A diagram that asks if “Terror” is an open system by a retired system designer.

It’s a little Yoda-esque* and high-level for my liking and as such not a successful for me as the previous diagram they published.

A nice little comment from the author, though, at the end of the piece; more widely applicable to our field, perhaps:

“As system designers, we are always designing systems for others to use. There is nothing worse than being on the end of the plank, with everyone telling you it’s great and it’s OK to jump. In other words, dissent produces a better system. Any comments or questions, please?”

* by Yoda-esque, I’m refering to the diminutive jedi-master’s riff on cycles of violence: “anger leads to fear, fear leads to hate, hate leads to suf-fer-ring…“