Ecosystems
Consider this for a moment: The ecosystem is the fundamental unit, the atomic building block of everything in our world. Each of us is an ecosystem, we are made up of ecosystems, and we are participants in ecosystems.
Medium • The Ecosystem Hypothesis
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An ecosystem is the aggregate of many species’ habits of transformation, their ways of moving energy from its origin in the sun across space and condensing it over time. To be alive is to take a place in a chain of conversions.
Bathsheba Demuth • Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
Keely Adler added
In biology, an ecosystem encompasses a community of interacting species and their nonliving environment. All components play a part in determining the characteristics, from the type of soil to the amount of sun or water available. Some animals cooperate, others compete, and changes in any component can affect both the fitness of individual species
... See moreShane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
In biology, an ecosystem encompasses a community of interacting species and their nonliving environment. All components play a part in determining the characteristics, from the type of soil to the amount of sun or water available. Some animals cooperate, others compete, and changes in any component can affect both the fitness of individual species
... See moreShane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
Essential because this is literally what we are as humans — ecosystems are our essence. Animating because the ecosystems that comprise us and contain us are literally what gives us life. Actionable because this is a recontextualization of all of our action inside a new paradigm — and because context / framing is decisive.
Medium • Humanity, the Ecosystem
Keely Adler added
Content ecosystem maps are snapshots of your digital strategy and what the heck is going on with content in your organization: where content is coming from, high-level processes, internal and external audiences, business objectives, technology—and how it all interacts.
Scott Kubie • Visualize Your Digital Strategy with a Content Ecosystem Map
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Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
Culture: An Owner's Manualculture.ghost.io