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Leanpub

Succeed over difficult problems by embracing Complexity-Thinking by Luca Minudel leanpub.com/solvedifficultprob #books #ebooks #complexity

A micro-guide to Complexity-thinking for anyone faced with complex problems and struggling to find the crux of the matter. It also contains a call to action.

For newcomers to Complexity-thinking and those who are already familiar with the topic. This is the kind of book you'll want to share with your colleagues, manager, and CEO.

Find it on Leanpub!

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Leanpub

Living Complexity by Luca Minudel leanpub.com/livingcomplexity #books #ebooks #complexity

This book describes 15 practical applications of Human Complexity in the context of software and digital products development. And suggests a new strategy for introducing Complexity thinking to your team and your organisation. The book is for leaders, managers, facilitators, change agents (Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches), and team members.

Find it on Leanpub!

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Mikko Tuomi

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has proposed nothing less than a new law of #nature, according to which the #complexity of entities in the #universe increases over time with an inexorability comparable to the second law of #thermodynamics — the law that dictates an inevitable rise in entropy, a measure of disorder.

If they’re right, complex and intelligent #life should be widespread.

#astrobiology #physics
quantamagazine.org/why-everyth

Quanta Magazine · Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex | Quanta MagazineA new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.
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Xamanismo Coletivo

Hans Busstra interviews theoretical physicist and #complexity scientist #JamesGlattfelder on his new book: “The #SapientCosmos: What a modern-day synthesis of science and philosophy teaches us about the emergence of information, consciousness, and meaning”, published by #EssentiaFoundation.

Can a #newscience bridge the gap between the noumena and the phenomena, the 1st person and the 3rd person perspective? A bit more provocatively: what is the relationship between #physics, #psychedelic experiences and #shamanism? #Glattfelder makes a plea for syncretic idealism: a worldview that synthesises ancient idealist texts and mystical experiences with physics, complexity science and analytic idealism.

#SyncreticIdealism could lead to a #ScientificSpirituality, a form of #empiricalmysticism that acknowledges a purposeful universe, wanting to know itself through ever increasing complexity."

youtube.com/watch?v=RgpABHt2B7

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Futurist Jim Carroll

"Bumper sticker explanations of complicated issues are usually wildly inaccurate!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

There are a lot of people with instant insight on everything and yet who are experts at nothing.

Isn't that the way it goes?

If you spend any time talking with anyone today, it would seem that they are suddenly experts on tariffs and their impact on regional, national, and local economies. Everyone is offering up concise statements of what it means, where it will go, and what will happen. I prefer to listen to global trade experts and economists - folks who are trained in this stuff. In the same way, I'd rather listen to a PhD in vaccine medicine than some quack who gets his information off an obscure conspiracy theorist's Website.

That's why ideas like "trickle-down economics will work" statements are always such a false promise. The notion that tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations automatically benefit everyone has been repeatedly challenged by economic research showing limited "trickle-down" effects and increasing wealth inequality. And yet the bumper sticker wisdom lives on.

Why does this happen?

"Bumper sticker" phrases - catchy one-liners about complex issues - sacrifice accuracy for memorability. They fail to address the multiple perspectives, historical context, systemic factors, competing values, and technical details that complex problems involve. They often aren't based on much more than opinions.

The fact is, oversimplifying leads to:

- Overlooking cause-effect complexities

- Creating false either/or scenarios

- Substituting emotion for analysis

- Reinforcing existing beliefs

Good leaders know when simplicity works and when issues demand a deeper explanation. They engage with complexity and guide others through it thoughtfully. They also know that while bumper-sticker wisdom can be popular, it causes more problems than good.

Ironically, my statement about bumper stickers is itself a bumper sticker - though one that points out its limitations!

Perhaps we need simple reminders to look beyond simplicity.
**#Complexity** **#Nuance** **#Understanding** **#Context** **#Depth** **#Oversimplification** **#Analysis** **#Thinking** **#Perspective** **#Knowledge**

Futurist Jim Carroll is willing to admit that perhaps many of his Daily Inspiration posts contain bumper-sticker wisdom. He lives and owns the contradiction.

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2025/04/decodin

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jan
“Darwin wrote extensively on animal behaviors, local adaptations, and reciprocal relationships that speak to co-creation, not a fixed environment imposing design by negation. Modern complexity theorists have taken these insights further, highlighting how variation and selection act alongside emergent order, morphological constraints, and even convergent evolutionary trends.”
—Matthew Segall, Hans Jonas' "The Phenomenon of Life”
#darwin #complexity #complexitytheory #emergentorder #morphologicalconstraints
#morphologicalconstraints
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Programming Quotes

Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.

— Eric Raymond

#complexity#languages
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seadrift

Can Consonance Be Explained with Mathematical Proportions? The Simplicity and Complexity of Harmonic Relations in Music
brill.com/display/book/9789004

"Numerous speculative theories have been proposed, combining musical harmony with mathematical proportions. The common theme of these theories is the simplicity of ratios corresponding to the perception of musical intervals. In this article, selected definitions of proportion simplicity will be confronted with music practice."

#music#complexity
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Cassia 🇨🇦🇩🇰

#threegoodthings #3goodthings
1) watched a really excellent video recording of a Clarendon lecture by Tima Bansal .. can’t wait to see the second! youtube.com/live/Tqs6oI9GEZ4?s
#systemsthinking #complexity
2) had a nice teams chat with another friend-colleague with whom I had not spoken in several months
3) my family and friends, and my 🐕 🥰

YouTubeThe Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies by Tima Bansal - Lecture 1By Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
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