Conversations about the invisible infrastructure of culture.
Good Systems Thinking is a long-running audio archive. Every episode is a working session with someone whose practice depends on systems you cannot see.
What is holding, what is missing, what would make it more coherent.
Every episode is a working session with someone whose practice depends on systems you cannot see: the programmer behind a venue, the operations lead of a nonprofit, the teacher building a curriculum, the designer shaping a hospitality concept. We talk about the structure beneath the surface.
The podcast extends the same questions that run through the essays, the classroom, and the consulting work. It is part of a single practice, not a side project.
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The full episode archive lives on the show page, with each conversation tagged by topic, guest discipline, and the questions it works through. Transcripts are published for every episode, both for accessibility and because reading is sometimes the point.
Pitch the show.
If you run something — a venue, a studio, a department, a practice — and you want to talk through the system beneath it, pitch the show. Include a short note about what you run, one question you keep returning to, and a link to your work.
The most interesting conversations happen when the system and the story get to sit at the same table.— Good Systems Thinking
The podcast shares a universe with the essays and the consulting.
Same questions, different mediums. Subscribe to the podcast, read the essays, or bring a project to the studio — it is all one conversation.