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Intelligence Isn't Power

The Ezra Klein Show, 9 October 2026. The book comes up at 1 hr 3 min in. Said by Arvind Narayanan.

Arvind Narayanan recommends this classic by Donella Meadows as his third pick. He traces his path to it through a two-page paper called "How Complex Systems Fail" — which he assumed was about software but was actually about medical systems — that revealed an entire field studying recurring patterns across natural, social, and engineered systems.

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