Hello there! Another year has passed and we are here again. We would love to invite you to join us at X.com — x.com — where we will continue our journey together.
Let’s remember the posts of 2024
January
- The beginning of the year could be a good nudge (but not required!) to strategize — read a post (a working product of strategizing practice) by our student, Lari Tserenov
- By the way, our cumulative digest of the last year is published on our Medium
- Feel the difference between Mastery and Knowledge
- Struggling With Complexity in Thinking will help you to improve your thinking!
- Another of our students, Aliaksandr Kantsevoi, debuted on our Medium with a note on the psychopathology of everyday things
February & March
- Laugheter prolongs life, but systems thinking could help as well!
- Aliaksandr Kantsevoi continued his Medium note series on the design of everyday things with 2) psychopatology of everyday actions, 3) knowledge in the head and in the world, 4) knowing what to do; constraints, discoverability, and feedback, 5) Human error? No, bad design, 6) design thinking.
- Pros and cons of progress were discussed in the article on our LinkedIn.
- Theatrical Metaphor and Metanoia are two excerpts from our Systems Thinking worth reading on their own.
- Posts on Thinking and Intelligence, Learning and Education and Thinking Requirements introduce you to foundational concepts described in our courses.
April
- A note by Ivan Metelkin on Wikipedia and Systems Thinking
- An article about Life Mastery
- Aliaksandr Kantsevoi’s final post in the Design of Everyday Things series — Design in the World of Business
- One more excerpt from the Systems Thinking course on Thinking about Humans: First of All They are Role Performers
- Person as a Platform article
May
- Role Performer, Role, Concern, Preference, Intention — how is it all connected?
- What is self-collectedness mastery?
- How Rigorous is Systems Thinking?
- What roles do bosses play?
- How are Aristotelian physics and systems thinking related?
- What are the difference in “eastern” and “western” thinking?
All the answers are on our LinkedIn and Medium!
June
June digest just answers the question why smart is not equal to rich, tells about leadership and…
announces our website complete update! Check it out → https://aisystant.com/
Now you can access our courses even without registration: many courses were just released with this update, while many others have been substantially revised!
July
- Read a note on System Naming on our Medium or LinkedIn
- Get vaccinated against stupidity!
- And finally, separate concerns correctly
August & September
- On computer programs
- ‘Definition as a Coffin’ by Ian Glendinning
- Not the systems approach!
- Systems thinking and labor outlook
- How to become a sought-after specialist
- Model/theory/discipline as the reality definition
- A spreadshit of sockets and switches example by Ivan Metelkin
- Systems thinking is a part of thinking mastery
- Language of systems thinking is transdisciplinary
October
- System thinking and labour outlook were connected
- Lari Tserenov wrote a note on work products
- Ivan Metelkin described his setup of architectural projects management in Jira and the cost of systematicity
- The modern concept of a “system” was revisited
November
In this Aisystant digest we:
- compared the look “outside” the system vs. the look “into” the system
- returned back to classic definition of a “system”
- watched the launch of our alumna Liya Rooney’s Youtube channel optimistically
- learned to separate roles and their performers
December