dashtaisen 's review for:

Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows

4.5

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

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I came by this book through Sheryl Cababa’s “Closing The Loop”, and I’m glad I read them both. In any institution, particularly tech, it’s easy to feel like the predominant approach to problem-solving is the right one, despite the mounting evidence to  the contrary. This book is a helpful challenge to that — I especially appreciated the suggestions to embrace complexity, focus on useful (not just quantitative) data, and be skeptical of applying mental models from one domain or use case to another