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One of the defining characteristics of a complex system is that it defies any single person’s ability to see the system as a whole and understand how all the pieces fit together. Complex systems typically have a high degree of interconnectedness of tightly coupled components and system-level behavior that cannot be explained merely in terms of the behavior of the system components.
The DevOps Handbook
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, and Nicole Forsgren
He becomes the trance dancer. All the men are potentially tranced.
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness, and man is equipped to respond in stereotyped ways to frequently occurring situations and stimuli like hunger, danger, and sex. But in a developed and complex civilization individuals are more differentiated and unique than in a primitive society, and many situations contain novel circumstances requiring modifications of instinctive response; custom recedes, reasoning spreads; the results are less predictable. There is no certainty that the future will repeat the past. Every year is an adventure.