Jack Martin Leith
@jackmartinleith.bsky.social
Creating The Warriorship: birthing new warriors by means of a personal create-the-new project | Interim website: http://newwarriors.net
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September 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Learn this:
There is only one certainty, and that is joy.
Everything can be explained: joy has no explanation.
We cannot explain why we are joyful.
Joy is our task.
What you receive is a source of joy for the joyless.
Source: Talking with Angels, Dialogue 30
There is only one certainty, and that is joy.
Everything can be explained: joy has no explanation.
We cannot explain why we are joyful.
Joy is our task.
What you receive is a source of joy for the joyless.
Source: Talking with Angels, Dialogue 30
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September 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Learn this:
There is only one certainty, and that is joy.
Everything can be explained: joy has no explanation.
We cannot explain why we are joyful.
Joy is our task.
What you receive is a source of joy for the joyless.
Source: Talking with Angels, Dialogue 30
There is only one certainty, and that is joy.
Everything can be explained: joy has no explanation.
We cannot explain why we are joyful.
Joy is our task.
What you receive is a source of joy for the joyless.
Source: Talking with Angels, Dialogue 30
"A simple VSM looks like this"
Haha!
Haha!
Metaphorum – The Viable System Model in 1000 words stream.syscoi.com/2025/09/26/m...
Metaphorum – The Viable System Model in 1000 words
The VSM in 1000 words
stream.syscoi.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
"A simple VSM looks like this"
Haha!
Haha!
The Psychological Mechanisms behind the Cult of Progressivism, by Hannah Spier MD
Foreword by Iain McGilchrist
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Foreword by Iain McGilchrist
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Brilliant piece from Hannah Spier, MD
I heartily recommend subscribing to her blog called 'Psychobabble'
iainmcgilchrist.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The Psychological Mechanisms behind the Cult of Progressivism, by Hannah Spier MD
Foreword by Iain McGilchrist
iainmcgilchrist.substack.com/p/brilliant-...
Foreword by Iain McGilchrist
iainmcgilchrist.substack.com/p/brilliant-...
This is likely to be counterproductive, as Dan Williams @danwphilosophy.bsky.social sets out in Against Bluesky (and Blueskyism).
Fish where the fish are.
www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/against-bl...
Fish where the fish are.
www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/against-bl...
September 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This is likely to be counterproductive, as Dan Williams @danwphilosophy.bsky.social sets out in Against Bluesky (and Blueskyism).
Fish where the fish are.
www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/against-bl...
Fish where the fish are.
www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/against-bl...
Sharing this in case you ever need to reuse it.
When someone sits next to me at the train station, bus stop, or park bench, I just stare straight ahead and say "it's done. Did you bring the money?" They usually freeze before apologising and making an excuse to leave.
September 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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"Every entrepreneurial journey is a bet on vision and a bet on timing. You see a possibility before others do. You work to bring it into being, often years ahead of the market. And then you wait for the world to catch up."
Niko Canner, Incandescent
www.onhumanenterprise.com/when-vision-...
Niko Canner, Incandescent
www.onhumanenterprise.com/when-vision-...
On Human Enterprise | When Vision Meets Its Moment
Every entrepreneurial journey is a bet on vision and a bet on timing. You see a possibility before others do. You work to bring it into being, often years…
www.onhumanenterprise.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"Every entrepreneurial journey is a bet on vision and a bet on timing. You see a possibility before others do. You work to bring it into being, often years ahead of the market. And then you wait for the world to catch up."
Niko Canner, Incandescent
www.onhumanenterprise.com/when-vision-...
Niko Canner, Incandescent
www.onhumanenterprise.com/when-vision-...
Reposted by Jack Martin Leith
About Cybernetics – Prelude (and series) – Hilder (2025) stream.syscoi.com/2025/09/06/a...
About Cybernetics – Prelude (and series) – Hilder (2025)
What Cybernetics Is & Why It Matters Trevor E Hilder Aug 11, 2025
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September 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
About Cybernetics – Prelude (and series) – Hilder (2025) stream.syscoi.com/2025/09/06/a...
Excerpted from Iain McGilchrist's latest Substack.
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FYI @neilperkin.bsky.social
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September 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Excerpted from Iain McGilchrist's latest Substack.
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FYI @neilperkin.bsky.social
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FYI @neilperkin.bsky.social
Things that can be delivered:
♦ letters and parcels
♦ babies
Things that can't be delivered:
♦ change
♦ transformation
♦ projects
♦ value
… because they're not actual things.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
♦ letters and parcels
♦ babies
Things that can't be delivered:
♦ change
♦ transformation
♦ projects
♦ value
… because they're not actual things.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Keir Starmer may have just served up the worst political slogan of all time | Simon Hattenstone
‘Delivery, delivery, delivery’ isn’t just vacuous nonsense – it’s emblematic of the prime minister’s leaden-footed approach to politics, says Guardian writer Simon Hattenstone
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Things that can be delivered:
♦ letters and parcels
♦ babies
Things that can't be delivered:
♦ change
♦ transformation
♦ projects
♦ value
… because they're not actual things.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
♦ letters and parcels
♦ babies
Things that can't be delivered:
♦ change
♦ transformation
♦ projects
♦ value
… because they're not actual things.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Same goes for "delivering value".
Great article.
Thanks Benjamin and Chris Mowles.
Great article.
Thanks Benjamin and Chris Mowles.
August 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Same goes for "delivering value".
Great article.
Thanks Benjamin and Chris Mowles.
Great article.
Thanks Benjamin and Chris Mowles.
"There is no variety 'out there' waiting to be counted. There are no responses 'in here' waiting to be catalogued. There is only the ongoing transaction through which system and environment mutually specify each other."
