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# A system is rarely controlled by one secret hand;...
> A system is rarely controlled by one secret hand; it is often the emergent result of many participants responding to incentives, interfaces, reputations, constraints, and one another. Systems thinking replaces vague suspicion with a map of actual mechanisms.
**Source:** [[livestreams/Beyond the Rules — Systems Literacy and Unconventional Paths - Workbook|Beyond the Rules — Systems Literacy and Unconventional Paths]]
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“A system is rarely controlled by one secret hand; it is often the emergent result of many participants responding to incentives, interfaces, reputations, constraints, and one another. Systems thinking replaces vague suspicion with a map of actual mechanisms.”
— Bryant McGill
https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-system-rarely-controlled-map-actual-mechanisms
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