Complex Systems
Complex systems are systems where the collective behavior of their parts entails emergence of properties that can hardly, if not at all, be inferred from properties of the parts.
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Complex Systems
complex things come from the most elegant primitives
Colossus • A Q&A with Eugene Wei: The Timeline is Evolving
Counterintuitive. That’s Forrester’s word to describe complex systems. Leverage points are not intuitive. Or if they are, we intuitively use them backward, systematically worsening whatever problems we are trying to solve
donellameadows.org • Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
Fermat's Library | Life's Irreducible Structure annotated/explained version.
fermatslibrary.com
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The Theory of Constraints is a good example of how we are surrounded by complicated systems where the optimal strategy, by definition, is always a simple one: in this case, attack the biggest constraint.