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BUSINESS

A commonly defined and shared visual context is a game changer for any business, small or large. For us, smaps accelerated our ability to reach alignment and achieve critical milestones to launch Maporium as a business.

SMAP Benefits

There are numerous benefits to the addition of visual context into the operations of any organization.

The SAAS Playbook

Build a multimillion dollar startup without venture capital. Strategies and frameworks from the trenches to help you grow a successful SaaS company.

Maporium Website

Visualizing a website as a system makes it easier to optimize not just structure, but exploration paths as well.

FINANCE

Many of us worry about money and find most financial systems rather difficult to understand. Smaps offer a new insightful way to comprehend their complexity and navigate them with greater confidence.

Investing in Forever

Current pension money investment practices could be replaced with stewardship equity, a less myopic future practice that aims to align pensions' obligations to the long-term future with investments supporting that future, guaranteeing pension's fiduciary duty to the future well-being of their members.

Where Is My Money Going?

How does money move through pensions into the economy in order to provision your retirement?

HEALTH

Health is one of our most intimate systems, central to our human experience. Smaps provide a unique way to learn about our body, as well as improve communication between health practitioners and their patients.

Healthcare in America

In the United States, families and investors both interact with the world of health insurance, however with diametrically opposed perspectives and objectives.

Healthcare Process

Understanding the different aspects of the healthcare process, as well as the meaning of key medical terms, is essential to a successful patient journey.

Hashimoto's Hypothyroidism Journey

This comprehensive overview of Hashimoto’s autoimmune disease is a great way to better understand this fairly widespread condition.

Cannabinoids in Context

Navigating the invisible systems that impact everyone’s cannabis experience is challenging, with myriad systems to explore so as to help craft one’s mental map and make beneficial health decisions.

Cannasmap

Experimentation can be fun but comprehending the actual benefits of the most effective cannabis strains and terpenes is key to alleviating symptoms from the top five health conditions.

Understanding Your Microbiome

Your microbiome—primarily the collection of bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microorganisms living in and on your body—plays a crucial role in your overall well-being and mental health.

PUBLISHING

Communicating complex stories is a challenge exacerbated by the continual flow of information. Smaps provide crucial visual context as a framework to explore whole systems and experience aha moments.

Elon Musk's Ethical Minefield

Elon Musk sits at the center of a galaxy of companies and business pursuits that benefit directly from the federal government while attempting to reduce its oversight.

The DOGE 100

Many DOGE officials, having made cuts to the federal agencies that regulated the technology industries where they were employed, are now working in those very same agencies.

Peter Thiel's Protégés

What do Trump’s picks for deputy secretary of Health and Human Services, “AI and crypto czar,” and ambassador to Denmark all have in common?

MKULTRA: The Hidden Hand | Part 1

The first in an interconnected 4-part series about complex systems by Joshua Stylman, this is a comprehensive study of how the government may have attempted to control the minds of citizens.

MKULTRA: The Hidden Hand | Part 2

The second in an interconnected 4-part series about complex systems by Joshua Stylman, this is a comprehensive study of how the government may have attempted to control the minds of citizens.

PayPal Mafia

That nickname was coined to describe a group of early PayPal founders and employees who went on to create or significantly influence some of the most successful technology companies. While seemingly referencing organized crime, it actually highlights their collective impact and entrepreneurial success after leaving PayPal.

SOCIETY

Societal issues often stem from systemic factors such as social, economic, or political conditions, requiring collective solutions based on shared understanding.

UN Human Rights

Since 1948, six key rights have been enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights. Visualizing them provides a framework to review the current perspectives of different countries to see who has ratified these rights and who hasn’t.

The Impact of AI

AI is a powerful tool with the potential to transform various aspects of society, but its impact is not without challenges.

Agricultural Automation

The introduction of robotic apple pickers has a profound impact on rural communities, with unintended consequences that must be seen to be believed.

Farm Life

Farms are complex systems that are essential to ensure that humanity is fed through the proper management of animals and crops.

Opioid Use Model

Opioid use is a serious global problem that many communities are struggling to manage, with overdoses causing over 75,000 deaths annually in the US alone. Causal loop diagrams are systems maps used to develop an understanding of a complex problem and guide the recommendation of potential solutions. In this case, the recommendation is to make Naloxone widely available to help prevent many of opioid overdose deaths.

EDUCATION

Since everything is a system and everyone is a systems thinker, teaching and learning about anything can be facilitated by the exploration of systems maps, even from a young age.

The Human Body

The human body is a complex system made of interacting subsystems, that interacts with its environment through senses, inputs, and outputs.

Sound Farm

One is never too young to start thinking in systems to make sense of the world and think about solutions to existing problems. Smaps make the experience even more fun by leveraging media resources, such as sounds.

Rabbit Population Growth

Causal loop diagrams are a specific type of systems maps used to understand complex feedback loops that drive behavior.

Starlight Rift: Chronicles of the Nines

In a distant quadrant of the galaxy, a mysterious cosmic phenomenon known as the Starlight Rift tears open the fabric of space-time, unleashing ancient powers, lost civilizations, and dangerous anomalies.

Coding Structures

Computer programming can seem daunting but, at the core, it boils down to a small set of core execution flow structures.