I’ve already shared an extract from this episode about systems thinking here, but the whole interview is fascinating and everyone I’ve recommended it to has… Read More »Podcast recommendation: Marc Andreesen on The Moment with Brian Koppelman
At the eleventh hour – just in time – in the dying, last-gasp seconds… Find a way to ship.
No doubt your organisation has lots of moving parts, many of which are specific to what you do. But it’s probably also made up of… Read More »Building blocks and open source organisations
Okay, so machines are simple, largely linear, and predictable, and systems are complex, adaptive and ‘dispositional’… but look a bit closer and the distinction gets… Read More »Machine. Ecosystem. (6) – Kevin Kelly on the techium
The water breaks through because upstream – far enough up that there isn’t any stream – there’s a drip, drip, drip. Enough drips to puddle,… Read More »No breakthroughs
A ‘system’ is an interconnected set of elements coherently organized in a way that achieves something. It is more than the sum of its parts:… Read More »Machine. Ecosystem. (5) – Duncan Green on systems thinking and development
Think about it [systems thinking] through the lens of a new tech product, which is kind of the centre of what we do [at Andreesen… Read More »Machine. Ecosystem. (4) – Marc Andreessen on Systems Thinking
I’m a sucker for filling up spare moments with reading, listening, messaging. I like being in touch with people, and I love learning, so empty… Read More »Mrs D: empty moments
Peter Morville on the unpredictability of complex systems:
In 1997 Watson’s precursor, IBM’s Deep Blue, beat the reigning chess grand master Garry Kasperov in a famous man-versus machine match. After machines repeated their… Read More »AI and us: Kevin Kelly on ‘centaurs’