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In Orange, the world presents a new face. We see it no longer as a fixed universe governed by immutable rules, but as a complex clockwork, whose inner workings and natural laws can be investigated and understood.

Frédéric Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness

Like honeybee scouts, messaging apps decrease the friction of centralized nodes in the 1:1 communication between individual nodes and allow for emergent behaviors.

Arjun Sethi • The Hive is the New Network

phase transitions, where small incremental changes in causes lead to large-scale effects.

Michael J. Mauboussin • Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition

the steady state of out-of-equilibrium systems minimizes the production of entropy.6

Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies

Complexity Explained

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Pedro Domingos • The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

As the size of your network grows, your small-group pattern, where everyone connected to everyone, would first become impractical, then unbuildable. Let the small groups connect tightly, and then you connect the groups. But you can't really connect groups - you connect people within groups. Instead of one loose group of 25, you have 5 tight groups ... See more

Clay Shirky • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

foundations were laid in Victorian times. Now it is changing radically. Standard economics is suddenly being challenged by a number of new approaches: behavioral economics, neuroeconomics, new institutional economics. One of the new approaches came to life at the Santa Fe Institute: complexity economics.

Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)

While I don’t claim to offer an overarching view of science, I stress the connections of the approaches as well as of the solutions. Temperature is the thread.