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...

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...

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...

A few quick thoughts on Iberia’s recent blackout and what this means for how we govern through complexity.
→ 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...

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

The BridgingDictionary by the MIT's Center for Constructive Communication is very nice. And very duh.
bridgingdictionary.org

'I for one welcome our new MAGA overlords.'

2025 already feels like a car crash in slow motion.

ht @fry69.dev

"Blaupause für ein Ministerium für digitale Transformation" → sehr interessanter Vorschlag zu Aufgaben, Struktur Voraussetzungen für ein #Digitalministerium von F5:

buendnis-f5.de/publikatione...

Sometimes I meet with a friend on the internet and we play each other strange noise music. Like so: www.mixcloud.com/AgainstMetho...

✨New Show online!✨
Against Method 003 w/ Kenny Garrett, David S Ware, Merzbow & Keiji Haino, Cassie Kinoshi, Josh Johnson, LaRussel,...

→ www.mixcloud.com/AgainstMetho...

Happy 10th anniversary Door of Perception!
Been following this 'archive of re-enchantment' for years now → highly recommend.
doorofperception.com

AI-powered-always-on-recorder-necklace anyone?

Please, don’t make me make this a thread… 🫠