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In our experience, the general systems approach has provided a starting point for the study of myriad information systems,22 complex machines,23 social systems,24,25 individuals and work groups,26 and systems for education.27 Others have found the general systems approach useful in meteorology, political science, biology, sociology, psychiatry, ecology, engineering, and, in fact, just about any discipline with a name.
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
Gerald Weinberg
Authors theorize about some ancestry of my ideas, as if people read books then developed ideas, not wondering whether perhaps it is the other way around; people look for books that support their mental program.
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The word special is important to the naïve man, and he has special relationships with certain people. We all have some special relationships, but he surrounds the special person with a cloying kind of goodwill. The relationship is so special that he never examines the dark side of the person, which could be a son, a daughter, a wife, a male friend, a girlfriend. He accepts responses that are way off, conspires somehow with their dark side. “Some people are special,” he says.
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