Experts

Tim Ferriss is an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies

Lisa Moritz is a celebrated author whose work in sketchnoting has transformed the way people capture and communicate ideas visually.

Dr. Zarefsky is a communication scholar and professor emeritus at Northwestern University.

Software systems architect, speaker, author and podcast host.

Jay Wright Forrester was a pioneer in system dynamics, renowned for his groundbreaking work in computer simulation and management science, fundamentally changing how we understand and manage complex systems in various domains such as economics, ecology, and engineering.

Nick Tune is a prominent figure in software architecture and engineering, renowned for his expertise in domain-driven design and microservices, advocating for practical approaches to building resilient and scalable systems.

Computational Social Scientist and Socio-Technical Systems Section Leader at Argonne National Laboratory

Cal is an MIT-trained computer science professor at Georgetown University who also writes about the intersections of technology, work, and the quest to find depth in an increasingly distracted world.

Matthew Skelton is a recognized authority in software engineering and organizational transformation, specializing in DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and team dynamics. With extensive experience as a consultant, trainer, and author, Skelton empowers organizations to adopt modern practices and achieve high-performance outcomes.

Jacqui Read is an internationally-recognised software and enterprise architect, and author of Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects, with hands-on experience and expertise architecting and coding software systems.

Eric Evans is a software engineer and author of "Domain-Driven Design," emphasizing domain modeling principles in software development.

A DevOps and Delivery Coach and Consultant, focused on teams and flow first. I help organizations adopt test automation and continuous delivery, as well as understand DevOps from both technical and human perspectives.

Russell Lincoln Ackoff was an American organizational theorist, consultant, and Professor Emeritus at the Wharton School. Ackoff was a pioneer in the field of operations research, systems thinking and management science.

A global community deeply involved in improving social systems.

Tatiana Mac is a writer, speaker, and engineer building accessible, performant, and supported products.

Michael Goodman is an internationally recognized speaker, author, teacher and practitioner in the fields of systems thinking, organizational learning and leadership.

Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist and writer

"Chief of Confusion"

Peter Senge has been at the forefront of organizational learning since publishing his classic text The Fifth Discipline in 1990

Managing editor at Farnam Street Media

Murray Gell-Mann was an American physicist who played a preeminent role in the development of the theory of elementary particles

Author and Technologist

Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian is an architect, writer, and educator

Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli author, public intellectual, historian and professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

James Gleick is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology

James Clear is an American writer best known for his book Atomic Habits.

An American food journalist, author, and former columnist for The New York Times

Christopher Wolfgang John Alexander was an Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist

John Carreyrou is a French-American investigative reporter at The New York Times

Shane Parrish is an entrepreneur and the wisdom seeker behind the popular thinking-about-thinking website Farnam Street.

Donella Hager "Dana" Meadows was an American environmental scientist, educator, and writer. She is best known as lead author of the books The Limits to Growth and Thinking In Systems: A Primer.

Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks.

Diana Montalion is an author, systems architect and dedicated to advancing systems skills for knowledge workers.