The Five Pillars of Systems Thinking: Communication, People, Objectives, Metrics, and Networks
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This was perfect. Thank you! I've felt like I was a systems thinker but now can see that I'm really weak in a few of the pillars. This gave a beautiful overview of where my weaknesses are and what I need to do to fix them, and with a clearer picture of everything as well. Huge gratitude and appreciation. 👏👏👏
Yeah man, that was what really shocked me - just how practical these skills are to practice. Once you nail these five clusters, the rest will fall into place.
@@Systems.Thinking huge ask - what are the chances of us getting a PDF download of your slides here? I'd like to have this handy, so I could take screenshots and do it myself but I think others might find it highly valuable as well.
Thanks for the great value Dave❤. I think this way of thinking is what is needed in our evolution from reductionism to the next paradigm in understanding this data rich new world. Ur videos are very much appreciated and somehow serves as an anchor in this AI/Blockchain/Data/API whirlwind the algorithm is pushing me through.❤
Powerful. Thank you.
Awesome video Dave. I am so glad that this niche topic is getting the coverage it deserves.
Thank you for sharing so much. You are changing my way of thinking in a very special way.
I realize that System Thinkers have a natural knack in these areas/skills, so eventually choose life paths that hones the pillars in a specific subject, making us really good at identifying, processing, linking unlikely variables and solving problems. It’s not a career or field of work, it’s a personality, character, lifestyle and deep intuitive knowledge and sense that leads one to the field or career. It’s a unique talent and gift.
Listening to these, I think I’m not a systems thinker but I’d like to have the makings of one. The most significant thing is that I have extremely diverse and varied interests, and am effectively able to draw parallels or make connections between seeming unrelated fields. However I am not yet strong at communicating these things, so it just lives in my head. The thinking part is what comes more naturally to me, application and communication of the thinking not so much. Will work on these pillars! Thanks David~
You’re an excellent communicator. Funny, at the start of listening to your videos, I thought how an effective communicator you’re were and how I would like to speak or present as effective.
Very informative!
Thanks!
You have raised the bar on RUclips 🫡
A video on how you conduct good documentation from a systems thinking approach might be helpful for organizations and teams? Thanks so much for this!
That's a great idea, I'll add it to the backlog. I'm going to unpack each of these pillars one at a time, and good documentation is definitely part of good communication!
It'd be cool to see your prompts for the background images 🤙
Very interesting video. To me, this broad description of "systems thinking" sounds more-or-less synonymous to intelligent thinking. To help define the specific scope of systems thinking, it would be great to hear you maybe identify and characterize other modes of thinking (i.e. deliberative cognition rather than intuition, instinct or reflex) that are not "systems thinking" in your definition, but are nevertheless intelligent to the extent that they are productive and help to orient humans in the world (that is, if you think that such alternative modes exist). Apologies if you've already done this in a prior video that I missed.
I see where you're coming from but I don't think it's a good use of time. I'm not trying to survey the entire landscape of "all kinds of thinking" that's not the mission here. The mission is to dive deep into systems thinking.
Not that college can't be useful but I've learned more watching your RUclips channels than 4 years in college (most likely because I was immature and didn't apply myself😂) thank you again🤝
It's all about the right modality and resonance. Learning by responding to natural curiosity is better than force feeding IMHO
That is a very insightful analysis, and a few new questions come to my mind now.
Is systems thinking an inate human skill/talent or is it only emerging with the right conditions? I.e. certain learning opportunities, or specific brain development?
At what point did humanity become (capable of) systems thinkers? Do any other animals show traits of systems thinkers?
If metrics are important, would you say that primitive tribes without number systems were incapable of systems thinking or just inefficient systems thinkers?
I think of systems thinking like literacy. Our brains are flexible enough to learn it, but it is not an instinct. At least, not for everyone. And even for those of who do find it more instinctive, it bears practicing and refining, like all skills.
understanding people vs communicating with them... one example also is trying to understanding how relationships work without actually trying to be in one (may or may not be personal example😂)
Listening to your series, I've come to wonder if the really productive philosopher is actually the guy you described as the multi domain thinker. Another way of saying that to think usefully we must be aware of the last results science provides and understands them. How many people are capable of that? Would AI help?
Transdisciplinary thinking has far higher utility than monotropic thinking. Yes.
Here's a good prompt, "What few questions can I ask to test knowledge of how farming interplays between land, climate, economics, logistics, biology and culture, at a pre-grad level?" 🙏
i did not know what systems thinking was before this, but i understand you had to learn how to apply systems thinking to learn about systems thinking from other systems thinkers 🤔
Yo dawg I heard you like systems thinking...
@@Systems.Thinkingif i didnt before, i sure do now 😊
Wjere can i get those slides
I stopped sharing them because very few people cared.
Communicating with non-system thinkers is frustrating.
I am pro UBI, but I get confused trying to figure out what would be fair with it.
How does a wealthy person who has lots of assets go on UBI after losing their job? Let's say there is a lawyer making $500k per year. Obviously they have monthly debt in probably in the tens of thousands of dollars because that's the lifestyle they prepared themselves for. Nothing wrong with that. I don't think UBI is going to cover their debt, their expensive home maintenance, electricity, etc, etc, etc. If a.i. takes 90% of the jobs, then it will be highly unlikely for a person to be able to make enough to maintain that lifestyle. Does that person/family downgrade? Who buys the house? It sure seems like in order for it to be "fair" we'd all have to end up with the same stuff, and that just seems awful.
What I think is WORSE, is if it does take care of those people the same as it takes care of the poor. I don't like the idea of UBI giving a doctor not working more pay than a dish washer not working.
I want to make it work in my head, but I just don't see how in a society of humans it works. A.i. could force it to work, but I don't know that that's a good thing.
I figure it's in the name, Universal and Basic. A big part of the appeal of the model is that it has much lower administrative costs because you don't have entire departments dedicated to snooping to decide whether someone "deserves" it, you just send them a check and maybe have some failsafes to ensure no one's taking 100 home using fake identities. If the basic income doesn't cover a Lawyer's lifestyle expenses, it's now their prerogative to supplement that UBI - the state isn't forcing them to own a house or eat out 3 times a week, that is their choice. With AI in the equation, this becomes more a matter of the transitional period between when people with high-maintenance lives are no longer allowed to work enough to afford them and when automation makes things so cheap that the pauper on every corner can afford the Lawyer's lifestyle pre-transition.
To put it another way, UBI has historically been intended as a safety net and nothing more. It shifts focus a bit in the context of AI because now it's no longer really a safety net - almost no one can work, so everyone is relying on UBI for their basic needs. This suggests a fundamental shift in how the economy works, essentially granting people a stipend representing their abstract value to society, forcing the gears of the economic money pump to continue churning despite humans no longer hauling the plow, so to speak. With heavy automation, the relative spending power of this stipend is so high anyone short of a literal billionaire could afford the lifestyle of their choosing without even working.
@@consciouscode8150 Yeah, that still doesn't make any sense. "anyone short of a literal billionaire could afford the lifestyle of their choosing without even working.", how do you fathom that? Don't you think most everyone would choose to have private jets, yachts, lavish vacations, etc, etc if they could choose it?
I think it's much more likely most of us end up as poor slaves to a.i., the same way we are slaves to our country.
If I'm super a.i., I'm going to realize people need to work. They literally need it. Why build robots when there are already billions of self replicating robots here it can utilize.
UBI will be food stamps.