#Systems

As an equity coach/antiracism facilitator who currently works primarily in/with privileged international schools, I’ve found myself in a time loop of the same conversation based in the same question, “how
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"It's like someone took a sieve and ran school through it, straining it of all of the parts I like."A high school student, overheard describing the shift to online learning.
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Product versus systems thinking:PT: fix the small problemsST: do NOT fix the small problems (Explains a lot about where tech companies are trouncing incumbents, versus where incumbents just get more
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Sustainability threshold concept #1: Complexity. This means: seeing the world as interconnected systems, not simple arrangements of cause and effect. Outcomes are emergent and synergistic, not additive and predictable (1/n)
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Why The HeadStart Project? Healthcare systems across the world are different - not only in terms of how medicine is practiced eg : residents pre-rounding before consultant rounds but also
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on Risk Society & 'risk-management': Contemporary society is organized around mitigating/dealing with 'risk' - not that society is increasingly risky. It means most of the things we are implementing are
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The way many people get lonely when they age is not pretty to watch at all. It's not only a loneliness that's caused by the inability to physically go meet
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Hot takes about Cobol are overlooking the fact that this is sustainable software - sure, there is a developer shortage when systems require rapid changes, and scaling is challenging with
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100X this!An elevator pitch is only possible when it's just an aggregation of references to huge systems of previously held beliefs.If pitching something where 1 of the referenced systems doesn't
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Many enterprise IT departments have become big fans of an “API-first“ strategy. I think that in general, this is a bad idea. (Thread) When you start with APIs, you really
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thread about did/osdd1 since a lot of people don't understand it:/safe , singlets retweet the only thing that encouraged me to make this thread was a comment i saw on
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As a BIWoC who works in sports media, I am expunging *three* words from my vocabulary: "unity" and "division" and "diversity". Allow me to explain. Sports don't "unite". Sports have
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Okay, y’all, I’ve been wanting to discuss this for awhile & as we are all reflecting on societal change & challenging previous systems that keep marginalized voices silenced…this seems as
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Q for the day: what is the most important question we should ask about our food (or our food systems)? #FoodEthicsPS you’re only allowed ONE question - and no need
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Lately I have spoken with several people interested in building systems to help policymakers and practitioners leverage research to improve their decision-making in education. This has made me think a
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#AfricanLivesMatter A young attorney asked me to mentor him. I sent him 10 books on politics, economics , business leadership & history and asked him to read before our first
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