Systems thinking and design systems go hand in hand… but there’s a lot more to the story. A design system is bigger than a component library. But the useful part is that nobody has to debate that button again. The same principle applies to far more than UI. One clear ICP means one sales deck, one go-to-market plan, and one set of places to show up. One reliable customer feedback loop means the team isn't reinventing how it learns all the time. These are all small decisions, and small decisions get discounted because they look small in isolation. But when the decision becomes a standard, it compounds through every person and every workflow that follows. That's what I mean by "one decision that makes a thousand." The best systems remove work people never needed to be doing in the first place.