Thomas Brett
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Resonant Thoughts: John Salvatier’s “Reality has a surprising amount of detail” (2017)
“The direction for improvement is clear: seek detail you would not normally notice about the world. When you go for a walk, notice the unexpected detail in a flower or what the seams in the road imply about how the road was built. When you talk to someone who is smart but just seems so wrong,… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Zeynep Tufekci on Asystemic Thinking And Complex Systems
“We failed to understand that complex systems defy simplistic reductionism…Tipping points, phase transitions (water boiling or freezing), and cascades and avalanches (when a few small changes end up triggering massive shifts) are all examples of nonlinear dynamics in which the event doesn’t follow simple addition in its impacts.” – Zeynep Tufekci Continue reading
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