Resilience versus efficiency
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Resilience versus efficiency
The combination of fast and slow components makes the system resilient, along with the way the differently paced parts affect each other. 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 occasional revolution. Slow and big controls s
... See moreStewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
Cities are not about efficiency, and never have been. The most meaningful urban experiences are generally the most inefficient. But this lack of efficiency is also why they are naturally resilient, if their design patterns follow the purposeful redundancy described above.
Medium • 11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism
Placing a system in a straitjacket of constancy can cause fragility to evolve. —C. S. Holling,2 ecologist
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller
The resilience of more decentralized, interdependent life forms comes from their ability to adapt and collaborate, while maintaining core practices essential to their survival.
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
Efficiency is great in an unchanging environment, but to expect an environment to remain static is unrealistic. Environments change all the time. When workplaces value efficiency in a changing environment, they become fragile. Inefficiency, like a genetic mutation, can allow for serendipitous discovery. Sure, it may produce the same mistakes as bef... See more