Simon Höher
@simonhoeher.com
Systems Change Lead @ darkmatterlabs.org
Public Design @ simonhoeher.com
I like weird astro-jazz.
Public Design @ simonhoeher.com
I like weird astro-jazz.
Four quick thoughts on Zohran Mamdani’s victory:
1. Leaders as catalysts:
A healthy reminder of the first rule of politics: A charismatic, authentic human is necessary for any movement to take root. Good leaders aren't saviours, they are convenors who make visible what was already trying to emerge.
1. Leaders as catalysts:
A healthy reminder of the first rule of politics: A charismatic, authentic human is necessary for any movement to take root. Good leaders aren't saviours, they are convenors who make visible what was already trying to emerge.
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Four quick thoughts on Zohran Mamdani’s victory:
1. Leaders as catalysts:
A healthy reminder of the first rule of politics: A charismatic, authentic human is necessary for any movement to take root. Good leaders aren't saviours, they are convenors who make visible what was already trying to emerge.
1. Leaders as catalysts:
A healthy reminder of the first rule of politics: A charismatic, authentic human is necessary for any movement to take root. Good leaders aren't saviours, they are convenors who make visible what was already trying to emerge.
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Kurze Zusammenfassung für alle, denen das jetzt etwas viel wird: Die CDU Berlin vergibt willkürlich Gelder für Antisemitismus-Bekämpfung, u.a. an eine Immobilienfirma mit Geschäftsführer Max Mustermann oder auch an die Kollegin des haushaltspolitischen Sprechers im Parteivorstand Lichterfelde. 1/4
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Kurze Zusammenfassung für alle, denen das jetzt etwas viel wird: Die CDU Berlin vergibt willkürlich Gelder für Antisemitismus-Bekämpfung, u.a. an eine Immobilienfirma mit Geschäftsführer Max Mustermann oder auch an die Kollegin des haushaltspolitischen Sprechers im Parteivorstand Lichterfelde. 1/4
New Probe: Just because we can choose, it does not mean there are no consequences to our choices.
On world making, objectivity, and responsibility.
A way forward for designing public institutions in an age of doubts.
→ open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
On world making, objectivity, and responsibility.
A way forward for designing public institutions in an age of doubts.
→ open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
August 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
New Probe: Just because we can choose, it does not mean there are no consequences to our choices.
On world making, objectivity, and responsibility.
A way forward for designing public institutions in an age of doubts.
→ open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
On world making, objectivity, and responsibility.
A way forward for designing public institutions in an age of doubts.
→ open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
New Post: The most sophisticated thing our organisations do isn’t solving complex problems. It’s making them look simple.
The use of the many frameworks to grasp complexity is conversational:
“Seek for simplicity but distrust it.” - Whitehead
→ open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
The use of the many frameworks to grasp complexity is conversational:
“Seek for simplicity but distrust it.” - Whitehead
→ open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
August 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
New Post: The most sophisticated thing our organisations do isn’t solving complex problems. It’s making them look simple.
The use of the many frameworks to grasp complexity is conversational:
“Seek for simplicity but distrust it.” - Whitehead
→ open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
The use of the many frameworks to grasp complexity is conversational:
“Seek for simplicity but distrust it.” - Whitehead
→ open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
The ease with which major (German) media now seamlessly switch from enabling Gaza's destruction to reporting on it with “deep concern” is breathtaking in its shamelessness.
This is no accident. This is trauma politics in action.
And it is very coherent. 1/4
This is no accident. This is trauma politics in action.
And it is very coherent. 1/4
July 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The ease with which major (German) media now seamlessly switch from enabling Gaza's destruction to reporting on it with “deep concern” is breathtaking in its shamelessness.
This is no accident. This is trauma politics in action.
And it is very coherent. 1/4
This is no accident. This is trauma politics in action.
And it is very coherent. 1/4
We are witnessing a new form of politics.
One that flipped the script of shame, decency, and virtue.
It makes transgression a guiding principle for how we govern, and renders any response to it structurally inadequate.
This is trauma politics.
One that flipped the script of shame, decency, and virtue.
It makes transgression a guiding principle for how we govern, and renders any response to it structurally inadequate.
This is trauma politics.
Trauma Politics
From Never Again to Ever Again
open.substack.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:50 AM
We are witnessing a new form of politics.
One that flipped the script of shame, decency, and virtue.
It makes transgression a guiding principle for how we govern, and renders any response to it structurally inadequate.
This is trauma politics.
One that flipped the script of shame, decency, and virtue.
It makes transgression a guiding principle for how we govern, and renders any response to it structurally inadequate.
This is trauma politics.
My talk on ‘Unthinkable Futures’ from #FutureDays in Lisbon is online!
If you like futures, glitches and parasites → www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAq...
If you like futures, glitches and parasites → www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAq...
Simon Höher at Future Days 2025
YouTube video by Future Days
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July 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
My talk on ‘Unthinkable Futures’ from #FutureDays in Lisbon is online!
If you like futures, glitches and parasites → www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAq...
If you like futures, glitches and parasites → www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAq...
