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James Martin

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Apr 2, 2021, 1:33:31 PM4/2/21

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To what extent are these ideas relevant to SE? relevant to SS4SE?

https://daviding.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/2021-02-02-to-understand-this-era-you-need-to-think-in-systems-zeynep-tufekci-with-ezra-klein-new-york-times/

In conversation, @zeynep with @ezraklein reveal authentic #SystemsThinking in (i) appreciating that “science” is constructed by human collectives, (ii) the west orients towards individual outcomes rather than population levels; and (iii) there’s an over-emphasis on problems of the moment, and not enough on the history that brought us to that point.

Here are some notable excerpts:

EZRA KLEIN: What does it mean to think in systems? What’s even the alternative?
ZEYNEP TUFEKCI: When I say systems thinking, I’m saying looking at the whole and its interactions as much as possible to understand both each part of it, but also how it all comes together.