and talk Dec 4 at Duquesne University
Please go to LinkedIn link to comment/respond and see the von Domarus dissertation with McCullock intro A key piece of cybernetics pre-history from the early 1930s. “I know of no other text t…
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November 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Sean Manion on LinkedIn – key pre-cybernetic paperThe Logical Structure of Mind: An Inquiry into the Philosophical Foundation of Psychology & Psychiatry, von Domarus (1934) – and talk Dec 4 at Duquesne University stream.syscoi.com/2025/11/16/s...
Continual new posts on the Scybernethics blog stream.syscoi.com/2025/11/16/c...
Continual new posts on the Scybernethics blog
[I never have time to read these but some do look very interesting] Latest Posts (newest to oldest) Scybernethics: Blueprints for Collective Autonomy and Digital Democracy Power, Care and Democrati…
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November 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Continual new posts on the Scybernethics blog stream.syscoi.com/2025/11/16/c...
The CI Movement: Lessons from a Lifetime of Improvement with Charlie Protzman
From Connecting the Dots podscan.fm/podcasts/con...
From Connecting the Dots podscan.fm/podcasts/con...
The CI Movement: Lessons from a Lifetime of Improvement with Charlie Protzman - Connecting the Dots - Podcast Episode - Podscan.fm
Listen to The CI Movement: Lessons from a Lifetime of Improvement with Charlie Protzman from Connecting the Dots (27 min) • Published Oct 30, 2025
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November 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The CI Movement: Lessons from a Lifetime of Improvement with Charlie Protzman
From Connecting the Dots podscan.fm/podcasts/con...
From Connecting the Dots podscan.fm/podcasts/con...
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rough draft systems|complexity|cybernetics reading list | Benjamin P. Taylor | 126 comments
How do you get into systems | complexity | cybernetics? Here's my rough reading list. There are a lot of answers to the question, many of them connecting with some kind of disjointing break from 'normal'...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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The new NHS England strategic commissioning framework is the clearest signal yet that ICBs are expected to be intelligent payors, not just coordinators. The headwinds are strong! So what are some practical steps? www.linkedin.com/posts/antler...
Commissioning Compass: system assessment for change | Benjamin P. Taylor
The new NHS England strategic commissioning framework is the clearest signal yet that ICBs are expected to be intelligent payors, not just coordinators. If done well, this could create the conditions...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The new NHS England strategic commissioning framework is the clearest signal yet that ICBs are expected to be intelligent payors, not just coordinators. The headwinds are strong! So what are some practical steps? www.linkedin.com/posts/antler...
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” www.linkedin.com/posts/antler... How will the new size of unitary councils change the way local policy is made and delivered?
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
How will the new size of unitary councils change the way local policy is made and delivered?
Surrey used to have one of… | Benjamin P. Taylor
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” How will the new size of unitary councils change the way local policy is made and delivered? Surrey used to have one of...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” www.linkedin.com/posts/antler... How will the new size of unitary councils change the way local policy is made and delivered?
Looking for a Larkin poem for my dad's funeral, and Oh Blimey!
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Looking for a Larkin poem for my dad's funeral, and Oh Blimey!