# 2023-09-09

-   A [[qualitative system dynamics model]] focuses on the structure of a system and the qualitative relation between system components.
    -   What's meant by the structure of a system?
    -   What's the qualitative relation between system components?

-   [[Gordon Brander]] quotes [[Donella Meadows]] from [[Thinking in Systems]] a lot in his latest newsletter.  ([[Fragments: vertebrate technology]] - on components, modularity, and [[hierarchy]]).

-   Undoubtedly a major figure in systems thinking, but [[Robert Biel]] relates that Meadows had somewhat dubious / liberal-minded political views on some things, to which she applied systems thinking.