A recurring frustration in modern discourse: the inability to see the system. Not the parts, not the actors, not the symptoms, the system itself. When tech journalists obsess over Elon Musk’s latest stunt, when pundits trade blame over who radicalized whom, when legacy institutions collapse in public view and all we do is tweet emojis about it—we’re reacting to surface ripples. We’re not tracing the currents underneath. To act intelligently, you need an influence map - a network map. A way of...