Essays

Dammit! You did it again. You clicked. You bit the bait. But don’t worry, I promise this will actually be useful (unlike the majority of articles you click on). If you’re like me, you noticed the sheer flood of clickbait on the internet at large and Medium in particular. With every second headline, you get the feeling that you’ve seen it before: “I [did some activity] for [number of days]. Here’s what happened....

Our world is nothing but a system with countless sub-systems. A system is a group of elements or variables that interact and interrelate with one another. In our own lives and society as a whole we create systems to organize us towards defined goals. A good system makes us succeed in reaching those goals while a system fails if it leads to unintended negative consequences. Everything is a system in society, your daily routines, how your workplace is structured and how our governments are set up....