{"id":495,"date":"2012-04-21T00:41:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T00:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=495"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:03:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T22:03:14","slug":"a-top-ten-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-top-ten-list\/","title":{"rendered":"A Top Ten List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a tendency in this &#8220;Information Age&#8221; to assume that everything we need to know has been written\/created in the last couple of months.\u00a0 This is, of course, patent nonsense however in some subjects there is a rather unfortunate tendency to forget all of the huge wealth of knowledge and wisdom we have from times before &#8230; well before 2012!!<\/p>\n<p>I came across an article written in 2001 (which I know isn&#8217;t that old) which is actually in a style that is currently very popular &#8211; i.e. &#8220;N things you need to know about&#8230;&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; often not a terribly useful way of addressing a subject, but just occasionally someone will get it right.\u00a0 This particular one is called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.futurist.com\/2011\/01\/11\/10-useful-ideas-on-systems-thinking\/\">10 Useful Ideas on Systems Thinking<\/a>\u00a0and is well worth a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a tendency in this &#8220;Information Age&#8221; to assume that everything we need to know has been written\/created in the last couple of months.\u00a0 This is, of course, patent nonsense however in some subjects there is a rather unfortunate tendency to forget all of the huge wealth of knowledge and wisdom we have from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-top-ten-list\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Top Ten List&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ignorance","tag-systems-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}