Time matters in human systems. The patterns we can observe today were shaped by the initial starting conditions of the system and many years of evolutionary change. This means that while complex systems are inherently unpredictable and non-causal, they have dispositional states i.e., they are predisposed towards certain behaviors. If we understand
... See moreBoudewijn Bertsch • Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making Into the Fabric of Our World ED02
Some years ago, the writer Stewart Brand proposed that to understand a civilization, you need to look at multiple layers functioning simultaneously at different speeds.22 Fashion changes rapidly, while the business pursuits in an area alter more slowly. Infrastructure—such as roads and buildings—evolves more gradually. The rules and laws of a socie
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Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast is discontinuous, slow is continuous. Fast and small instructs slow and big by accrued innovation and by occasional revolution. Slow and big controls small and fast by constraint and constancy. Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power.