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The 'Where's Wally' of Systems Thinking
Cyb3rSyn Labs Podcast - Episode 4
Laksh Raghavan
March 19, 2025
This week’s Cyb3rSyn Newsletter is another special mid-week edition carrying the fourth Cyb3rSyn Labs Podcast episode, my conversation with Roger James. This special episode is available to all the subscribers of the Cyb3rSyn Newsletter (including free) and can be watched on www.cyb3rsyn.com.
Roger has worked with insightful individuals like Alan Kay and Stafford Beer and calls out the nature of learning and how profound understanding often develops over time, sometimes weeks or even years after an initial interaction.
Roger started his academic background in science and physics, followed by his experiences in operations research, the pharmaceutical industry, and teaching Systems Thinking at the Open University (UK) and working with the University of Cambridge. He’s the "Where's Wally" of systems thinking, being present in significant scenes and learning through observation and practice.
“… What we call 'progress' turns out to be a recognition of advances in technique, and has little to do with advance in understanding. In short, we have become very good at following our technological nose - regardless of where we shall end up. But understanding is a product of modeling, and the useful models change very little over the millennia."
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