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Posted by Bob Eberlein <bob@vensim.com> I wanted to make a brief comment on this issue. I do think that Tom Fiddaman's post pretty clearly summed up the issue for managing levels so that they don't go negative. And while I do agree with Geoff Coyle that there is a lot of confusion about different ti...

Posted by Bob Eberlein <bob@vensim.com> Hi Martin, I think you have posed a very good question, and one that goes to the heart of the distinction that some make between systems thinking and system dynamics. Specifically, you ask: >> Is this a matter of skill (experience) and >> the unexperienced wil...

Posted by Bob Eberlein <bob@vensim.com> Hi Everyone, I just thought I would take this quiet time to encourage members of the System Dynamics Society to renew early, and for nonmembers to consider joining. We have been working at streamlining the renewal process, so this should be very eeasy. Early r...

Posted by Bob Eberlein <bob@vensim.com> This is a pretty interesting question, and has a number of answers depending on how you think about the issue. Most fundamentally the answer is no, and the reason is that feedback is absolutely pervasive in everything around us. When we observe interesting beh...