Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail

I think everyone should read this book, even if they have no interest in building systems. This book was written primarily to compose all the scattered axioms and laws of system designing. But it does a pretty good job of explaining the general science behind systems theory humorously and entertainingly with bad drawings from the author. I read this book just to explore something new, but oh god, the depth of thinking that went through each line of the book swayed me. I reread this book again and again, took tons of notes, and still, there’s a sticky note glued to my door with a quote from the book: “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked.”