Claims that everything connects skate over trade-offs and tensions, like those between the speed of progress towards net zero and effects on social justice. Such views can also encourage a hermetically sealed network of ideas, incapable of engaging with enemies or learning from them, since if these ideas really are so pure and harmonious, they will
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As the world has become more complex, singular-solution frameworks no longer suffice. Today’s challenges require interdisciplinary approaches, diverse perspectives, and the ability to remix existing knowledge into new cocktails fit for the occasion.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
It isn’t that we never need sharp, directed, focused and even single-issue moments—we absolutely do. It’s just that we live in a system that thrives when conditions are abundant and diverse, in a universe that holds contradictions and multitudes, and we often reject that chaotic fertile reality too soon, as if we can’t tolerate the scale of our own
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BECAUSE SYSTEM DYNAMICS ILLUSTRATES THE INTERDEPENDENCIES within the current system, there is never a single right answer to any question.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
In general, there are no linear solutions for a complex problem; rather, with partners, we have to identify what blockages and bottlenecks in the system — which may be political, economic, environmental, etc — and where we can intervene to influence current behavior. Thus, a strategy for leverage points should not just involve one intervention poin... See more