Passend zum heutigen #DigitalIndependenceDay:

Dieser etwas längere, aber dafür inhaltlich umso reichhaltigere Artikel aus #Noema zieht Parallelen von Plantagen, #Massentierhaltung und der autogerechten top-down #Stadtplanung zur monopolistischen Struktur des Internets und schlägt analog zum #Rewilding von Naturgebieten ein Rewilding des Internets vor.

"The story of German scientific forestry transmits a timeless truth: When we simplify complex systems, we destroy them, and the devastating consequences sometimes aren’t obvious until it’s too late. …

Internet infrastructure is a degraded ecosystem, but it’s also a built environment, like a city. Its unpredictability makes it generative, worthwhile and deeply human. In 1961, #JaneJacobs, an American-Canadian activist and author of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” argued that mixed-use neighborhoods were safer, happier, more prosperous, and more livable than the sterile, highly controlling designs of urban planners like New York’s #RobertMoses."

"Technologists are great at incremental fixes, but to regenerate entire habitats, we need to learn from ecologists who take a whole-systems view. Ecologists also know how to keep going when others first ignore you and then say it’s too late, how to mobilize and work collectively, and how to build pockets of diversity and resilience that will outlast them, creating possibilities for an abundant future they can imagine but never control. We don’t need to repair the internet’s infrastructure. We need to rewild it."

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

#DIDay #DigitalIndependence #RewildTheInternet #systemsthinking #systemdynamics #complexsystems #Decentralisation #Interoperability #Portability #OpenSource #Resilience #Longread #Enshittification #Broligarchy #NoOligarchy #NoKings #StopTheBillionaireTakeover

Just out: A fresh, slightly extended look at Causal Loop Diagramming (CLD+), which might eventually inspire new modeling workflows.
#systemdynamics

https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2025.2606200

“A New Systems Model Building and Analysis Software: The Qualitative Systems Exploration Model (QSEM)”
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7364121786168303617

#SystemsThinking #SystemDynamics

📊 Rethinking inventory strategy — new system dynamics research challenges retail norms.

A recent study shows that introducing a competing product earlier during an existing product’s decline phase can lead to higher long-term revenue. 🤯

Key insights for retail leaders:
🛒 Inventory decisions must model real substitution behavior
🔁 Early introductions can phase out old products more profitably
🧮 Demand forecasting should include stockout effects
📦 Safety stock planning and shorter review cycles reduce lost sales
🧠 Dynamic, not static, strategies win in FMCG and tech retail

This is a must-read for anyone managing product portfolios, especially in fast-moving markets where demand shifts fast and substitution patterns aren't predictable.

#SystemDynamics #Systems #SystemsTheory #IEEE #WSD

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10976483

Maybe in my #systemdynamics bubble someone can answer this question regarding #elasticity in a continuous-time dynamical systems context (i.e., it is a factor scaling fractional rates)?

Why is this (very natural) momentum-related formulation not more widespread in models?

https://math.stackexchange.com/q/4944214/200681

Jay Forrester (at 21:00) about #systemdynamics and why governments around the world are not able to stop #climatechange:

"a deep understanding of these issues would make a very major change in the world but that deep understanding [..] has to include a public understanding because you cannot expect these changes to come from the top of a corporation or the top of a government. People in [..] System Dynamics as well as other approaches to policy design are always talking about convincing decision makers. There are no such people [..] When it comes to the big issues if a policy in government or a corporation is going in this direction and that's a governmental policy and you'd like to push it a little bit one way or the other then you can persuade and you can have lobbyists and you can bribe a few people and you can push it a little bit but if the real goal is to reverse it totally there is no government that's capable doing that unless there is a public support and so [..] it has to come up from the Grassroots [..] to be able to deal with the big issues that put the long-term ahead of the short term which is one of the main things [we need to do]"
https://youtu.be/6b4DmGtlOik?si=RXwBP8bajXX-FY5K

John Scales Avery (1933-2024) was an American theoretical chemist. In his book "Civilization's Crisis" he argues that civilization as a whole faces a set of linked challenges. #ClimateChange is caused by consumption of non-renewable #FossilFuels but it is just one aspect of a bigger crisis. Other aspects are #Deforestation, #OceanAcidification, #NuclearWaste and #pollution in general. #ResourceDepletion and #VanishingResources in combination with #OverPopulation will eventually lead to a #collapse of #civilization in this century according to #systemdynamics and classic #limitstogrowth models. The turning point is #PeakOil or the #HubbertPeak which we are reaching now.
https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/10501

More articles from John can be found here
https://www.johnavery.info/