“2. CONNECTEDNESS
What does all this have to do with systems? Just this, that if I design a system with no regard for the universe that surrounds it, I will have scanty knowledge of what can impact* it. That is not a formula for success. To fit my system in to the larger system of systems around it, I must go to the next higher level of recursion”
— John Gall, How to Use Conscious Purpose Without Wrecking Everything
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