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Johanna, CanCon variety
Johanna, CanCon variety
@johannab@cosocial.ca  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Today my multiple and discoordinated calendars saved me, for I have recursively subscribed to enough of them that I didn’t miss this #multisolving session RIGHT IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD!

Welcome to #waterlooregion @bethsawin, virtual or otherwise, you seem to have connected a network here.

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Johanna, CanCon variety
Johanna, CanCon variety
@johannab@cosocial.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

So I got in the door early enough to finally get my hands on a copy of Multisolving. And I discovered whoever designed the cover, whether they meant to do this or not, managed to hack my ADHD brain with the colour scheme.

See, my other recent on-paper (I read a lot on screen these days) acquisition that is probably the only foundational systems book I MUST get to a full read of before Multisolving is, of course, Thinking In Systems. The cover colour and art makes them look like Vol1/Vol2.

Two new paperback books, one is a later edition/print run of Donella Meadows' foundational work Thinking In Systems, the book cover picturing a rainbow gradient coloured Slinky toy. The second is the recent work Multisolving by Dr. Elizabeth Sawin, a protegé of Meadows. Multisolving's cover features a dot-art spray of bubbles floating up from a lightbulb-shaped collection of the dots, and the dots are coloured in a ROYGBV rainbow range. The books are nearly the same size and the colour of the cover background is a bright white on which the coloured motifs float.  The effect is that the later book very much appears to be a sequel or next instalment to the first. THIS is where I say my brain has been hacked, for I cannot consider my reading "finished" if I perceive this to be a 2-part work, until I finish both books.

Now I just need that extra 6 hours per day I've requested....
Two new paperback books, one is a later edition/print run of Donella Meadows' foundational work Thinking In Systems, the book cover picturing a rainbow gradient coloured Slinky toy. The second is the recent work Multisolving by Dr. Elizabeth Sawin, a protegé of Meadows. Multisolving's cover features a dot-art spray of bubbles floating up from a lightbulb-shaped collection of the dots, and the dots are coloured in a ROYGBV rainbow range. The books are nearly the same size and the colour of the cover background is a bright white on which the coloured motifs float. The effect is that the later book very much appears to be a sequel or next instalment to the first. THIS is where I say my brain has been hacked, for I cannot consider my reading "finished" if I perceive this to be a 2-part work, until I finish both books. Now I just need that extra 6 hours per day I've requested....
Two new paperback books, one is a later edition/print run of Donella Meadows' foundational work Thinking In Systems, the book cover picturing a rainbow gradient coloured Slinky toy. The second is the recent work Multisolving by Dr. Elizabeth Sawin, a protegé of Meadows. Multisolving's cover features a dot-art spray of bubbles floating up from a lightbulb-shaped collection of the dots, and the dots are coloured in a ROYGBV rainbow range. The books are nearly the same size and the colour of the cover background is a bright white on which the coloured motifs float. The effect is that the later book very much appears to be a sequel or next instalment to the first. THIS is where I say my brain has been hacked, for I cannot consider my reading "finished" if I perceive this to be a 2-part work, until I finish both books. Now I just need that extra 6 hours per day I've requested....
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Johanna, CanCon variety
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@johannab@cosocial.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

the "hack", given my brain, is that since they look like a 2-part series, I'm going to get yanked in to hyperfocusing until I get through both ...

Which might get me into trouble as I actually have a lot of assigned reading for classes, and while much of it calls back to Thinking In Systems as foundational, no prof has yet assigned that book (and the required time in the semester) as core reading!!!!

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