🌀🗞 The FLUX Review, Ep. 160
MAELSTROM ESC/APE STRATEGIES
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Perhaps the greatest “phase transition” in our thinking that such an approach could engender is the maturation in our willingness to live with relatively high levels of uncertainty in the domains of complex phenomena—and thus give up on ideas like complete “cures,” the elimination of “risk,” the design of perfect “stability,” and achieving total “s
... See moreJessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
treat more decisions and actions as experiments to be run, tracked, and tested—not as final decisions that are to be set in stone.
M. Andrew McConnell • Get Out of My Head: Creating Modern Clarity With Stoic Wisdom
My observation is that leadership teams get caught in a cycle of addressing long-term risk with rigid, short-term solutions, and in the process they invite entropy. Teams that rely on traditional linear timelines get caught in a cycle of tactical responses to what feels like constant change being foisted upon them from outside forces. Over time, th... See more
Amy Webb • How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
By staying nimble and making adjustments when required, you can keep your experiment on track through changing tides. Be iterative, not dogmatic: approach this process with the humility of a scientist, not the rigidity of an officer following orders.