<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Doubt | kaguc — Writing to understand systems.</title><link>http://kaguc.com/tag/doubt/</link><atom:link href="http://kaguc.com/tag/doubt/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description>Doubt</description><generator>Hugo Blox Builder (https://hugoblox.com)</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><image><url>http://kaguc.com/media/logo.svg</url><title>Doubt</title><link>http://kaguc.com/tag/doubt/</link></image><item><title>Systems thinking, edge case</title><link>http://kaguc.com/notes/systems-thinking-as-hammer/</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://kaguc.com/notes/systems-thinking-as-hammer/</guid><description>&lt;p>The thing nobody mentions about &amp;ldquo;systems thinking&amp;rdquo; is that it can become
&lt;em>the&lt;/em> lens — i.e. the next universal hammer.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>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&amp;rsquo;t. It was just three people who hadn&amp;rsquo;t slept enough.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The discipline isn&amp;rsquo;t to use systems thinking. It&amp;rsquo;s to know when &lt;em>not&lt;/em> to.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>