346 entries from "Brasilia"

Let's talk about a foreign policy joke....

[The US government funds gender studies in Pakistan to impede the formation military opposition there. It does not in Saudi Arabia because they are allies and don't want to compromise the power structure of their friends. It's not about women.]

Seeing Whole Systems

[It's hard to effect change without visualizing the whole system. Use tools that help seeing and playing with the dynamics.]

[The three types of feedback loops are re-inforcing, balancing, and chaos. We can effect change in complex systems by creating feedback loops that bring our state to the desired ideal.]

[Create attractors (deepen valleys) that stabilize to positive outcomes. Shorten mountains to make negative outcomes easier to avoid.]