{"id":14074,"date":"2020-05-21T08:31:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=14074"},"modified":"2020-05-21T08:33:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:33:25","slug":"systemantics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/systemantics\/","title":{"rendered":"Systemantics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published as <a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/systemantics\"><em>Systemantics<\/em><\/a>, the pun in the title carries the important message that systems have &#8220;antics&#8221; \u2014 they act up, misbehave, and have their own mind. The author is having fun with a serious subject, deciding rightly that a sense of humor and paradox are the only means to approach complexity. His insights come in the form of marvelously succinct rules of thumb, in the spirit of Murphy&#8217;s Law and the Peter Principle. This book made me 1) not worry about understanding a colossal system \u2014 you can&#8217;t, 2) realize I can change a system \u2014 by starting a new one, and 3) avoid starting new systems \u2014 they don&#8217;t go away.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson is that whatever complexity you are creating or have to work with \u2014 a website, a company, a robot, a tribe, a platform \u2014 is a system that will over time exhibit its own agenda. You need to understand the basic laws of systems, which this perennial book (now in its third edition) will cheerily instruct you.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How systems work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36198,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14074\/revisions\/36198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}