Ant mills are odd: everyone follows the rules but the system is collectively stuck. Without intervention they spiral to death.
What could this mean for democracies?
What happens when rules designed to maintain a system cause its undoing?
→ New post up now: simonhoeher.substack.com/p/death-by-d...
What could this mean for democracies?
What happens when rules designed to maintain a system cause its undoing?
→ New post up now: simonhoeher.substack.com/p/death-by-d...
May 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Ant mills are odd: everyone follows the rules but the system is collectively stuck. Without intervention they spiral to death.
What could this mean for democracies?
What happens when rules designed to maintain a system cause its undoing?
→ New post up now: simonhoeher.substack.com/p/death-by-d...
What could this mean for democracies?
What happens when rules designed to maintain a system cause its undoing?
→ New post up now: simonhoeher.substack.com/p/death-by-d...
A few quick thoughts on Iberia’s recent blackout and what this means for how we govern through complexity.
→ open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
→ open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
May 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A few quick thoughts on Iberia’s recent blackout and what this means for how we govern through complexity.
→ open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
→ open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
My latest post is up:
From interventions to intersections → how to move beyond the binary and back.
open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
From interventions to intersections → how to move beyond the binary and back.
open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
April 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
My latest post is up:
From interventions to intersections → how to move beyond the binary and back.
open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
From interventions to intersections → how to move beyond the binary and back.
open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
PSA: 📣
Ende März bieten wir wieder unseren Kurs Öffentliche Innovation Neu Denken an: Grundlagen, Methoden und viel Praxis für systemisches Arbeiten.
Mit tollen Speaker:innen, einer kleinen, feinen Kohorte und viel Einblicke in die Praxis.
(Viel) mehr Infos → protocol.ghost.io/offentliche-...
Ende März bieten wir wieder unseren Kurs Öffentliche Innovation Neu Denken an: Grundlagen, Methoden und viel Praxis für systemisches Arbeiten.
Mit tollen Speaker:innen, einer kleinen, feinen Kohorte und viel Einblicke in die Praxis.
(Viel) mehr Infos → protocol.ghost.io/offentliche-...
Öffentliche Innovation Neu Denken
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Lerne Veränderung systemisch zu gestalten – mit internationalen Expert:innen in einem kompakten Online-Kurs im März und April 2025.
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March 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
PSA: 📣
Ende März bieten wir wieder unseren Kurs Öffentliche Innovation Neu Denken an: Grundlagen, Methoden und viel Praxis für systemisches Arbeiten.
Mit tollen Speaker:innen, einer kleinen, feinen Kohorte und viel Einblicke in die Praxis.
(Viel) mehr Infos → protocol.ghost.io/offentliche-...
Ende März bieten wir wieder unseren Kurs Öffentliche Innovation Neu Denken an: Grundlagen, Methoden und viel Praxis für systemisches Arbeiten.
Mit tollen Speaker:innen, einer kleinen, feinen Kohorte und viel Einblicke in die Praxis.
(Viel) mehr Infos → protocol.ghost.io/offentliche-...
Schon wieder
Der Aufstieg der NSDAP/AfD
datajournal.org
February 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Is Foresight a problem!? 🔮
My first post is up!
This one is about why we should stop imagining desirable / critical / indigenous futures
– and start looking for glitches instead.
→ open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
My first post is up!
This one is about why we should stop imagining desirable / critical / indigenous futures
– and start looking for glitches instead.
→ open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
Unthinkable Futures
The New is Beyond Prediction
open.substack.com
February 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Is Foresight a problem!? 🔮
My first post is up!
This one is about why we should stop imagining desirable / critical / indigenous futures
– and start looking for glitches instead.
→ open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
My first post is up!
This one is about why we should stop imagining desirable / critical / indigenous futures
– and start looking for glitches instead.
→ open.substack.com/pub/simonhoe...
Reposted by Simon Höher
Wir haben die Schikanen der Polizei Berlin der letzten Wochen nicht an die große Glocke gehängt: Weil wir keine Absicht dahinter vermuteten. Seit gestern wissen wir: Die Polizei hat systematisch ALLES daran gesetzt in den letzten 30 Tagen, den Adenauer SRP+ zu verhindern! Ein Thread zum SKANDAL! 🧵
February 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Wir haben die Schikanen der Polizei Berlin der letzten Wochen nicht an die große Glocke gehängt: Weil wir keine Absicht dahinter vermuteten. Seit gestern wissen wir: Die Polizei hat systematisch ALLES daran gesetzt in den letzten 30 Tagen, den Adenauer SRP+ zu verhindern! Ein Thread zum SKANDAL! 🧵
When faced with crises, we escape to the future: We dream up positive, desirable, even critical futures to strive for—or brace for darker ones. It's how we orient our choices, set our priorities, find something worth fighting for.
February 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
When faced with crises, we escape to the future: We dream up positive, desirable, even critical futures to strive for—or brace for darker ones. It's how we orient our choices, set our priorities, find something worth fighting for.
Ideas evolve, recombine – and sometimes, they’re worth picking up again.
