Learning Resources for Systems Thinkers

Jay Wright Forrester was a pioneer in system dynamics, renowned for his groundbreaking work in computer simulation and management science, fundamentally changing how we understand and manage complex systems in various domains such as economics, ecology, and engineering.

Cal is an MIT-trained computer science professor at Georgetown University who also writes about the intersections of technology, work, and the quest to find depth in an increasingly distracted world.

Russell Lincoln Ackoff was an American organizational theorist, consultant, and Professor Emeritus at the Wharton School. Ackoff was a pioneer in the field of operations research, systems thinking and management science.

Shane Parrish is an entrepreneur and the wisdom seeker behind the popular thinking-about-thinking website Farnam Street.

Donella Hager "Dana" Meadows was an American environmental scientist, educator, and writer. She is best known as lead author of the books The Limits to Growth and Thinking In Systems: A Primer.

Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks.