Introduction to the Work at Thwink.org

Our work is currently divided into these areas:

1. Slow, steady progress toward getting a serious project underway. Recently we have made some headway. See this page.

2. Experimentation - The only way to quickly and cheaply confirm an analysis or solution element hypothesis is true is experimentation. The work at Thwink.org is beginning to move from logical proof into experimental proof. You can help by running an experiment.

3. Books - These allow a much more in depth treatment of a subject than articles. The current book in progress is Process Is Everything. Completed are the small Dueling Loops book and the large Analytical Activism book.

The mission of Thwink.org is to help solve the global environmental sustainability problem using the most efficient and effective methods available.

As far as we can tell, the single most efficient and effective method is the Analytical Method. The second step of the Analytical Method says to choose an appropriate process. At the organization level we have chosen to be the world's first solution factory, which is a highly refined process for producing components to a social system problem. At the problem type level we use the System Improvement Process.

The most poweful tool we use is the System Improvment Process. The second most powerful tool is systems thinking and computer simulation models, which you can read about in The World of Simulation. Our work is mainly focused on spreading the word about the need to use these two tools to overcome the very strong change resistance exhibited by the human system to solving the sustainability problem. If you would like to read more about this, please see Change Resistance at Thwink.org.

At the lowest level of analysis our work employs the subtle concept of memes. This abstraction opens up a whole new line of attack on the problem, which you can read about in Memetics at Thwink.org.