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Summary of Donella Meadows' “Thinking in Systems” (2009)

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Re: Summary of Donella Meadows' “Thinking in Systems” (2009)

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Judging by the post and your pinned tweet, I think you would like what we're doing at Kumu. http://kumu.io/manifesto

What's with the down votes?

We've built a platform that helps people diagram, explore, and share the complex systems Donella talks about. Her work has been a major influence on Kumu and we even have a quote of hers on the manifesto.

Re: Summary of Donella Meadows' “Thinking in Systems” (2009)

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Judging by the post and your pinned tweet, I think you would like what we're doing at Kumu. http://kumu.io/manifesto

What's with the down votes? We've built a platform that helps people diagram, explore, and share the complex systems Donella talks about. Her work has been a major influence on Kumu and we even have a quote of hers on the manifesto.

Self-promotion / employment solicitation is generally strongly frowned on. I'm finding your comment relevant and have moderated accordingly. Providing a bit more by way of detail on what you're doing and what specifically you're focusing on would be helpful -- the website's a tad vague on that.

It's also almost always an error to comment on downvotes themselves on your own comments or posts.

Re: Summary of Donella Meadows' “Thinking in Systems” (2009)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's with the down votes? We've built a platform that helps people diagram, explore, and share the complex systems Donella talks about. Her work has been a major influence on Kumu and we even have a quote of hers on the manifesto.

Self-promotion / employment solicitation is generally strongly frowned on. I'm finding your comment relevant and have moderated accordingly. Providing a bit more by way of detail on what you're doing and what specifically you're focusing on would be helpful -- the website's a tad vague on that. It's also almost always an error to comment on downvotes themselves on your own comments or posts.

Strongly disagree: people here are OK with capitalism in general, and with promoting things we have worked hard to create, as long as it's appropriate for the conversation.

Re: Summary of Donella Meadows' “Thinking in Systems” (2009)

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Judging by the post and your pinned tweet, I think you would like what we're doing at Kumu. http://kumu.io/manifesto

What's with the down votes? We've built a platform that helps people diagram, explore, and share the complex systems Donella talks about. Her work has been a major influence on Kumu and we even have a quote of hers on the manifesto.

My guess (I didn't downvote) is you would have fewer downvotes if you a) addressed the comment readers in general rather than the poster of the article in specific, and b) explained "what we're doing at Kumu" that is relevant to either the article or the audience.

Your linked manifesto shows that you care about similar issues to Donella Meadows and the OP, but doesn't shed any light on what Kumu is or why the audience would be interested in it.

I had to browse to your front page to discover that you appear to make a diagramming tool for causal loop diagrams along other things, which is relevant and potentially useful to people interested in systems thinking. I've bookmarked it and will try it out sometime!

Your follow-up comment protesting the downvotes was a lot more informative than the comment being downvoted :)

Re: Summary of Donella Meadows' “Thinking in Systems” (2009)

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I just finished reading her book, and I am trying to dig into this field to learn more about it, as I consider it pretty interesting. I am still surprised that we don't teach it at school (high school). I want to believe it will happen in the next 20-25 years.

You might be interested in the work that the Waters Foundation is doing: http://watersfoundation.org/

Brilliant! I hope that more schools will follow/join.
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