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#Systems

Systems thinking is the habit of seeing the whole rather than the parts, and these posts apply it to technology and the structures technology sits inside. I write about feedback loops and unintended consequences, the way a local optimization can degrade the system it serves, and the architectural decisions that look like engineering but are really bets about how the world will change. The pieces here cover distributed systems as a technical discipline and systems analysis as a broader lens, taking in organizations, markets, and infrastructure as interdependent wholes. The thread is a refusal of the narrow view. A bug is rarely just a bug. It is a signal about the system that produced it, and the best engineers are the ones who can read the signal.