Aidan Ward in GentlySerious

May 22, 2020

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Decolonising time

Our perception of time is perhaps the most directly colonised aspect of our existence. We largely march to someone else’s drum…

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Aidan Ward in GentlySerious

Nov 4, 2020

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Habits of entitlement

There is a class of people who think that pedestrians and cyclists should keep out of the way of cars. Not of course as…

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Aidan Ward in GentlySerious

Nov 23, 2020

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Self-organisation and political systems

The purpose of a system is what it does. Stafford Beer said, with a twinkle, that the…

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Aidan Ward in GentlySerious

Apr 28, 2020

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Systems and democracy

Systems have invariants: things that remain constant when the rest of the system changes. If we want to believe that we…

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Aidan Ward in GentlySerious

Apr 15, 2020

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A very corporate pandemic

There is a point of view on the current pandemic which needs to be highlighted. Simply stated, the virus is…

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Aidan Ward in GentlySerious

Feb 20, 2020

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Thought as a dysfunctional system

How we idealise thought! We say we need to think things through. We say we need time to think about…

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Aidan Ward in GentlySerious

Apr 8, 2020

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Values and systems again

When BAA were building Terminal 5, they used the contracting process to signal that they were interested in the…

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Aidan Ward in GentlySerious

Aug 25, 2020

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The new world that will unfold

There is a chapter in Bateson’s Steps to an Ecology of Mind in which he explores and bemoans the…

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Aidan Ward in GentlySerious

Jun 23, 2020

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Homeostats and cybernetic regulation

One of the very few things I remember from school is a visit to the local trading standards…

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Aidan Ward in GentlySerious

Jul 6, 2020

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Shame and failure

Do we all have our moments that we relive and think, “what happened there?” and “where did that come from?”. I want to recount…

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These were the top 10 stories published by GentlySerious in 2020. You can also dive into monthly archives for 2020 by using the calendar at the top of this page.