I like this idea. Life is like an app: get in your Settings and start flipping or maybe its more like stepper/sliders that slightly resist accidental swipes and changes but allows for gradual modulation any which way given enough duration and sufficient force
Systems thinking is my superpower, and funny enough, I'm convinced I started doing it to deal with a brain that seems to easily become overwhelmed. As an example, it can be overwhelming to try to individually understand the participants in the US economy, their motivations, and the consequences of their actions. Some people excel at ingesting, memorizing, and understanding large amounts of information like this. For me, the solution was to compress this information into something I can hold in my mind's eye by understanding the underlying systems and realizing that something that seems complex is actually a beautiful and relatively simple machine. Do this enough, and you start to think like this by default and quickly realize that everything is a machine of sorts, and some of them could benefit from a few new parts.
For anyone who wants to read more about this skill and work to develop it on their own, "Thinking in Systems" by Donella Meadows is a great book on the topic.
Everything from developing retail products to business decisions to my day job. As an example, my day job is a director-level role with a team under my supervision. We're a relatively small team with a large amount of responsibility, and systems thinking has been useful in figuring out where and why we have bottlenecks, how we can modify the system to find efficiencies, and how the department can be more easily scalable when necessary to satisfy increasing demand.
Maybe instead of flipping bits, do a soft transition between 0 and 1. This will make it easier for people to accept your idea.
Things rarely happen but they are always happening
I like this idea. Life is like an app: get in your Settings and start flipping or maybe its more like stepper/sliders that slightly resist accidental swipes and changes but allows for gradual modulation any which way given enough duration and sufficient force
Systems thinking is my superpower, and funny enough, I'm convinced I started doing it to deal with a brain that seems to easily become overwhelmed. As an example, it can be overwhelming to try to individually understand the participants in the US economy, their motivations, and the consequences of their actions. Some people excel at ingesting, memorizing, and understanding large amounts of information like this. For me, the solution was to compress this information into something I can hold in my mind's eye by understanding the underlying systems and realizing that something that seems complex is actually a beautiful and relatively simple machine. Do this enough, and you start to think like this by default and quickly realize that everything is a machine of sorts, and some of them could benefit from a few new parts.
For anyone who wants to read more about this skill and work to develop it on their own, "Thinking in Systems" by Donella Meadows is a great book on the topic.
How have you applied this in your life?
Everything from developing retail products to business decisions to my day job. As an example, my day job is a director-level role with a team under my supervision. We're a relatively small team with a large amount of responsibility, and systems thinking has been useful in figuring out where and why we have bottlenecks, how we can modify the system to find efficiencies, and how the department can be more easily scalable when necessary to satisfy increasing demand.