Introduction to Systems Thinking

A short primer for newcomers. The piece points out that we use the word "system" constantly — "no use bucking the system," "I need to establish a system" — without noticing that we are members of many systems at once (family, community, organisation, economy, biosphere). It then walks through the foundational moves of systems thinking: seeing wholes rather than parts, identifying feedback loops, distinguishing stocks from flows, and locating leverage points where small changes shift the system's behaviour.