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Ranting about “broken” systems full of seemingly very dumb people is a sign you’re in a complex system and not dealing well with it because you’re bringing non-complex-systems thinking to your experience. Ranting may help force system to do what you want but it will cost you.
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I’m not telling people to apply complexity thinking. I’m arguing that ranting and hammering at “broken” systems has declining chances of fixing them as you increase complexity
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50% of ranting is an attempt to bully systems into working and sometimes it works. By the oldest mechanism humanity has known: making your problem someone else’s problem by making yourself unpleasant to deal with. Works with customer service interfaces manned by humans .
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Again, up to a point. The main cost, which may exceed any benefits, is that you cause stress to unrelated people who aren’t involved, can’t help, might make things worse, and might matter to you in other ways (eg family, friends). Ranting is not a focused energy action.
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