Systems Thinking

Metaphors rooted in feedback loops, emergence, and interconnected wholes rather than isolated parts.

Mappings (17)

• A Place to Wait conceptual-metaphor
• Big Ball of Mud conceptual-metaphor
• Bottleneck dead-metaphor
• Creative Process Is Construction conceptual-metaphor
• Creative Process Is Gardening conceptual-metaphor
• Data Flow Is Fluid Flow paradigm
• Everything Is a File paradigm
• Intimacy Gradient conceptual-metaphor
• Light on Two Sides conceptual-metaphor
• Orphan Process dead-metaphor
• Race Condition dead-metaphor
• Software Rot dead-metaphor
• Survival of the Fittest paradigm
• The Commons archetype
• The Map Is Not the Territory paradigm
• The Pipeline Pattern archetype
• Zombie Process dead-metaphor