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Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Donella Meadows · 2008
Mentioned 9 times across 5 podcasts · 2020–2026
Mention timeline9 mentions
20202026
Where it's mentioned
2026
What if A.I. Is Just a ‘Normal Technology’?
The Ezra Klein Show · Oct 2026
“that led me to the book Systems Thinking. By Donella Meadows from many many years ago”
Netflix CPTO on AI and the future of product and tech roles | Elizabeth Stone
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jul 2026
“I think of this book that uh everyone always references with the slinky on the front. Speaking in systems. Yeah”
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
The Knowledge Project · Jun 2026
“There's a there's a book called Thinking and Systems that I read”
2025
10 contrarian leadership truths every leader needs to hear | Matt MacInnis (Rippling)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Dec 2025
“Thinking and systems. Donna Meadows. I always mispronounce her name, Donella Meadows. She died part way through writing this manuscript. Her fellow professors picked it up and finished it for her”
Bill Gurley - The Gift and The Curse of Staying Private
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jun 2025
“There's a book out there on how to think in systems that's pretty cool”
2024
The engineering mindset | Will Larson (Carta, Stripe, Uber, Calm, Digg)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jan 2024
“Thinking and Systems by Donatella Meadows”
2023
LinkedIn’s product evolution and the art of building complex systems | Hari Srinivasan (LinkedIn)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jul 2023
“The first one is called Thinking and Systems. It's the one I give kind of the team every now and then”
2022
Nickey Skarstad (Airbnb, Etsy, Shopify, Duolingo) on translating vision into goals, operationalizing product quality, second-order decisions, brainstorming, influence, and much more
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jul 2022
“A great book to read if you are a product person is Thinking and Systems by Danella Meadows”
2020
Rapid Response: A virtual-first workplace, w/Dropbox's Drew Houston
Masters of Scale · Nov 2020
“There's a book I'm reading right now called Thinking and Systems about system design”