The best Systems Thinking newsletters

Nate Hagens hosts long-form conversations and writes essays on the systems science behind the human predicament, covering energy, economics, ecology, and human behavior. Readers get episode summaries, discussion questions, and links to show notes for deeper exploration.

Essays that use historical episodes, literature and film to examine how measurement, delegation, experience and decision-making shape outcomes in business and technology. The author, a founder building data products, also reflects on working with AI agents and on how organisations misread their own results.

Wismodia is a personal essay series by an independent writer on how technology, especially AI agents and delegated software, reshapes organisations, marketing, and economics. Issues combine systems-thinking framing, analogies, and causal-loop models to explain second-order effects for businesses and workers.

Essays of critical reflection on design, technology and systems, drawing on history of computing, bureaucracy theory and speculative fiction to examine how categories and classifications shape what institutions can see. The writing is reflective and literate, with a clear argumentative thread across issues.

A former CTO turned consultant shares opinionated, often provocative essays for technology leaders, including critiques of industry figures, book reviews on systems thinking and craft, and guest posts on the value of fundamentals. Readers get a sceptical, humanist take on leadership, software craft and the role of AI in engineering work.

Essays by Brandon Himpfen on systems, technology and open knowledge, explaining how he decides whether an idea becomes a tool, article or product and why side projects stall. Recent issues also examine how the web's infrastructure remains less centralized than its consumer platforms suggest.