Harish’s Notebook – The Two Dogmas of Complexity Science: How Our Best Tools Can Mislead Us – Jose, 2025 stream.syscoi.com/2025/08/26/h...
Harish’s Notebook – The Two Dogmas of Complexity Science: How Our Best Tools Can Mislead Us – Jose, 2025
Visit the post for more.
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August 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"There is no variety 'out there' waiting to be counted. There are no responses 'in here' waiting to be catalogued. There is only the ongoing transaction through which system and environment mutually specify each other."
"our brains are wired for certainty."
@franboait.bsky.social The Guardian
No - not the entire brain but just the left hemisphere.
The right hemisphere is about possibility, context and wholeness.
Iain McGilchrist has written and spoken about the widespread loss of right hemisphere function.
@franboait.bsky.social The Guardian
No - not the entire brain but just the left hemisphere.
The right hemisphere is about possibility, context and wholeness.
Iain McGilchrist has written and spoken about the widespread loss of right hemisphere function.
August 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
"our brains are wired for certainty."
@franboait.bsky.social The Guardian
No - not the entire brain but just the left hemisphere.
The right hemisphere is about possibility, context and wholeness.
Iain McGilchrist has written and spoken about the widespread loss of right hemisphere function.
@franboait.bsky.social The Guardian
No - not the entire brain but just the left hemisphere.
The right hemisphere is about possibility, context and wholeness.
Iain McGilchrist has written and spoken about the widespread loss of right hemisphere function.
"Tasks that humans find cognitively challenging (like solving mathematical problems) are relatively easy for AI to replicate, while tasks that humans do effortlessly (e.g. recognising faces) are extremely difficult for AI to master." @neilperkin.bsky.social
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August 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
"Tasks that humans find cognitively challenging (like solving mathematical problems) are relatively easy for AI to replicate, while tasks that humans do effortlessly (e.g. recognising faces) are extremely difficult for AI to master." @neilperkin.bsky.social
onlydeadfish.substack.com/p/fish-food-...
onlydeadfish.substack.com/p/fish-food-...
Chairman Jet Kilt
July 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Chairman Jet Kilt
Reposted by Jack Martin Leith
Why do so many big projects far exceed the original budget and time, and often fail to deliver the perceived benefits? In this week's newsletter I look at 'Gigantomania', and useful principles for adopting new technology which originated 100 years ago open.substack.com/pub/onlydead...
Fish Food: Episode 648 - Gigantomania and why big projects go wrong
Why big stuff goes wrong, technology and more free time, cognitive debt, the state of strategy, and think-prompt-think
open.substack.com
June 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Why do so many big projects far exceed the original budget and time, and often fail to deliver the perceived benefits? In this week's newsletter I look at 'Gigantomania', and useful principles for adopting new technology which originated 100 years ago open.substack.com/pub/onlydead...
Read more and register for this Zoom event
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Activism and the divided brain - Iain McGilchrist and Anthea Lawson
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June 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Read more and register for this Zoom event
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ChatGPT Project Space Strategy Briefing Template
Created by @neilperkin.bsky.social, whose work I endorse.
View / download:
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Created by @neilperkin.bsky.social, whose work I endorse.
View / download:
drive.google.com/file/d/1atbQ...
June 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
ChatGPT Project Space Strategy Briefing Template
Created by @neilperkin.bsky.social, whose work I endorse.
View / download:
drive.google.com/file/d/1atbQ...
Created by @neilperkin.bsky.social, whose work I endorse.
View / download:
drive.google.com/file/d/1atbQ...
Modern science has lost its mind
We can’t dismiss AI consciousness
Iain McGilchrist and @philipgoff.bsky.social in conversation on @unherd.com
unherd.com/2025/06/mode...
FYI @neilperkin.bsky.social
We can’t dismiss AI consciousness
Iain McGilchrist and @philipgoff.bsky.social in conversation on @unherd.com
unherd.com/2025/06/mode...
FYI @neilperkin.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Modern science has lost its mind
We can’t dismiss AI consciousness
Iain McGilchrist and @philipgoff.bsky.social in conversation on @unherd.com
unherd.com/2025/06/mode...
FYI @neilperkin.bsky.social
We can’t dismiss AI consciousness
Iain McGilchrist and @philipgoff.bsky.social in conversation on @unherd.com
unherd.com/2025/06/mode...
FYI @neilperkin.bsky.social
The curse of the Double Axis Chart
by @nielspflaeging.bsky.social
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by @nielspflaeging.bsky.social
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The curse of the Double Axis Chart
Thinking in four quadrants is the perfect crime
nielspflaeging.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The curse of the Double Axis Chart
by @nielspflaeging.bsky.social
nielspflaeging.substack.com/p/the-curse-...
by @nielspflaeging.bsky.social
nielspflaeging.substack.com/p/the-curse-...
June 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
'The concept of "two kinds of why" refers to a distinction between causal "why" and teleological "why" questions. Causal questions seek the cause or mechanism behind an event, while teleological questions explore the purpose or reason for an event.' —Grok
May 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
'The concept of "two kinds of why" refers to a distinction between causal "why" and teleological "why" questions. Causal questions seek the cause or mechanism behind an event, while teleological questions explore the purpose or reason for an event.' —Grok
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (Argument Closed)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
medium.com/incerto/iq-i...
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
medium.com/incerto/iq-i...
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle
Background : “IQ” is a stale test meant to measure mental capacity but in fact mostly measures extreme unintelligence (learning…
medium.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (Argument Closed)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
medium.com/incerto/iq-i...
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
medium.com/incerto/iq-i...