Industrial Dynamics
Forrester, J.W.
Where system dynamics began. Everything I believe about feedback loops traces here.
Not a canon. A root system.
Where system dynamics began. Everything I believe about feedback loops traces here.
The book I hand people when they ask what 'systems thinking' means.
The system dynamics bible. The class that rewired how I see organizations traces to this.
Operations as a novel. I think about constraints and bottlenecks every working day — this is why.
I watch this happen from inside a warehouse. The paper that explains my day job.
The more you automate, the more the human matters. I build automation for a living — this one keeps me honest.
Bounded rationality. People satisfice — systems should be designed for the people we are.
Still the foundation under everything I read about decisions.
How people actually decide under pressure — the field-study counterweight to Kahneman's lab.
Why masters see the board differently. I'm studying my own games trying to catch this happening.
Maia — engines that predict human moves instead of best moves. Chess as a lab for human-AI interaction.
How to talk to customers without them lying to you. Re-reading as I interview other small wholesalers.
For the founder ambition. No recipes, just scar tissue.
A Portland operator story. Building something real is mostly chaos held together by stubbornness.
A hundred pages distilling civilizations. I'm fascinated by how decisions compound across centuries.
I work at a tea company. This one's required — and it turned out to be a philosophy book in disguise.