I’m starting Permutations: longer reads, slower thoughts on systems, democracy, design and justice.
First post is up today! Next one drops tomorrow.
If this sounds fun, have a look—or even subscribe:
simonhoeher.substack.com
I’m starting Permutations: longer reads, slower thoughts on systems, democracy, design and justice.
First post is up today! Next one drops tomorrow.
If this sounds fun, have a look—or even subscribe:
simonhoeher.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Ideas evolve, recombine – and sometimes, they’re worth picking up again.
I’m starting Permutations: longer reads, slower thoughts on systems, democracy, design and justice.
First post is up today! Next one drops tomorrow.
If this sounds fun, have a look—or even subscribe:
simonhoeher.substack.com
I’m starting Permutations: longer reads, slower thoughts on systems, democracy, design and justice.
First post is up today! Next one drops tomorrow.
If this sounds fun, have a look—or even subscribe:
simonhoeher.substack.com
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Wahlkampfversprechen bleiben (aus verschiedensten Gründen) oft einfach nur Versprechen und was im Koalitionsvertag steht, wird auch nicht immer umgesetzt.
Beim Real-o-Maten könnt Ihr Eure Erwartungen an die Parteien damit vergleichen, wie die Sie tatsächlich abgestimmt haben.
Beim Real-o-Maten könnt Ihr Eure Erwartungen an die Parteien damit vergleichen, wie die Sie tatsächlich abgestimmt haben.
Real-O-Mat
Reality-Check statt Wahlversprechen. Positionier’ dich zu 20 politischen Forderungen und finde raus: Mit welcher Wahl wird’s auch real?
real-o-mat.de
January 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Wahlkampfversprechen bleiben (aus verschiedensten Gründen) oft einfach nur Versprechen und was im Koalitionsvertag steht, wird auch nicht immer umgesetzt.
Beim Real-o-Maten könnt Ihr Eure Erwartungen an die Parteien damit vergleichen, wie die Sie tatsächlich abgestimmt haben.
Beim Real-o-Maten könnt Ihr Eure Erwartungen an die Parteien damit vergleichen, wie die Sie tatsächlich abgestimmt haben.
NTS In Focus w/ Arvo Pärt is perfection.
www.nts.live/shows/in-foc...
www.nts.live/shows/in-foc...
In Focus: Arvo Pärt 10th January 2025
Playing Christian Traditional, Minimalism, Classical.
www.nts.live
January 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
NTS In Focus w/ Arvo Pärt is perfection.
www.nts.live/shows/in-foc...
www.nts.live/shows/in-foc...
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Auch in diesem Jahr wird das #rp25 Programmteam bei der #CfP Auswertung von unseren Track Teams unterstützt.
Wir stellen sie euch ab heute vor. Los geht’s mit unseren Expert*innen zum Themenschwerpunkt #Politik und #Gesellschaft
🔗 re-publica.com/de/news/die-...
Wir stellen sie euch ab heute vor. Los geht’s mit unseren Expert*innen zum Themenschwerpunkt #Politik und #Gesellschaft
🔗 re-publica.com/de/news/die-...
January 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Auch in diesem Jahr wird das #rp25 Programmteam bei der #CfP Auswertung von unseren Track Teams unterstützt.
Wir stellen sie euch ab heute vor. Los geht’s mit unseren Expert*innen zum Themenschwerpunkt #Politik und #Gesellschaft
🔗 re-publica.com/de/news/die-...
Wir stellen sie euch ab heute vor. Los geht’s mit unseren Expert*innen zum Themenschwerpunkt #Politik und #Gesellschaft
🔗 re-publica.com/de/news/die-...
A few thoughts on #Interpassivity - such a fascinating idea: we outsource our emotional and intellectual engagement to others, experiencing life through their proxy rather than direct involvement.
January 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A few thoughts on #Interpassivity - such a fascinating idea: we outsource our emotional and intellectual engagement to others, experiencing life through their proxy rather than direct involvement.
The BridgingDictionary by the MIT's Center for Constructive Communication is very nice. And very duh.
bridgingdictionary.org
bridgingdictionary.org
January 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The BridgingDictionary by the MIT's Center for Constructive Communication is very nice. And very duh.
bridgingdictionary.org
bridgingdictionary.org
Tragedy of the non-commons.
“Will pay any amount.”
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
January 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Tragedy of the non-commons.
'I for one welcome our new MAGA overlords.'
2025 already feels like a car crash in slow motion.
ht @fry69.dev
2025 already feels like a car crash in slow motion.
ht @fry69.dev
January 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
'I for one welcome our new MAGA overlords.'
2025 already feels like a car crash in slow motion.
ht @fry69.dev
2025 already feels like a car crash in slow motion.
ht @fry69.dev
20 bucks for a decade of gaslighting is god-tier levels of putting your money where your mouth is. 💀
"The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri's alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items like Air Jordans or brands like Olive Garden"
Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M
Apple users may get $20 each for up to five Siri-enabled devices.
arstechnica.com
January 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
20 bucks for a decade of gaslighting is god-tier levels of putting your money where your mouth is. 💀