Harvest the Signal

Jodilyn Owen
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Every recurring problem is a system until proven otherwise. Harvest the Signal explores the invisible systems that shape healthcare, leadership, and everyday life. Some episodes are audio editions of the accompanying field note, with a brief listener-only reflection, while others are conversations and deeper explorations of the ideas behind them. Whether you're listening to an essay or a longer discussion, each episode is designed to help you see the patterns beneath there problems and the systems beneath the stories.

Episodes

  1. Aug 18

    010 · TheThe Highest Use of Us

    What is AI actually for? Most conversations begin by asking where AI belongs in healthcare. In this episode, I argue we've skipped the more important question: Why are we bringing it in at all? I believe the answer isn't productivity or efficiency. It'...

    010 · TheThe Highest Use of Us

  2. Aug 14

    003 · The Nurse in the Stair Closet

    The Nurse in the Stair Closet In 1902, New York City had a problem. Doctors were finding thousands of sick schoolchildren. The children were sent home. Many never came back. The city had become remarkably good at measuring the beginning of care while o...

  3. Aug 14

    009 · The Shock Absorber

    A scheduling error sent my husband and me to the right bank branch and the person we were supposed to meet to the wrong one. The front desk employee was kind, helpful, and ready to solve the problem. And that almost made the evidence disappear. In this...

    009 · The Shock Absorber

  4. Aug 14

    008 · HtS Expertise Across the Street

    American healthcare is trying to redesign postpartum care. But what if the expertise we need to launch that re-design is already across the street? In this Field Note, I put on both my midwife and systems hats to look at what independent midwifery has ...

  5. Aug 12

    007 · The Best Don't Make Fewer Mistakes

    In 1942, the Royal Navy was losing ships across the Atlantic faster than they could replace them. So they built a giant grid on the floor of a room in Liverpool. What happened on that floor offers a lesson that reaches far beyond wartime strategy: the ...

  6. Aug 12

    006 Feedback Is Infrastructure

    We tend to think of feedback as something we collect: surveys, complaints, dashboards, patient stories, denied claims, performance reviews. But what if collecting feedback isn't the hard part? In this Field Note, I explore a different question: What is...

    006 Feedback Is Infrastructure

  7. Aug 12

    005 · 20 Years One Time, or One Year 20 Times

    In the late 1800s, Adelaide Nutting looked at nursing education and saw something others had learned to accept: hospitals were confusing labor with learning. Her first move wasn't an inspirational speech. It was arithmetic. That distinction turns out t...

  8. Aug 12

    004 · It's Not About the Money, Honey.

    Three questions about money changed how millions of people think about financial literacy. I don't think they're really about money. They're about three invisible forces that shape almost everything: compounding, erosion, and resilience. In this Field ...

  9. Aug 11

    002 · Day Two

    On August 14, 2022, I opened Couch to 5K and went for my first run. I didn’t finish it. Instead, I got hit from behind by a bicycle. Three years, five months, and eight days later, I opened the app again. Day Two. This Field Note is about what happened...

    002 · Day Two

  10. Aug 4

    001 · Every Recurring Problem is a System

    Florence Nightingale is remembered as the lady with the lamp. She should also be remembered as one of history's greatest systems thinkers. In this inaugural episode of Harvest the Signal, Jodilyn Owen explores why recurring problems are often evidence ...

    001 · Every Recurring Problem is a System

  11. Jul 24

    000 · Welcome · Our Origin Story.

    Harvest the Signal started with nearly 2,800 fragments: questions, stories, observations, patterns, and ideas I had been collecting for years. When I built an AI-powered application I call the IdeoGraph to make sense of them, one pattern kept surfacing...

    000 · Welcome · Our Origin Story.
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About

Every recurring problem is a system until proven otherwise. Harvest the Signal explores the invisible systems that shape healthcare, leadership, and everyday life. Some episodes are audio editions of the accompanying field note, with a brief listener-only reflection, while others are conversations and deeper explorations of the ideas behind them. Whether you're listening to an essay or a longer discussion, each episode is designed to help you see the patterns beneath there problems and the systems beneath the stories.

Information

  • Creator
    Jodilyn Owen
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    11
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Harvest the Signal
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