Madonna Demir writes personal essays on how modern life can be redesigned at the intersection of systems thinking and human feeling. Each issue pairs a vivid anecdote with a clear argument about a recurring pattern, such as institutional exceptionalism or rewarding rescue over prevention.
Website: https://www.systems-and-soul.com/
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.
A systemic engineering newsletter mixing sharp tech criticism, systems theory and playful essayistic fiction about observability, socio-technical systems and team dynamics. Readers get dense, witty essays that take apart tech jargon and reframe engineering practice through cybernetics and personal experience.
Each issue is a short philosophical essay that opens with a sharp thesis and develops it through concrete examples, such as traffic equilibria or shifting social norms. Readers get an accessible account of how simplification, collective belief and unintended system effects shape what people understand and do.
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.
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