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"How do you deal with ignorance? I don’t mean how do you shut ignorance out. Rather, how do you deal with an awareness of what you don’t know, and you don’t kno
by arca_vorago 9y ago
"How do you deal with ignorance? I don’t mean how do you shut ignorance out. Rather, how do you deal with an awareness of what you don’t know, and you don’t know how to know, in dealing with a particular problem?"
I don't really like the rambling tone of the article which never really addresses it's central premise-questions.
Look, systems thinking is about thinking. Thinking is about how you were trained to think. To become a systems thinker, learn how to think better, how to think differently, how to think critically, and how to think logically. Now self-examine, correct problems, and repeat loop.
For example, the thing many elite schools teach that most others don't is the trivium and quadrivium approach to thinking.
Another trick is less tangible. Find brilliant people and learn from them. Learn what they do wrong, not just what they do right.
Finally, as a sysadmin, if you learn to think in a flowchart about just about any problem you will be fine... but the trick to that is to be specific about what the problem is.
- DyslexicAtheist 9y agoagree there are better authors to learn how to think: D. Kahneman, A. Tversky, D. Hofstaedter, D. Dennet, K Popper, B. Russell, K. Goedel, N. Taelb, ... if you are in this same echo-chamber as me I'd love to hear who I forgot My experience here is if you start with one of the above names (and are a fan of logic), you most likely end up reading all of them. (But maybe it's just me idk?)
- bcbrown 9y agoWittgenstein, Gerry Weinberg, Korzybsky, and The Systems Bible by John Gant. Gregory Bateson.
- dredmorbius 9y agoMeadows and Forester.
- dredmorbius 8y agoThat should be "Forrester".
- rdlecler1 9y agoSystems thinking is not just about thinking. It’s about understanding causality and feedback loops. Sometimes these things are hard to understand intuitively but can be better grasped with mathematics and network theory.
- matchagaucho 9y agoThe academic approach seems to portray systems as static, inflexible, snapshots in time. However, the formation of systems occurs over time; so the practical art to Systems Management involves understanding the rate of change, flexibility of inter-dependencies, and sustaining momentum.