Marcus Jenal

so long and thanks for all the fish

I just wrote 'Meeting in our humanity'. buttondown.email/systemicinsigh…

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Realising that one of the reasons it’s difficult to do third horizons work is because all of the measures and indicators of success (which funders care about) are firmly rooted in the second horizon

How we are planning to use systemic enquiries. buttondown.email/systemicinsigh…

Intelligence and adaptability buttondown.email/systemicinsigh…

@JozefSerneels What do you mean with 'process elements'?

@marcusjenal Your could also consider bringing in the open during the discussion process elements of the context people are referring implicitly.

How can we root highly abstract conceptual discussion in a meainingful context? buttondown.email/systemicinsigh…

@ArnaldoPellini @SDPIPakistan @FingoFi @capabilityfi Thanks for sharing.

Just published by FCDO: Systems Thinking and Practice: A guide to concepts, principles and tools for FCDO and partners @SDPIPakistan @FingoFi @marcusjenal @capabilityfi k4d.ids.ac.uk/resource/syste…

Of indicators and experiences. buttondown.email/systemicinsigh…

In tension with intention - again. buttondown.email/systemicinsigh…

@hackerm0m I love this @hackerm0m Very inspiring. Thinking who I could read with!

I'm reading Moby Dick out loud with a partner it is personal and transcendent slow and savory and creative. Here are some thoughts. #reading #books #mobydick #capital #psychoanalysis #interpretation #creation

"... if you want people to see things from a radically different perspective then it is more likely to be achieved through a process of self-discovery of the contradictions between reality and their phenomenological and ideological constructs." Thanks @snowded

On Causality. buttondown.email/systemicinsigh…

@chriscorrigan Yes I have. Has been foundational for my understanding of complexity. Probably time to re-read though.

I just wrote 'The premises we re-enact', responding to @chriscorrigan's last blog post. buttondown.email/systemicinsigh…

I just wrote 'Sensing Change, continued'. buttondown.email/systemicinsigh…

On Today! Don't miss this if you are interested in innovation, economic change and transformation. cris-is.org/event-details/…

Wow... here it is... And it is free! Anyone been wondering what Warm Data is? Here you go: All 268 pages of articles, essays, stories, artwork, poetry on #WarmData This will give you ideas, tastes, textures of warm data, as well a peek into the rigor. unpsychology.org/?fbclid=IwAR1d…

@c_camman They are important, senior, experienced, busy, well educated (possibly with a PhD), often men, used to comfort (so don't want to travel to some places), actually often not really present, ... and so on and so forth. Of course there are (some) exceptions.

How can we know that living systems (societies, organisations, ecosystems) are changing on a level that Dana Meadows called ‘paradigm’ and Gregory Bateson called ‘attitude’? And how can we determine if they change to the ‘better’ or the ‘worse’ (whatever these words may mean)?