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.
Subscribe free → Free on Substack. Unsubscribe anytime.Long-form thinking on systems, AI, and the leaders navigating complexity in real time.
Free and paid editions connecting the dots across AI, policy, business, and life.
Every episode reads the world as feedback loops — finding the small place a vicious cycle turns virtuous.
Business. Public sector. Nonprofit. The whole system — not just one slice of it.
A real AI example where virtuous intent hardened into reinforcing harm — and the one small place the loop could have flipped.
Donella Meadows mapped the places to intervene in a system. We map them onto the AI landscape — and name where the real levers are.
The case for why augmentation, automation, agentic and adaptive sequencing is the highest good for people and organizations alike.