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Boundaries are problem-dependent, evanescent, and messy; they are also necessary for organization and clarity. Being less surprised by complex systems is mainly a matter of learning to expect, appreciate, and use the world’s complexity.
Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
They pass us the fine benefit of the compression of time even as they expose us to potential instant disaster that strikes everyone in a closed space at once.
The Seventh Sense
Joshua Cooper Ramo
This isn’t the Middle Ages, which had too many alchemists and not enough scientists. Now it’s the other way around; people who are very good at deploying and displaying conventional, deductive logic are everywhere, and they’re usually busily engaged in trying to apply some theory or model to something in order to optimise it. Much of the time, this is a good thing.
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