Hey I found a place to comment on JC's substack! It is a glitch in the matrix! :)
Well, I am reading a good book right now that touches on Spontaneous Order, so I shall make use of this opportunity to simultaneously recommend that all the people following this newsletter both check out JC's great episode here and recommend that you also read a book called "Sand Talk" by Tyson Yunkaporta, which I shall quote below:
“Pre-industrial cultures have worked within self-organising systems for thousands of years to predict weather patterns, seasonal activity and the dynamics of social groups, then manage responses to these complexities in non-intrusive ways that maintain systemic balance… Systems are heterarchical — composed of equal parts interacting together. Imposing a hierarchical model of top-down control can only destroy them. Healthy interventions can only be made by free agents within a complex system — agents referred to in chaos theory as “strange attractors”. Could you be a strange attractor within your institution? It is a risky endeavour in a culture that attaches negative meanings to words like chaos and anarchy, equating them with disorder and ruin. But chaos in reality has a structure that produces innovation, and anarchy simply means ‘no boss’. Could it be possible to have a structure with no bosses?”
Hey I found a place to comment on JC's substack! It is a glitch in the matrix! :)
Well, I am reading a good book right now that touches on Spontaneous Order, so I shall make use of this opportunity to simultaneously recommend that all the people following this newsletter both check out JC's great episode here and recommend that you also read a book called "Sand Talk" by Tyson Yunkaporta, which I shall quote below:
“Pre-industrial cultures have worked within self-organising systems for thousands of years to predict weather patterns, seasonal activity and the dynamics of social groups, then manage responses to these complexities in non-intrusive ways that maintain systemic balance… Systems are heterarchical — composed of equal parts interacting together. Imposing a hierarchical model of top-down control can only destroy them. Healthy interventions can only be made by free agents within a complex system — agents referred to in chaos theory as “strange attractors”. Could you be a strange attractor within your institution? It is a risky endeavour in a culture that attaches negative meanings to words like chaos and anarchy, equating them with disorder and ruin. But chaos in reality has a structure that produces innovation, and anarchy simply means ‘no boss’. Could it be possible to have a structure with no bosses?”