I encountered complexity science in 1981 when looking at ecological stability in a U. Colorado differential equations class. The prof,…
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In the US, our population seems to have arrived at two political extremes — those who reject science because they…
The work of W. Edwards Deming is brilliant, wise, and insightful leading me to quote him often. But I didn’t…
Decades of consultant programs and textbooks have trained those of us in business to assume that anything worth learning can…
Writing my book on complexity and chaos in business I’ve been covering the topic of emergence — an issue of…
The following is a “thought experiment” considering new ways to view Amazon with respect to antitrust. Thoughts and responses which…
There’s an excellent interview out this morning in the New York Times tech newsletter in which the always perceptive Shira…
It has been a wild ride of a year — including tremendous fun passing along dumpster fire and train wreck…
There’s a tendency to rate innovation by the engineering applied. But quite often this doesn’t reveal the challenge faced in…
An insidious idea floats around engineering and design circles — that a perfectly engineered product needs no marketing. Engineers and…