We work in an industry that is people building systems-of-systems-of-systems, which seems to match the popular misconception of entropy.
People are desperate for viewpoints and tools to help manage that complexity.
As someone who has just enough science background to be annoyed by the misunderstanding of entropy, and enough architecture experience to be annoyed by the misunderstanding of how to effectively try to manage complexity, I get your frustration.
Error twords building simple systems that are easy to replace with defined boundaries and the org structure to build such systems is a better path.
Proving causality in complex systems is hard, if even possible, but if someone finds value in this model, the use of flawed analogies is probably useful for them.
Hopefully they realize this is a lens and they will need other lenses with models flawed in different ways to see the bigger picture.
As most complex problems only allow for approximation, I have tried to let go of what specific lenses people leverage and have moved to asking them to use multiple views.
At least in this case where invoking properties of macroscopic qualities, Gibbs free energy etc...
It is technically wrong in multiple ways, but I can see how people may find value in it
We work in an industry that is people building systems-of-systems-of-systems, which seems to match the popular misconception of entropy.
People are desperate for viewpoints and tools to help manage that complexity.
As someone who has just enough science background to be annoyed by the misunderstanding of entropy, and enough architecture experience to be annoyed by the misunderstanding of how to effectively try to manage complexity, I get your frustration.
Error twords building simple systems that are easy to replace with defined boundaries and the org structure to build such systems is a better path.
Proving causality in complex systems is hard, if even possible, but if someone finds value in this model, the use of flawed analogies is probably useful for them.
Hopefully they realize this is a lens and they will need other lenses with models flawed in different ways to see the bigger picture.
As most complex problems only allow for approximation, I have tried to let go of what specific lenses people leverage and have moved to asking them to use multiple views.
At least in this case where invoking properties of macroscopic qualities, Gibbs free energy etc...
It is technically wrong in multiple ways, but I can see how people may find value in it