Sublime

“leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything.

Self-organization produces heterogeneity and unpredictability.

Donella Meadows, one of the authors of Limits to Growth.

The most marvelous characteristic of some complex systems is their ability to learn, diversify, complexify, evolve.

Once we see the relationship between structure and behavior, we can begin to understand how systems work,

Insight comes not only from recognizing which factor is limiting, but from seeing that growth itself depletes or enhances limits and therefore changes what is limiting.

If company managers, city governments, the human population do not choose and enforce their own limits to keep growth within the capacity of the supporting environment, then the environment will choose and enforce limits.