Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World

I’ll be honest: I have no idea what this woman was talking about. I couldn’t make heads or tails of this book.

It was promoted as a book to frame technology. That was an attractive idea to me, I guess. But what I read was a mess.

Here are the chapter names:

1. Systems
2. Scale
3. Legacy
4. Matter
5. Deviance
6. Breakage

I mean, that right there tells you the level of abstraction we’re talking about here. Do those six categories explain technology at any level?

…I don’t know?

Every chapter had a central analogy about some real-world system, but in now way could I figure out how this related to the central topic of the chapter.

The book made me feel dumb, and I don’t know if it was just poorly written, or so smart it went way over my head. That can’t be a good sign, either way.

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