systems thinking
as long as we build our groups like machines - with interchangeable parts, standardised processes, and measurable outcomes - we will continue to feel lonely, even among people who understand us.
We have built our lives like grids, not like trees. We wear our roles like uniforms - not as chosen expressions, but as inherited ones. And when we try to
... See moreAnna Branten • We Were Never Meant to Be Complete
I think there are things in life that you want to telescope and compress and accelerate and streamline and make more efficient. And there are things where the value is precisely in the inefficiency, in the time spent, in the pain endured, in the effort you have to invest. And I don’t think we’re going to differentiate between those things. Because... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
Words and sentences must, by necessity, come only one at a time in linear, logical order. Systems happen all at once. They are connected not just in one direction, but in many directions simultaneously. To discuss them properly, it is necessary somehow to use a language that shares some of the same properties as the phenomena under discussion.
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems
Systems that do not respond to what is happening in the world right now are not systems that need to be overthrown – they are already dying from their own irrelevance.
War, fascism, climate breakdown, ecological collapse, obscene inequality tearing societies apart – and the systems let it... See more
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