Roughly 44% of podcasts never make it past their 3rd episode.
Only about 8% of podcasts make it past 10 episodes.
2025 Season of Cyb3rSyn Labs Podcast had 28 episodes. I’m glad to kick off the 2026 season with Gene Bellinger, who has been exploring the systems paradigm for over 50 years and a great source of inspiration for lifelong learning and epistemic humility!
In this episode, Gene traces his systems journey back to encountering Stafford Beer’s Platform for Change, when he was in college back in 1975. Gene discusses his evolution from diving deep in Systems Dynamics, creating dense, 25-loop "spaghetti diagrams" to developing small, meaningful models that prioritize relationships and their implications.
He shares how he now leverages Large Language Models like Google’s Gemini to uncover his own blind spots and generate heartwarming stories that translate complex dynamics into emotional narratives. By highlighting radical organizational models like Semco, which thrive by enabling people rather than controlling them, Gene illustrates how modern technologists can use AI to move beyond data to provoke thought and create models that serve as genuine invitations for conversation.
After listening to his story, I was only reminded of what Stafford Beer called “Heinz Von Foerster’s Theorem Number One”!
“The more profound the problem that is ignored, the greater are the chances for fame and success.”
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Podcast Video
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Key Insights and My Reflections
It was a pleasure to kickstart with 2026 season with Gene Bellinger, a storyteller who has spent five decades navigating the complexities of organizational dynamics and relationship modeling. Here are my reflections…