<span class="image image-boxed float-right">![[book-cover-systemantics.jpg|240]]</span> *"Systemantics - How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail"* is a satirical yet insightful overview and analysis of complex systems and their many common tropes and failings. The work compresses many acute observations into a number of aphorisms, including [[Everything is a system]]: ![[Everything is a system]] and the eponymous [[Gall's Law]]: ![[Gall's Law]] *Book cover image retrieved from [abebooks.com](https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31398459425) at 2024-02-20*