Jamie Forrester

Jamie Forrester is an independent systems architect based in Edinburgh, UK.

His work focuses on structural diagnosis: understanding why the same failures keep returning inside organisations, institutions, products, and social systems. Rather than treating recurring problems as issues of motivation, communication, or execution, he studies the underlying architectures that make certain outcomes repeat.

Jamie writes about systems thinking, structural literacy, failure patterns, governance, incentives, coordination, and redesign. His work is built around a simple premise: when a problem keeps coming back, the visible issue is rarely the real one.

Seeing Systems is his entry point into structural literacy — a field guide for readers who want to understand the hidden structures shaping decisions, behaviour, organisations, and the world around them.