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Part of the book cover with teh title Eventually Everything Connects

Eventually Everything Connects by Sarah Firth

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Sarah Firth’s bundle of Eight Essays on Uncertainty is a collection of visualised overthinking of normal life’s situations. To me, the essays feels like a good representation of a systems thinker’s thoughts. The deliberations to… 

Sketch of interpretations of Exif data.

Neutral data?

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‘Data is neutral’, posted someone on social media in 2022. It triggered a conversation, which I was just reminded of. One example was the Exif data of a photo. Data without any interpretation could be… 

Book cover Revenge of the Tipping point

Revenge of the tipping point by Malcolm Gladwell

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In Gladwell’s stories of ‘sudden’ crime, epidemic, death, segregation always lies a hint of hope. It is in the description of the ‘Law of the Few’, where just a tiny fraction of men tipped a… 

Learn to dance

As a systems thinker, one skill you apparently need is to learn to dance. This could be based on the insights of Donella Meadows, who encourages us to think with systems, or based on ideas… 

Eureka, I am a systems thinker!

The connections just appeared to me and how everything was related. Eureka, everything made sense. I found the answer on the question why nurses won’t get what they need. I tried to explain it the… 

So this is the blog section?

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Cool, a happy blog text. Nope…not functioning yet. Yes, it is finally functioning…and I’ll leave this just for now…

‘This nurse is working properly’

Yesterday my computer decided not to charge the battery. A message: “not charging”. It stayed at 22% when plugged in. I checked the power cable. Everything connected perfectly. So why? I had been on vacation… 

Short manual of the IV pump on the side of the device

Nurseproof

I read an article about an incident at a hospital where it said: ‘ through inattentiveness by nurses …’ they were able to connect the wrong valve. Even thought there were ‘clear identifiable differences’. They… 

Zoomed in on the fire

Patient care and fire …

Don’t worry, it’s not about fire. But there is a kind of emergency. I work in a hospital as a researcher product development healthcare. I observe the work of nurses and their use of products.… 

Administration, administration and …

The amount of administration nurses have to do is baffling. It’s not that I think the administration is not necessary. That’s a double negative. I mean, the registration of so much of the patient-related info…