tag: SystemsThinking

Every honeybee larva starts with the same genes, and its food decides whether it becomes a queen. Twenty thousand human genes, a DNA kit that looks for one key, and a yeast factory that stood idle.

Twenty-three cats parachuted into Borneo in 1960 to repair a malaria fix, five definitions of a system, and what systems thinking asks before the next fix: where the cost will show up, and when.