New 'object oriented science' for living and working with natural whole systems
A change in natural science is emerging along with “computing” turning away from using theory & equations as a guide, toward using data pattern recognition for naturally occurring systems revealed in the data to be a guide. Preface Note: About 20 Years ago algorithms were developed for selectively extracting differentiable continuities from raw data, making a major step beyond “splines”
Short version Voted a Top Comment on the Forbes article “The Stock Market And Bernie Sanders Agree — Break Up The Banks” , a more full story follows. The reality of the matter is as embarrassing as it could be. If you trace it all back to origins… it’s our very own greed causing the whole
We talk about making connections… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . but what is it that actually “connects”? Making Connections in life mysteriously needs to start and finish, and then perhaps establish a long sustained or a short relationship. Often we don’t see quite what’s happening till
Creating a Commons takes thought leadership, and Thought Leadership takes midcourse corrections One thing “thought leaders” need to be aware of is that “leading” always requires mid-course corrections. Any start-up organization that sticks with growth as its plan and doesn’t switch to a goal for fulfillment has a default plan for destabilizing excesses in what
key organizational elements for the working relationships of complex systems ideas of complex relationships that fit the reality We care because of the new bridge it creates between human ideas and the working organization of complex working systems we make, use and need to respond to of all kinds, an emerging broad advance in understanding complex system organization design. The idea of pattern language, invented by Christopher
…and the laws that move you from maximizing power to maximizing resilience. Like many young college women Kepler awoke that morning with other things on her mind than the project she had planned for the day. She had been dreaming about how she loved her drawers of personal things, in colorful piles, neatly rolled, in little bags
The trick is that there are two ways to do that. 1) you can add the money you earn from investing money, to increase what you then reinvest, so it multiplies what you take out (to put back in to take out more), or 2) you can use the money you earn from investing to
One of the fascinating scientific subjects I research is how human understanding comes from narrative. Without getting too technical, narratives about relationships, environments and culture change issues come from people “observing the flows” of the natural processes, the flows by which those changes in our world take place. The basic starting point, then, is having
It helps to look at the long term trends to recognize the long term pattern. In a world of ever increasing inequities we clearly can’t sustain a real “rights agenda”. Even the strongest of moral commitments is no match for a world economy which in a lasting physical way, is systematically splitting apart. Sometimes local inequities can seem
There’s been a long debate and mystery caused by economic accounting for the world’s energy use not being able to trace the trade in economic energy services, the amount of China’s energy embedded in our TV’s and the amount of of France’s energy embedded in Soviet block heavy industry… etc. (See also “Pictures of WhatGDPMeasures” with 11