Hi Benjamin

Just because we don’t post on it doesn’t mean we don’t value it. I have saved every one of the email posts in an archive to delve into. I am about to design a home-made study curriculum on the science and application of complexity thinking in decision making (which kind of is my job anyway) but i am going into the science and psychology of it. Therefore your archive is essential.

Thanks and be sure not to delete it (at least until you find a way of sharing all of the resources in a pdf type “World of Knowledge”)

Kind regards

Michael

On 31 December 2017 at 13:34, antlerboy-benjamintaylor < antlerboy-benjamintaylor@model.report> wrote:

Hey all

Scott, who runs model.report, has had some data problems. The site is a hassle for him and therefore, he proposed to Gene Bellinger and myself that he delete it. That’s the reason for the ‘model report is deprecated’ message that you may see if you come to the site.

Natually, Gene (who sees, I think, the creative power of destruction) is in favour of deleting the site - he makes the point there are c200 users and <12 active posters, which I agree, in the scale of the internet, is small potatoes. He deleted his own account and therefore his c200 posts and responses on here some time ago.

Natually, I, who am somewhat resistant to destruction, and have invested quite a bit of time building this as a repository of all forms of systems thinking, would like to keep the site. I’m prepared to find some ways to help with that effort (financial, organisational, whatever) if it helps.

So, while I would like to keep the site regardless, Gene has challenged me to prove that others want to keep it to. So, if you do, please respond!

cheers

Benjamin

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Well done on opening a conversation on what this is for and how it can be maximised. For me - I do appreciate it. I am learning stuff on it but I do have a couple of insights:

1. There is a lot of stuff. unless you are an academic - to make your way through reading just what is presented never mind the links then its hard to get time. As a result the only “unread” emails in my Gmail are the ones from here. I don’t delete them because I know they are valuable but I am not able to keep pace.

2. I never knew I was a contributor

3. The next thing is the sorting. Because of the amount and breadth of stuff posted - it is hard to work out what is of interest and relevant. We get the message that complexity and systems thinking are very broad and have a lot of dimensions, however there is so much posted here that it is hard to navigate through it.

4. I have never searched for anything in model report because I have not thought of it as a stored repository of information.

5. In most on line forums - people are lurkers - they consume but don;t post. People will post on stuff that they know about (unless you btl on a newspaper when any clown dives into any debate). This goes to the point about the breadth of stuff posted. Perhaps only a few people are intimate with any one posting but over the stretch of a month or so there is sufficient for each person to keep a “broad church” interested.

Anyway thanks for having gotten it towhee it is and it would be good to know if it is meeting your own expectations of what it was intended to achieve?