Systems Thinker Gifts

"The central digital platform is temporarily renamed Project Schrödinger’s Cat. Until it is accessed on the 24th February it both is and is not a working system."

Here's to Militant Apathy

The making of social security nets.

"Marshall, somewhere out there, just waiting for us, is a loophole in the system."

The Googler

"We can waste time and look for a solution or...just find a scapegoat?"

"That recruitment algorithm we’ve been using, I think we need to revisit it!"

When Engineers Crack.

"It looks like a perfectly balanced system to me."

How Trickle Down Economics Work

"My System 1 tells me she's articulate, capable, shrewd. My System 2 says BIMBO."

Can't you anarchists do anything within the system?

'He's working on the great American requirements document.'

"Our website design could be described as "organic"... in the sense that people often compare it to poop."

'So, how should we play this - capitalism or socialism?'

"These feelings of yours aren't unusual - in fact, several of them have Web sites."

"Until you're top management, Warrick, I strongly suggest you stay within the lines."

"We want maintenance insurance."

"The new system is 100% accurate as long as the client is called Colin and lives in Swindon."

"It seems our new computer system is allowing us to implement idiotic ideas ten times faster than we've previously been able to!"

'Well sure, if you want to get technical about it.'

'That's the worst video game idea I ever saw!'

They reached an evolutionary dead end.

"Of course, Perkins likes to think he can make it to the top outside the corporate structure."

Freedom Puppet

"Actually, I'm tired of the man trying to shape our minds so they fit into some pre-arranged societal widget."

'A surgeon operated on the wrong side of the operating room, and is being charged with medical feng shui malpractice.'

'The government is offering us financial incentives to offer out staff financial incentives to offer our customers financial incentives to come up withsome good ideas for financial incentives.'

Actualities - Dream of the inventor of the needle-gun on All Souls' Day

'I'm going to have to go with the leeches on this one....'

'We're trying for a baby!'

'I just upgraded to high definition thoughts but there's still nothin' on ...'

How corporate data wizards decide it's time to re-vamp everything...

'A hacker broke into our computer and, in an act of random kindness, organized all of our student files.'

'20,231 Google Citations...Therefore I am.' Descartes in the computer age.