"The metacrisis" implies the need for a single "metasolution" that fixes everything. That's impossible; there are many, diverse practical problems that need diverse practical ameliorations. https://t.co/8kYYLM3lkO
"The metacrisis" implies the need for a single "metasolution" that fixes everything. That's impossible; there are many, diverse practical problems that need diverse practical ameliorations. https://t.co/8kYYLM3lkO
solutions, only trade-offs.
Oliver Burkeman • Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
But the problem with problem-solving is the idea that a solution is an endpoint. There are no endpoints in complex systems, only tendrils that diffuse and reorganize situations…
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns
When I look around it seems to me most of the biggest problems actually have a plethora of solutions already lined up, and the necessary technology chugging along at approximately the rate we choose to prioritize it. What’s lacking is the political will. It ultimately serves the status quo to convince us that we suffer not from one big problem with
... See moreSamuel W. Franklin • The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
In other words, many problems in society come from the interventions of people who sell complicated solutions because that’s what their position and training invite them to do. There is absolutely no gain for someone in such a position to propose something simple: you are rewarded for perception, not results. Meanwhile, they pay no price for the si
... See moreNassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
The biggest and most-discussed problems of our era — the current pandemic, climate change, political and ideological polarization, racial and income inequality, global supply chains, among others — can only be understood and engaged with as systems of interrelated phenomena and actions.
Medium • The Ecosystem Hypothesis
the world is changing fundamentally due to several major factors: the shift in geological time from Holocene to Anthropocene, the impact of the internet and smart phones on the infosphere and lifeworld, capitalism running out of viable frontiers and being a complex adaptive system that has lost its ability to adapt, widespread governance failures, ... See more