The document discusses how stories are like reactive systems by comparing heroes to scalability, plots to resilience, and genres to elasticity. For each comparison, it provides questions that systems and heroes should consider. Heroes achieve new understanding and scalability by escaping their skin, stoicism, and the confines of the story. Plots involve failure through the lures of the invisible, inclination, and independence, but heroes never give up. Genres represent categories of antagonists like human vs. human, nature, and self. The questions posed help evaluate systems' ability to endure, deserve to live, change, coordinate fun, become anti-fragile, and understand what they accumulate.