CLD Craft (12 Hygiene Rules + Fuzzy Variable Elevation + R/B Loop Classification)

R — Reading

"The 12 rules of CLD drawing are not optimization — they are hygiene; the wastepaper basket is the most-used tool."

— Dennis Sherwood, Chapter 7

"You can if you want to [trace causality forever], but as soon as you start doing this you might never stop. Everything is, quite literally, linked to everything else."

— Dennis Sherwood, Chapter 7

"Causal loop diagrams aren't accounting spreadsheets … although we rarely talk about such things, they are there, they do drive behavior, and they are important."

— Dennis Sherwood, Chapter 4 (ce12)

"If you are so generous as to be over the top, wouldn't the staff start taking advantage and slack off?"

— Dennis Sherwood, Chapter 4 (ce29 — the sign-flip insight)