Sublime

Complex Systems, as we’ve already discussed, are made up of many Interdependent Flows, Stocks, processes, and parts. As a whole, the system may be too complex to take in all at once—if there are more than seven or eight variables or dependencies, the Cognitive Scope Limitation kicks in and confusion takes over. If that’s true, how can anyone analyz

1. Find people who understand things better than you and read what they have to say. Read with the intention of answering your questions. If you can’t find the answers, email them.


2. Perform experiments. By this I don’t mean do random thing

Deconstruction is taking individual elements, observing what they are and what they do, and understanding how their smaller function fits into the bigger, overall process. Doing so makes self-training and practice far less formidable, as you can concentrate on developing the subskills one by one.

When you don’t understand something, deconstruct. Deconstruction creates knowledge. You work backward from the end to understand how something was done.

When you want to create something original, though, deconstruct and recombine. Arranging common things in a new way creates value.