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by draygonia 107 days ago
Reminds me of this quote... “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.”
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Seconded.

Someone once described Systemantics as the book that systwm designers read under the covers at night with a torch.

or should do!
Reading it now on Kindle Scribe without the help of AI ;-).

When I am done, I might simply replace SOUL.md with it and move on.

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4904457M/Systemantics

(Systemantics is available for borrowing, Systems Bible is not yet, a copy has been sent for digitizing)