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A deep dive into Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows.
Place a Slinky on an open palm, hold it at the top, then take away the hand underneath: it drops, springs back, oscillates. Do the same with the toy's cardboard box, same hand: nothing happens. The answer is not in the hand, it is in the spring. A system largely causes its own behavior. Political leaders do not really cause recessions or booms, and the flu virus does not attack you: you offer it the conditions it needs to thrive. Every time the explanation is external, there is an internal structure that has gone unexamined. Letting go…
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