Systems Solve Everything

My obsession with systems has been my biggest success driver.

Because I started on Wall St as a spreadsheet wrangler I can’t help but recognize how everything is linked together. I spent days analyzing companies and industries, and nights pressing that domain understanding into formulas, worksheets and complex models.

My friends setting up their system in the Himalayas

Systems thinking is a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system's constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems.

This approach is beautifully adapted to wealth building where complicated markets and forces interact with each other in seen (and unseen) ways.

The core tenets of systems thinking include:

1. Interconnectedness: Systems thinking emphasizes that everything is connected. A change in one part of a system will inevitably affect other parts, and the whole system itself. This interconnectedness extends beyond the system itself to encompass it…