ΣMikoCare Systems
Systems in support of human flourishing.
MikoCare explores how people, technology, care, learning, creativity, organizations, resources, and infrastructure interact—and how better conditions can increase capability without unnecessarily consuming human capacity.
Life is primary. Systems participate within it.
MikoCare Systems — the practice
Human-centered systems inquiry and architecture for making complex operating ecologies more visible, increasing capability, and protecting human capacity.
Available for new projects. Small projects and focused consultations start at $150.
Mikoopolis — the playground
A living world for exploring MikoCare through story, play, experimentation, and the Living Novel system.
You are invited to play.
Miko Hargett — the person
Systems architect, author, and editor developing MikoCare through a 15-year longitudinal practice of observation, participation, making, and revision.
When the pieces aren’t adding up
Why does this keep recurring?
Why is this taking so much effort?
Why are capable people exhausted?
Why do the pieces work individually but not together?
Why does solving the problem here make it reappear somewhere else?
Sometimes the problem isn’t another missing solution. It’s that the operating ecology that hasn’t become visible yet.
MikoCare Reading Specimen
A live, lightweight test of MikoCare language, structure, readability, and participation.
Collaborate with Miko
I’m Miko Hargett, a human-centered systems architect, author, and editor. My work focuses on how organizations’ intended outcomes, operating arrangements, and participants’ lived realities fit together.
My contribution centers on systems inquiry, synthesis, facilitation, and architecture: making patterns and relationships visible, clarifying consequential questions, and developing recommendations that support continuity, agency, and human capacity.
My perspective draws on memory-care work, firsthand experience navigating fragmented support and breast-cancer recovery, and a 15-year longitudinal practice of observation, participation, making, and revision. The Living Novel and All By My Selfies are participatory systems developed through that practice.
My training includes the Integrative Health and Medicine Specialization from the University of Minnesota (completed February 2023) and Certified Trauma-Informed Coach through The Centre for Healing (November 2024). I completed Stanford University’s Introduction to Healthcare course in September 2020 and am continuing the AI in Healthcare specialization.
Collaboration can begin with a focused consultation, an architectural review, or a defined inquiry. Longer relationships may take the form of ongoing advisory, research collaboration, a residency, or sponsored fieldwork. Scope, compensation, and working arrangements are shaped around the contribution and mutual fit.
Start a collaboration conversation →
You can also copy this address into your email service: miko@mikocare.com.
Tell me, in plain language and whatever order feels natural: What’s happening? What are you working toward? Where are the friction points? Include any relevant timing or proposed arrangement. A polished brief is not required. If you would like more detail first, see what a small systems inquiry could look like.
I’ll review your note and reply about fit and possible next steps. Before any paid work begins, we’ll agree on the scope, contribution, compensation, and working arrangements.
Something important isn’t adding up?
Tell me what you’re seeing.
Tell me what’s happening, what you’re working toward, and where you’re encountering friction—in whatever order feels natural. If it looks like a fit, I’ll reply with next-step options.