Donella Meadows
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Pointing at the shift / mindset pairs / ways of being
- Core idea in systems thinking, discussed in Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows, among other places.
Podcast summaries
- 1:10:42 - 1:19:58 - Explaining how the hemispheres work using information processing/computation as a metaphor left hemisphere Categories, AI & Left Hemisphere it's the left hemisphere's job to have blindspots right hemisphere complexity systems thinking Donella Meadows resources for systems thinking
leverage points
- PLACES TO INTERVENE IN A SYSTEM
- (in increasing order of effectiveness)
- 12. Constants, parameters, numbers (such as subsidies, taxes, standards).
- 11. The sizes of buffers and other stabilizing stocks, relative to their flows.
- 10. The structure of material stocks and flows (such as transport networks, population age structures).
- 9. The lengths of delays, relative to the rate of system change.
- 8. The strength of negative feedback loops, relative to the impacts they are trying to correct against.
- 7. The gain around driving positive feedback loops.
- 6. The structure of information flows (who does and does not have access to information).
- 5. The rules of the system (such as incentives, punishments, constraints).
- 4. The power to add, change, evolve, or self-organize system structure.
- 3. The goals of the system.
- 2. The mindset or paradigm out of which the system — its goals, structure, rules, delays, parameters — arises.
- 1. The power to transcend paradigms.