Places to Intervene in Systems
November 22, 2024 • #Donella Meadows on places to intervene in systems.
Topic / systems
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October 17, 2024 • #
Gratitude is how we maintain the fragile, critical systems of relationships that come to our rescue when things go bad. Strong institutions get that way through the effortful work of the grateful to nurture them on.
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Gratitude and Resilience
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Riffing on one of my favorite quotes, from Calvin Coolidge:
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The Other Side of Complexity
February 9, 2024 • #Passing over the hill of complexity.
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Simplifying with Gall's Law
October 25, 2023 • #On the newsletter, we dive into Gall's Law, and the simplicity to complexity workflow.
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The Whole Earth Index
October 17, 2023 • #The full archive of the Whole Earth Catalog.
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Pond Brains and GPT-4
April 28, 2023 • #How ecosystems are smarter than we are.
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Mycopunk Principles
April 25, 2023 • #Applying principles and phenomena of mycelial networks to other types of systems.
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The Simplest Thing
September 20, 2022 • #Sometimes the best way to find a breakthrough on a problem is to do the simplest thing, not necessarily the cleanest, best, or most complex.
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The Midwit Trap
September 2, 2022 • #Seek out simple solutions over complex ones.
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Scenes, Pattern Languages,and Nested Systems
August 22, 2022 • #Similarities between systems for writing, pattern languages, design tools, and other networked
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Systems and Constraints
August 18, 2020 • #A brief interview with Alicia Juarrero on the properties of complex systems.
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Measuring Productivity
July 30, 2020 • #Thinking about productivity and optimization of systems with a two-dimensional model of scale-to-throughput.
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Synthetic A Priori
July 9, 2020 • #A new podcast on design and systems thinking from Ryan Singer.
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The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up
November 19, 2019 • #Florent Crivello on the differences between orderliness and efficiency.
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