Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Why this matters here

Donella Meadows’s Thinking in Systems explains how delays between action and feedback distort learning in complex systems—people keep intervening on outdated information while consequences arrive late or elsewhere. Coupling uses that delay problem for software and AI acceleration: release speed can compress authoring time while the return path from runtime consequence to decision stays long or opaque. Meadows supplies the systems vocabulary of delayed feedback; the book asks what happens when assisted speed widens that gap further.