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136: Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows

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Why Systems Surprise Us

Everything we think we know about the world is a model. Our models usually have a strong congruence with the world. And number three, our models fall short of representing the world fully. That's why we get surprised by systems. If you really understand why you get surprised, and you want to understand how these models really work, that's the place i would ppoint people to go next.

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