Jessica Kerr says, There’s something extra special about development teams: software is the most malleable material we’ve ever used in engineering, by thousands of times. There’s nothing else like it, and this changes the meaning of “team.” medium 
Systems thinking says, we are more than the components; we are also the interrelationships. Agile recognizes that these matter. But there’s more! Each member of a team learns every day. our environment learns and adapts too, because we change it. Nora Bateson gave a word to this, something deeper than any mechanical or model-able system, a learning system composed of learning parts: symmathesy (sim-MATH-uh-see).
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Kerr's post is a big bundle of analogies that all tell the same story: ideas compound within communities that help their members understand and enlarge them.