Insight diagram
Simulation of MTBF with controls

F(t) = 1 - e ^ -λt 
Where  
• F(t) is the probability of failure  
• λ is the failure rate in 1/time unit (1/h, for example) 
• t is the observed service life (h, for example)

The inverse curve is the trust time
On the right the increase in failures brings its inverse which is loss of trust and move into suspicion and lack of confidence.
This can be seen in strategic social applications with those who put economy before providing the priorities of the basic living infrastructures for all.

This applies to policies and strategic decisions as well as physical equipment.
A) Equipment wears out through friction and preventive maintenance can increase the useful lifetime, 
B) Policies/working practices/guidelines have to be updated to reflect changes in the external environment and eventually be replaced when for instance a population rises too large (constitutional changes are required to keep pace with evolution, e.g. the concepts of the ancient Greeks, 3000 years ago, who based their thoughts on a small population cannot be applied in 2013 except where populations can be contained into productive working communities with balanced profit and loss centers to ensure sustainability)

Early Life
If we follow the slope from the leftmost start to where it begins to flatten out this can be considered the first period. The first period is characterized by a decreasing failure rate. It is what occurs during the “early life” of a population of units. The weaker units fail leaving a population that is more rigorous.

Useful Life
The next period is the flat bottom portion of the graph. It is called the “useful life” period. Failures occur more in a random sequence during this time. It is difficult to predict which failure mode will occur, but the rate of failures is predictable. Notice the constant slope.  

Wearout
The third period begins at the point where the slope begins to increase and extends to the rightmost end of the graph. This is what happens when units become old and begin to fail at an increasing rate. It is called the “wearout” period. 
Clone of BATHTUB MEAN TIME BETWEEN FAILURE (MTBF) RISK
Insight diagram

Adam Smith's The Invisible Hand: The Feedback Structure of Markets. From Sterman JD Business Dynamics p170 Fig 5-26. A price-mediated resource allocation system..

Clone of Price control mechanism
Insight diagram
Very basic stock-flow diagram of simple interest with table and graph output in interest, bank account and savings development per year. Initial deposit, interest rate, yearly deposit and withdrawal, and initial balance bank account can all be modified. 
I have developed a lesson plan in which students work on both simple and compound interest across both IM and Excel. I also wrote an article about this in Dutch, which you can translate using for example Google Translate: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SsyJF89jT8xwAmtDaMS0rfdUefW7pPwBnw4ASauVeFw/edit?usp=sharing
Clone of Stock-Flow diagram of savings account - simple interest
Insight diagram
An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Clone of Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
Insight diagram
Investigations into the relationships responsible for the success and failure of nations. This investigation was prompted after reading numerous references on the subject and perceiving that *Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty* by Acemoglu and Robinson seem to make a great deal of sense.

Original model done for The Perspectives Project though recast into Kumu.
Clone of Clone of Why Nations Fail
Insight diagram
An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Clone of Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
Insight diagram
An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Clone of Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
Insight diagram
An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Clone of Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
Insight diagram
WIP Summary of MIchael Hudson's Book Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt destroy the Global Economy 
Clone of Killing the Host
Insight diagram
An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Clone of Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
Insight diagram
An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Clone of Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
Insight diagram
An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Clone of Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
Insight diagram
Adapted from Hartmut Bossel's "System Zoo 3 Simulation Models, Economy, Society, Development."

​Population model where the population is summarized in four age groups (children, parents, older people, old people). Used as a base population model for dealing with issues such as employment, care for the elderly, pensions dynamics, etc.
Clone of Z602 Population with four age groups
Insight diagram
Unfortunately, this model only produces the illusion of functioning, but I did manage to get it to give me the graph. However, because of the use of flows, if you change the time step to and the simulation length to anything other than the same numbers, you'll find the graph showing something that looks more exponential. This is due to the function referencing itself in regards to time, so inevitably each time consumption grows it changes the outcome on the other side of the equation. Still, this is a convincing mock up. I added a "45 degree" line so that one could conceivably see (and also change) the difference made by altering the level of autonomous consumption.
Clone of Keynesian Macroeconomics
Insight diagram
Summary of UNEP ecosystems services CBA 2011 article by Wegner and Pascual
Clone of Value and cost benefit analysis
Insight diagram
Simulation of MTBF with controls

F(t) = 1 - e ^ -λt 
Where  
• F(t) is the probability of failure  
• λ is the failure rate in 1/time unit (1/h, for example) 
• t is the observed service life (h, for example)

The inverse curve is the trust time
On the right the increase in failures brings its inverse which is loss of trust and move into suspicion and lack of confidence.
This can be seen in strategic social applications with those who put economy before providing the priorities of the basic living infrastructures for all.

This applies to policies and strategic decisions as well as physical equipment.
A) Equipment wears out through friction and preventive maintenance can increase the useful lifetime, 
B) Policies/working practices/guidelines have to be updated to reflect changes in the external environment and eventually be replaced when for instance a population rises too large (constitutional changes are required to keep pace with evolution, e.g. the concepts of the ancient Greeks, 3000 years ago, who based their thoughts on a small population cannot be applied in 2013 except where populations can be contained into productive working communities with balanced profit and loss centers to ensure sustainability)

Early Life
If we follow the slope from the leftmost start to where it begins to flatten out this can be considered the first period. The first period is characterized by a decreasing failure rate. It is what occurs during the “early life” of a population of units. The weaker units fail leaving a population that is more rigorous.

Useful Life
The next period is the flat bottom portion of the graph. It is called the “useful life” period. Failures occur more in a random sequence during this time. It is difficult to predict which failure mode will occur, but the rate of failures is predictable. Notice the constant slope.  

Wearout
The third period begins at the point where the slope begins to increase and extends to the rightmost end of the graph. This is what happens when units become old and begin to fail at an increasing rate. It is called the “wearout” period. 
Clone of BATHTUB MEAN TIME BETWEEN FAILURE (MTBF) RISK
Insight diagram
An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Clone of Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
Insight diagram
An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Clone of Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
Insight diagram
Bradley initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Clone of Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
Insight diagram
An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Clone of Clone of Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
Insight diagram
An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Clone of Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
Insight diagram
An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Claire - Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02
Insight diagram
OVERSHOOT GROWTH GOES INTO TURBULENT CHAOTIC DESTRUCTION

The existing global capitalistic growth paradigm is totally flawed

The chaotic turbulence is the result of the concept of infinite bigness this has been the destructive influence on all empires and now shown up by Feigenbaum numbers and Dunbar numbers for neural netwoirks

See Guy Lakeman Bubble Theory for more details on keeping systems within finite limited size working capacity containers (villages communities)

Clone of OVERSHOOT GROWTH INTO TURBULENCE
Insight diagram
An initial study of the economics of single use coffee pods.
Clone of Coffee Pods ISD Humanities v 1.02