Kyle Harrison
to-read
Thinking in Systems
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
- Author
- Donella H. Meadows
- Published
- 2008
- Pages
- 240
- Recommended
- 4 times
Why it’s on the list: Donella Meadows’s primer on systems thinking — stocks, flows, feedback loops and the leverage points where a small change moves a whole system.
Where I heard about it
- How To Be a Capitalist Without Any Capital — the top recommended systems book in its systems-thinking chapter.
- @WillManidis’s thread — named in the replies to his question “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?”, listed as “Systems Thinking by Donella Meadows”, June 2025. Full set of replies: what is the single best book… (tweet).
- Recommended at Capital Camp 2019, as listed in A Berg’s Eye View’s “Lessons (and Books) from Camp”, saved by Kyle in April 2020 — Lessons and Books From Camp (A Berg’s Eye View).
- In Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s Full Reading List (Investor Field Guide, 2016) — the archive of his monthly book-club recommendations, saved by Kyle in April 2020 — Full Reading List (Investor Field Guide).
Connections
- How To Be a Capitalist Without Any Capital — where this book is cited.
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — recommendation #2: named in this crowd-sourced thread.