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Awesome. Pretty much the only book I partially read on systems thinking was introduction to cybernetics by Ross Ashby. http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/IntroCyb

• jacques_chester 6y ago
  Ashby's book is pretty decent, considering that Cybernetics as a field can feel unapproachable to lay folk. In terms of DNA, cybernetics and systems dynamics both draw deeply from the well of early control 20th-century theory and so there are some conceptual overlaps. In relative terms I think cybernetics does a better job of surfacing the contributions of information theory and system dynamics does a better job of surfacing the impact of stocks and flows on overall dynamics (as its name would suggest).