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Donella H. Meadows: Thinking in systems (2008, Chelsea) 4 stars

Meadows’ Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem …

so appreciative of this book

4 stars

This book is used in a few different classes at mpow, and I’m glad it is. I’m giving a talk on Monday about how leaders are catalysts for change, and I am going to be meditating on a few of the ideas presented here - in particular, the need to break out of our positionality & perspective to change things in a non-destructive manner. It’s very prescient of the time we’re in now, and sad to think about how its warnings have been unheeded by engineers & technologists at a point where we’re more reliant on & worshipping of shitty models than ever.