{"id":2374,"date":"2017-03-20T20:33:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T04:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chrisrivard.com\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2017-03-20T20:33:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T04:33:52","slug":"thinking-in-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/thinking-in-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking in Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4 from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B005VSRFEA\/ref=r_soa_w_d\">Thinking in Systems, A Primer<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first step in respecting language is keeping it as concrete, meaningful, and truthful as possible\u2014part of the job of keeping information streams clear. The second step is to enlarge language to make it consistent with our enlarged understanding of systems.<\/p>\n<p>Our culture, obsessed with numbers, has given us the idea that what we can measure is more important than what we can\u2019t measure.<\/p>\n<p>Be a quality detector. Be a walking, noisy Geiger counter that registers the presence or absence of quality.<\/p>\n<p>If something is ugly, say so. If it is tacky, inappropriate, out of proportion, unsustainable, morally degrading, ecologically impoverishing, or humanly demeaning, don\u2019t let it pass. Don\u2019t be stopped by the \u201cif you can\u2019t define it and measure it, I don\u2019t have to pay attention to it\u201d ploy. No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren\u2019t designed to produce them, if we don\u2019t speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 from Thinking in Systems, A Primer The first step in respecting language is keeping it as concrete, meaningful, and truthful as possible\u2014part of the job of keeping information streams clear. The second step is to enlarge language to make it consistent with our enlarged understanding of systems. Our culture, obsessed with numbers, has given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sartor-resartus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}