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Category Archives: Systems
Swarm Intelligence and God: How we are already are a part of something greater than ourselves.
Have you ever observed an ant colony, and noticed that there appears to be a greater intelligence guiding the ants’ collective behaviour? Each individual ant is relatively clueless about what it’s doing, but it serves a role in something greater … Continue reading
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The Path Of A Double Pendulum
Look at that. Isn’t that beautiful? Doesn’t it look chaotic, and yet strangely elegant? This is the path of a double pendulum. Small changes, such as changing the angle between the two pendulums when released, would generate a gratuitous amount … Continue reading
explaining my love for self-correcting mechanisms, philosophy and systems
Stereotypical geniuses have highly developed self-correcting mechanisms. They learn from their mistakes and avoid repeating them. This allows them to build on their existing knowledge and develop what we recognize as expertise. Stereotypical idiots have poorly developed self-correcting mechanisms. They … Continue reading
thoughts on illness, immune systems and weekend warriors
I think I fall sick more often than my peers. I’m not completely sure of this, I don’t have enough data to be conclusive. Either way, I fall sick more often than I’d like.$Being slightly under the weather is occasionally … Continue reading
Cowboys and Pit Crews- Why the medical industry needs more systemic thinking and execution
Atul Gawande delivered this year’s commencement address at Harvard Medical School. All emphasis is mine. In his book “The Youngest Science,” the great physician-writer Lewis Thomas described his internship at Boston City Hospital in pre-penicillin 1937. Hospital work, he … Continue reading
The wisdom of the universe, and the stories and maps we create to try to comprehend it.
There’s a profound wisdom to be found in nature. To call it wisdom might be misleading because we only get to see what works and are blissfully ignorant of what didn’t make it, so we might be mislead into thinking … Continue reading
Personal Systems 2.1- down the rabbit hole we go…
Continuing from where we left off, here and here! Brainstorming (prototype 1.0): Putting things together (2.0) Refining them (2.1)- click to expand! I spent a little more time playing around with this, putting in all the things that I’m interested … Continue reading
Personal Systems 2.0
(Click to expand!) The colours don’t mean anything. (Yet). Expanding on what I did in pen and paper. It’s impossible when to say it’ll be complete, but it will get more refined, some things will be cut, removed, re-aligned/oriented, … Continue reading
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your personal system, what it looks like, and how it makes life awesome
I talk about systems and complexity and the Pareto principle and all that stuff a lot and sometimes it gets a little bit hard to see what exactly I’m talking about, so I figured that I ought to try and … Continue reading
Limitations of Linearity and the Complexity of Networks and Self-Organizing Systems
I have a big problem with making lists. Lists are not actually very informative. They are an ineffectual way of presenting information, because they are not very intuitive or visual. Lists are linear, unlike most of reality, which assembles itself … Continue reading
