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Living the Human Loop

with Will North

Architect of Adaptive Intelligence

A podcast and Substack for systems thinkers navigating the AI age — bringing the whole-systems lens to the questions everyone's asking. Listen. Read. Stay in the loop.

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The Podcast

Long-form thinking on systems, AI, and the leaders navigating complexity in real time.

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The Substack

Free and paid editions connecting the dots across AI, policy, business, and life.

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The Lens

Every episode reads the world as feedback loops — finding the small place a vicious cycle turns virtuous.

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Three Sectors

Business. Public sector. Nonprofit. The whole system — not just one slice of it.

What to expect

What's inside

When AI hits a vicious cycle — and how to reverse it

A real AI example where virtuous intent hardened into reinforcing harm — and the one small place the loop could have flipped.

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The leverage points the AI industry is ignoring

Donella Meadows mapped the places to intervene in a system. We map them onto the AI landscape — and name where the real levers are.

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Why the goal isn't smarter AI but wiser, adaptive humans

The case for why augmentation, automation, agentic and adaptive sequencing is the highest good for people and organizations alike.