A few nights ago, my friend and I were talking about ideas, specifically how people come up with good ones. Not the kind of ideas that get you a few likes on X, but the sort that can bend reality a little. The kind that could turn into startups, useful products, papers, new fields. The kind that last.What I realized is that most people don’t really think in systems. And that might be the core problem.Instead, people think in anecdotes, or goals, or isolated products. “Let’s build a to-do list ap...