Systems and Delays
The author reflects on Donella Meadows' 'Thinking in Systems' by applying its concepts to a car dealership inventory model. The post explores how delivery delays and feedback loops impact system stability and decision-making in response to demand fluctuations.
Why it matters
Understanding system dynamics and the counterintuitive nature of delays is critical for optimizing supply chains, software architecture, and organizational management.
where delays are shown to be counterintuitive.
Leaving the house (and the country) for a week or two during the holiday season is a great time to get out of my stereotypical ways of passing free time (entirely too much YouTube, Lobste.rs, HackerNews and BlueSky) and try something else.
For my recent vacation I have packed some grid paper to make a bitmap font, and two books: the first one was Nachové pustiny : a Czech post-apocalyptic novel to get some inspiration for my “Fallout but in Czech Republic” MMO game , and the other was Thinking in Systems : a book recommended at work (and bought with my work education budget) which was collecting dust in my bookshelf for a good few months now.
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