Systems Thinking Lessons of Our Age: Networks

The most visible systems lesson from virus spreads is related to networks if we know how to see them.

In the early 1980s Faberge Organics Shampoo (the stuff Steve, the character in the Netflix show Stranger Things uses to get his hair so ‘perfect’) ran advertisements that used network theory to serve as a prop for how things — like recommendations for hair care products — spread…