Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning

Speed is a hallmark trait of the 21st. century; from fast food to fast fashion, our digital and global moment demands a pace previously unimaginable. But with speed comes compromise at the cost of our environment, health, and culture. An antidote to our fast-paced, technologically driven lives resides in carving out space for deliberateness; for sl... See more

When Charles Babbage, early in the Nineteenth Century, attempted to build the world’s first large calculating machine, he made the parts of wood and promptly discovered the importance of Internal Friction. Briefly, his machine wouldn’t go—and he couldn’t Push It hard enough to Make It Go without breaking it (see Pushing On The System, Chapter 11).

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