An implementation of the classic Game of Life using agent based modeling.

Rules:

• A live cell with less than two alive neighbors dies.
• A live cell with more than three alive neighbors dies.
• A dead cell with three neighbors becomes alive.

The limits to results structure endeavors to bring a balance between a current state and a desired state though more often than not the action is limited by some constraint.  See also Archetypes.

An escalation structure results from two or more competing entities with the competition taking them to somewhere none of them want to be. See also Archetypes.

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Thoughts on why storytelling is critical for enabling others to understand relationship models once they're developed. This was done for the Learning Community Group at ODU Mar 2019.

Perspective on the difference between Process and System.

Based on 1990 SDR Article. Control systems act to make their own input match internal standards or reference signals. Competent control systems create illusions of stimulus response causality. Stimulus-response theory can approximate the relationship between disturbance and action, but it can't predict the consequences of behavior. These consequences are maintained despite disturbances.

Causal Loop Diagram Notation.

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Two goal seeking structures attempting to resolve and based on the delay one may tend to settle for less. See also Archetypes.

A model to use for the basics of storytelling.

While it's rather straight forward to invest money in places that generate interest over time why isn't that more of us don't do that and become rich?

Investigating the behavior of several variables over time has probably raised more questions than answers. As such now it's time to investigate what else might be influencing the trending of these variables.

The virtuous reinforcing loop is what happens when you just do it with a trial and learning mindset.

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The process as currently understood for developing and managing the scripts associated with videos and webinars.

This is a definition of the Systems Thinking Interactive Learning Environment (STILE) development process which was used to create Beyond Connecting the Dots (BCtD).

Trying to understand the affect of loans on money in circulation.

From reading Why Politics Makes Us Stupid by Ezra Klein I though I had discovered a new archetype though it's really just a simple reinforcing structure, or so it seems.

To this point components which are likely so support aspects of a virtual collaboration have been identified. The question now becomes how does one foster interactions between participants such that there is a definite possibility of producing meaningful results.

A quick example for creating a simulation in Insight Maker.

A model to use to demonstrate scenarios using button scripts.

My first simulation model example.

There are two basic modes of organizational operation, one founded on the concept of management and one founded on the concept of leadership. These two modes represent very different systemic structures.

A simple agent based foraging model. Consumer agents will move between fertile patches consuming them.

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What seems to make sense at this point is to first identify the functional aspects of the tool set even though we're aware they cannot all come from one vendor.