OK, we have a problem. Yet, do we really know what the problem is? More often than not we look at the symptoms, consider them the problem and attempt to fix them. This actually dooms us to failure because they're only symptoms.

What do activities of these images have in common?

Escape behavior often results in more stress than one escapes from.

This is the sample model used as a demo for enfolding and unfolding a model. This is what we had to do before the Storytelling feature was developed. Save this one for posterity!

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An implementation of the classic Game of Life using agent based modeling.

Rules:

• A live cell with less than two alive neighbors dies.
• A live cell with more than three alive neighbors dies.
• A dead cell with three neighbors becomes alive.

While these pictures represent very different things there is a common essence.

Purpose: Employ the Mono Lake model adapted from "Modeling the Environment" by Andrew Ford as a basis for developing a set of guidelines to support asynchronous multi-user model development.

Mono Lake is an ancient inland sea on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada. From a policy point of view Mono Lake is the story of how a handful of people began a campaign to save a dying lake.

• 10.06.04 v1.0 created and documented by Bellinger. Initial problem with the reference mode has been fixed.

Understanding relationships is the foundation of effective problem solving. Though relations exists on multiple levels.

While these pictures represent very different things there is a common essence.

Just some thoughts for Runy.

Initial causal loop diagram for the influences leading to the acceptance of Systems Thinking.

Underachievement is one of the four generic archetypes developed by Eric Wolstenholme and maps to the Limits to Growth, Tragedy of the Commons, Attractiveness Principle, Growth and Underinvestment and Growth and Underinvestment with a Drifting Standard Systems Archetypes.

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The limits to growth structure is based on the basic growth structure. And, as should be obvious, nothing grows forever as growth requires resources. Those required resources become a limits to growth. See also Archetypes.

Aapted from The Dynamics of Identity Theft: A Comparison of Symptomatic and Systemic Solutions by Mary Lou G. Bourne and Michael L. Deaton

A model to use to demonstrate scenarios using button scripts.

While these pictures represent very different things there is a common essence.

Investigations into the relationships responsible for the success and failure of nations. This investigation was prompted after reading numerous references on the subject and perceiving that *Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty* by Acemoglu and Robinson seem to make a great deal of sense.

Part 1 demonstrates Picture primitives and Links to create representations of interactions. These are made visually attractive because the Picture primitives are overlay'd with images.

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Macros are very useful for defining functions that need to be repeatedly at various places in the model.

All the following have a common characteristic.

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This is a template which one might use as a basis for creating Insight Maker Relationship Models. Links have a default style of the blue ones in the diagram. The easiest way to get the red dashed links is to CTRL+d to duplicate them and then connect where appropriate.