System Wisdom - PDF eBook with Audiobook

The book that’ll help you unbreak the world.

Learn how to detect bozo problem solving in your business. 

Bozo problem solving can destroy your business and life. Bozos hide behind credentials, certifications, and titles. They offer complicated, expensive, and theoretical solutions to complex problems. System Wisdom teaches you how you can detect bozos through how they approach solving complex problems and how to mitigate their harm to your operations.

Stop messing things up with good intentions.

The car was designed to help you get to your destination faster. Yet in congested cities around the world, people spend more time in traffic than if they had just walked to their destination. System Wisdom explains why good intentions don't lead to good results in complex systems. 

Solve big problems by thinking small.

You've been raised to think that big problems need big solutions. Time after time, we've seen that big solutions don't work on big, complex problems. And no, contrary to everything you've been taught, putting humans on the moon wasn't a big and complex problem. Complex problems exist on a totally different scale from little problems like putting humans on the moon. 

About the author.

Atrin Assa has navigated complex systems while wearing many hats for over 13 years, in industries including: video games, personal computing, consumer electronics, microscopy, and data science.

Table of Contents

Everything is a system.

Is it simple, complicated, complex, or just plain nuts? 

Not working or not working as intended?

The importance of systems.

They want to control the bad.

Control the uncontrollable. 

The desire to do good.

They’ve got things to show.

Don’t look so clever.

Big ambition goes nowhere.

Crystal balls.

Take a different approach.

Left with broken things.

New isn’t simple.

The “why” isn’t important. 

Forget the logic.

Discomfort is your edge.