Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

– Alan Perlis

Notes

• from https://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/02/10/each-necessary-but-only-jointly-sufficient/
  • Failures in complex-systems require multiple contributing causes, each necessary but only jointly sufficient. Finding the root cause of a failure is like finding a root cause of a success.
• Complexity is a factor of information scale (how much information), information diversity (how many elements), and information connectedness (how many cross-relationships between elements).

Lookup

• simplexity
• complex-systems
• Beyond Cynefin - Navigating Deeper into Complexity with EstuarineMapping - Dave Snowden

  • Making everything explicit isn’t only dangerous in that it can be gamed, it is dangerous in that it makes you play the game whether you want to or not. It causes ‘safety theater’ and compliance culture. Woe be you if you deviate because you adapted to alternate circumstances.

  • Ideation Diversity! 🤩🤓

  • safety theater, excessive compliance