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sethdmichaels.bsky.social · @sethdmichaels.bsky.social@bridge.neodb.net

Rated Thinking in Systems, A primer, Donella H. Meadows 8/10

very interesting, though i think a lot of the insights of this book are less striking now than they may have been in the 1990s when Meadows was first writing it. the fact that some of this mode of analysis feels familiar and baked-in or like common sense is a tribute to Meadows and her peers. interesting politics here - it's like an argument made to technocrats from a technocratic-eye-view about the importance of skepticism of technocracy, and while some of it reads conservative she's also explicitly hostile to the Reagan-era ideological paradigm shift. a lot of insights here that feel very relevant today, in an era of both sclerotic, fumbling systems and authoritarian attacks on them.

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Published 2026-08-18 21:22 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere