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Chapter 2

The River

The value of a river is not in its banks.

The questionIf nothing moves, what exactly is producing your result?

The result of any system is produced by the flow that crosses its elements, not only by the elements individually.

The scene this idea comes from is Chapter 2 of the book, available now.

You do not have to wait for it. A different chapter, The Mathematics of Flow, is already finished and ready to read: it is the one where the whole logic of the book becomes visible, and it stands on its own.

I will ask you one question back: which sentence in it describes something you are living through right now?