Benjamin P Taylor

Richard S O'Rourke stream.syscoi.com/2026/10/27/r...

epistemic garden - mapping how ideas spread online www.epistemic.garden

Managing contracts means more than checking compliance. Build the confidence to improve outcomes, supplier relationships and value for money. Our programme starts 11 November. publicservicetransformation.org/programmes/c...

A leaderless revolution has swept Serbia. The world should be watching | Aleksandar Matkovic

If a children’s services leadership team agrees to ‘improve outcomes for children’, what has it agreed to do differently? www.linkedin.com/posts/antler...

Why we should listen to the civil servants restate.substack.com/p/why-we-sho...

Hmm AD&D D&D Illuminati! A superhero one - now what was that called?! It was reduced in Games Workshop Star Wars

Why would a senior manager who empowered and enthused his team, improved service, and cut costs be fired and offered a lower-rung job if he accepted 'rehabilitiation'? The John Carter case by Barry Oshry holds part of the key to #relationalpublicservices www.linkedin.com/posts/antler...

The Necessary Tangle A living evidence atlas of systems | cybernetics | complexity buff.ly/By8OkYx

Most levelling up projects still unfinished years after funding allocated www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

My attempts to get our insurer to complete work on our house after 13 months appear to have reached the stage where they have created an 'unacceptable behaviour policy' entirely for me. v1.0, 23 October 2026... not sure how to feel about this.

festering piece of shit.

Oh NO :-( Sainsbury's croissants etc - descended from Delice de France, one of the highlights of democratised, high-quality, delicious, affordable-for-all food... have gone crap :-( Honestly, if anything tips me over the edge, it could be this....

"So the guy called himself a king" *muffled gasps from the panel* "and he sent thousands of soldiers to quarter in my city" *Washington audibly whispers "what the f-"* "and so we, like, formed this system where we'd call up people within a minute or two if they showed up" Paul Revere: hell yes

The boys' club at the top of government isn't just a culture problem – it's a capability crisis

If a public service #testlearngrow idea succeeds because someone senior makes an exception to a funding rule, what happens when that person changes jobs? www.linkedin.com/posts/antler...

Life finds a way: Emergence of cooperative structures in adaptive threshold networks stream.syscoi.com/2026/10/20/l...

why... how... why... how... can Apple Photos / iCloud be SO bad?! just HOW?!

Women's justice charity to run landmark legal advice service www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/womens-...

GP practices overlooked in Government £140m winter pressure boost  www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinica...

The truth about the deal that changed Manchester www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Ryan Haecker - Breaking the Cybernetic Silence stream.syscoi.com/2026/10/19/r...

Nick Land, Ryan Haecker, and the Problem of Cybernetic Consciousness stream.syscoi.com/2026/10/19/n...

The Viable Change Framework: Linking Theory of Change and Organisational Viability for Quality Enhancement in Higher Education stream.syscoi.com/2026/10/19/t...

Ashby Laboratory: states, stability and learning from a black box | The Necessary Tangle transduction.systems/reading/ashb...

The Firm Grip and the Light Hand – Jose (2026) stream.syscoi.com/2026/10/18/t...

Hezen 2.0 – Treister (2009-2011) | cybernetic tarot stream.syscoi.com/2026/10/18/h...

Drowning in slop Can the state survive the rise of AI? samf.substack.com/p/drowning-i...

Forget sandbags, tape can keep out 99% of flood water | University of Hull www.hull.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Why was the Cabinet Office found careless on IR35? www.accountingweb.co.uk/tax/hmrc-pol...

Systems leadership, change, and convening | Benjamin P Taylor antlerboy.com/library/syst...

Several years ago, I tried to call Manchester City Council to have a discussion with someone about my dad's deteriorating situation with his dementia: "Oh god. I have worked in public services for 24 years. Now trying to make an enquiry for an elderly relative..." x.com/antlerboy/st...

The four major unlocks in Femtech waiting to happen | Ida Tin on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/notification...

We’ll know we’ve changed things when ordinary decency no longer needs a workaround.

when critics of bari weiss say that she is not a journalist, we mean that literally. she does not respect or even appear to understand the values of the profession. everything for her is propaganda. www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

When services don’t join up, somebody’s life has to do the joining.

A shared purpose is usually just several different purposes sharing one sentence.

ASHBY’S LABORATORY | AN INTRODUCTION TO CYBERNETICS | CHAPTERS 03—06 – Shadow Rebbe (2026) stream.syscoi.com/2026/10/18/a...

Current events, recent SysCoI reading and the Ashby Laboratory | The Necessary Tangle transduction.systems/updates/2026...

Bernhard Sterchi – Complexity Theory and Neo-Kantian Theory of Science – Tuesday, Oct 20 · 5:00pm UK time, The Complexity Lounge, online stream.syscoi.com/2026/10/18/b...

We can’t give people agency, we can only stop charging them for using it.

You’re learning from a system that’s learnt what to tell you.

I’m part of the system, especially when I’m explaining why it won’t change.

If I were advising this administration, I would tell them that claiming we went to war because the Iranian regime killed protesters is not the best argument for an American regime that killed protesters.

Systems events map | The Necessary Tangle transduction.systems/events/

Where are the systems in ‘systems leadership’? chosen-path.org/2026/10/18/w...

Run the exercise | The Peter Block community exercise community.antlerboy.com