Benjamin P. Taylor

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systems | cybernetics | complexity

public | service | transformation
business evolutionary | avid learner

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PATTERNS OF LIFE: How Traditional Urban Patterns Are a More Powerful (and More Necessary) Antidote than We Might Think for the Current "Age of Disruption"

A discussion post for the upcoming 63rd International Making Cities Livable conference, on "Regenerative Architecture and Urbanism: Recovery and Resilience After an Age of Disruption"ABOVE: "Traditional" and "modern" environments in Jelgava and Riga, Latvia, exhibit very different forms of geometric order -- which, as new research is revealing, have profoundly different consequences for human well-being. Images: City of Jelgava, Wikimedia Commons.JELGAVA, LATVIA - One of the greatest paradoxes o

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If you could only have one kitchen knife, why is it this one?
Problem Solving, Problem Seeking – Ing (2026)

April 17, 2026 daviding Problem Solving, Problem Seeking – Coevolving Innovations

Systems Community of Inquiry
Reframing Public Services in Ireland as a Relational Practice - Public Policy https://publicpolicy.ie/papers/reframing-public-services-in-ireland-as-a-relational-practice/
Beyond caring: a new funding model for later-life social care - Re:State https://re-state.co.uk/publications/beyond-caring-a-new-funding-model-for-later-life-social-care/
There’s a quiet skill in seeing the game being played without needing to win it, fix it, or expose it. Underrated, slightly subversive.
I trust people who can describe how they might be wrong. I worry about people who can only describe what’s wrong with others.
The session went well! Everyone agreed to continue as before, but with slightly different words.
Public services don’t lack innovation. They lack the permission to stop doing things that no longer make sense.