Systems view of life 🌐
This is water. By David Foster Wallace.
“When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.”
—Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
The Dance
1. Get the beat.
2. Listen to the wisdom of the system.
3. Expose your mental models to the open air.
4. Stay humble. Stay a learner.
5. Honor and protect information.
6. Locate responsibility in the system.
7. Make feedback policies for feedback systems.
8. Pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable.
9. Go for the good of... See more
1. Get the beat.
2. Listen to the wisdom of the system.
3. Expose your mental models to the open air.
4. Stay humble. Stay a learner.
5. Honor and protect information.
6. Locate responsibility in the system.
7. Make feedback policies for feedback systems.
8. Pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable.
9. Go for the good of... See more
Donella Meadows • Dancing With Systems
[Nick_Sousanis]_Unflattening(z-lib.org)
Explores the interplay of visual and verbal cognition, challenging traditional perceptions of knowledge, and advocating for multidimensional understanding through innovative approaches in art and thought.
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X-Curve. Transition model