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You Can't Fuck the System If You've Never Met One by Casey A. Gollan -
Part of the reason systems are hard to see is because they’re an abstraction. They don’t really exist until you articulate them.
And any two things don’t make a system, even where there are strong correlations. Towns with more trees have lower divorce rates, for example, but you’d be hard-pressed to go anywhere with that.
However, if you can manage to divine the secret connections and interdependencies between things, it’s like putting on glasses for the first time. Your headache goes away and you can focus on how you want to change things.
I learned that in systems analysis — if you’d like to change the world — there is a sweet spot between low and high level thinking. In this space you are not dumbfoundedly adjusting variables…nor are you contemplating the void.
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