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Great thread.

[pouring it out in communicating vessels] there, systems!

i mean you can see the potential for change but you can also see the vast darkness and that you may not see substantive change within your lifetime being able to comprehend even slightly a complexity that you barely have the ability to affect

so much about systems change has to align for things to change on anything other than a decades+ timescale but for crisis events (and even in crisis events it's even odds on two steps forward, three steps back), so much is about luck and yet

I think part of the issue is that you can be a systems thinker-singular and then it feels like You Are The One Who Must Change It because You Can See but then again the whole point of the fellowship was that it was a Team Effort and you know exactly which one's the Boromir you're working with

You’re speaking my soul language, and I think it’s why I was gifted with the inability to focus too hard on despair

you can see the levers of change but you can never use them alone

I'd call out two sub-types! 1. The people who get brought into seemingly easy roles that aren't just yak-shaving expeditions but require entire yak ranches. Winner's curse. 2. The people who get brought in to blame, without (much) authority, then try to fix something, then get blamed. Scapegoats.