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136: Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows

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Working From Home - Is There a Channel?

Mental models is definitely there. I think it's really hard to know where to set these boundaries like this, even what i've been trying to think about with this whole task management thing that you put on me. Where do you set those lines? Yes. So one of the things she mentions in this chapter also is that structure is not only understanding what is happening, but why. And so as you are considering your inputs, you may have somebody at work who emails you, sends you a message on twitter and sends you a text message all in an effort to get your attention as quickly as possible. There's a system there which isn't congruent with the goal of communicating information

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