Abhijit Pradhan

Why You Need Systems Thinking Now

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Business has made huge strides in advancing economic and social prosperity in recent decades through innovative technologies and new ways of working. But many of those innovations have costs. For example, plastics are used to make many convenient and low-cost consumer products, but they create huge problems for

How your company can adapt to a complex world.

Biodiversity Heritage Library

The metaphor for business organizations has long been the machine. Like machines, most companies are designed to create efficient, predictable outcomes; minimize risk; and eliminate variation. For decades this model—built on standardization, specialization, and

“If you’re MSCHF, you don’t have to be so precious. There’s always more ideas, always the next project., and if you just have that commitment not to censor yourself and put things out there, it’s a more generative way of thinking.”

-Lauren Boyle, Made by MSCHF

This article explores how David Foster Wallace foresaw the deep societal and personal crises emerging from our addiction to screens and digital entertainment, warning about loneliness, depression, loss of community, corporate control, and the need for kindness as a remedy.

Takeaways:

<ul class="list-disc pl-5"><li>Wallace predicted that screen