# Systems thinking, edge case

> A doubt I have not resolved.

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- Date: 2026-05-22


The thing nobody mentions about "systems thinking" is that it can become
*the* lens — i.e. the next universal hammer.

I caught myself this week treating a deeply specific problem (a particular
failure of a particular team) as if it were an instance of a feedback loop.
It wasn't. It was just three people who hadn't slept enough.

The discipline isn't to use systems thinking. It's to know when *not* to.