resilience
Keely Adler and
resilience
There once was young warrior who had to battle fear.
"How can I defeat you?" she asked.
Fear replied:
My weapons are that I talk fast.
I get very close to your face.
Then you get completely unnerved.
And do whatever I say.
If you don't do what I tell you
I have no power.… Show more
The Counterintuitive Approach to Finding Happiness: Do the Painful Things First
James Clearjamesclear.com
Opinion | Stop Resisting Change
nytimes.com
"To thrive in our lifetimes — and not just survive — we need to transform our relationship with change, leaving behind rigidity and resistance in favor of a new nimbleness, a means of viewing more of what life throws at us as something to participate in, rather than fight. We are always shaping and being shaped by change, often at the very same time."
But you can’t optimize systems in a context that’s changing, especially if it’s changing in unpredictable ways. Removing inefficiencies when circumstances are as anticipated means that there isn’t much slack in the system to respond when the unanticipated happens. Optimization is intrinsically brittle , because it’s about closely matching the outpu
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Making systems resilient is fundamentally at odds with optimization, because optimizing a system means taking out any slack. A truly optimized, and thus efficient, system is only possible with near-perfect knowledge about the system, together with the ability to observe and implement a response. For a system to be reliable, on the other hand, there
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