What is complexity?
“People think that complex is an advanced state of complicated … It’s not. A car key is simple. A car is complicated. A car in traffic is complex.” It’s the simplest explanation of complexity I’ve ever read
Noah Brier • The Complexity Edition
Complexity gives a comforting impression of control, while simplicity is hard to distinguish from cluelessness.
Morgan Housel • Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life
The answer lies in the same reason that sophisticated tools of forecasting and business analysis, as well as elegant strategic plans, usually fail to produce dramatic breakthroughs in managing a business. They are all designed to handle the sort of complexity in which there are many variables: detail complexity. But there is a second type of comple
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