Doug Garnett's Blog

Election Instability Amid Complexity

It has been discouraging this past week to realize that shouting heads in the Democratic Party and the punditry class…

In my writing for business I avoid the word “philosophy” whenever possible. Of course, some philosophers reveal brilliant insights in…

In my writing for business I avoid the word “philosophy” whenever possible. Of course, some philosophers reveal brilliant insights in…

Apologies to John Wanamaker for stealing this quote and applying it to bureaucracy rather than advertising. Yet there’s no better…

I am no fan of the exaggerated claims we hear arriving from the shiny bauble hype machine for ChatGPT or…

The word “bias” is richly imbued with implications of censure. It is not, after all, a good thing to be…

For that past 3 years I’ve been writing a book on complexity and business using a bit of an archaic…

In the past year I discovered the essays of Isaiah Berlin. Berlin was a historian of ideas and the Enlightenment…

While there’s some exceptional writing about complexity in business, there’s not enough. Too many business writers and consultants work hard…

I encountered complexity science in 1981 when looking at ecological stability in a U. Colorado differential equations class. The prof,…