Systems and change - annie's blog

via Matt Weagle (@mweagle@hachyderm.io): “Mmmmmmmm, others. The ones who have always stood a little bit outside the system. Who could never quite adjust themselves to the right configuration to fit into the workings. Who have always felt a bit out of place. Who look at the systems, all of them, and wonder, Is this really the best we can do? “

Annie Mueller on how the systems we build to serve a goal eventually grow into mutant beasts whose only real purpose is their own survival — until the people no longer serve the goal, they serve the system. The sharpest part is her taxonomy of how people react when a system is threatened: those who can’t see the system as a system fight for it as if reality itself were crumbling, while those who recognize it as a structure imposed on reality are the only ones with the power to change it.

Systems and change - annie’s blog