Author:: David Snowden Video Link:: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkJDyPh9phc&t=0s

  • 2 systems: ordered systems and chaotic systems
    • fear of chaos is being used to destroy creativity
    • order is combined with excessive outcome-based targets when pursuing explicit targets, destroys intrinsic motivation
  • there is a third type of system: complex adaptive system
    • everything connected with everything else but not all connections can be known (dark matter, internet, humanity)
  • boundaries + attractors
    • manage attractors by giving more resources to the ones that are successful
    • don’t treat ecosystem as engineering problem, treat as ecosystem problem
  • people’s own voice needs to be subject to their own interpretation (not experts or AI or abstracted policy reports)
    • We’ve never lived in a fact-based society
  • using the community as ethnographers to their lives
    • scale empowering people to tell their own story
    • ability to abstract allows for scientific invention
  • adjacent possible: a cluster of narratives near to where i am but going in right direction vector measure, dont measure outcome, measure vector
    • what can i do to create more stories like these and fewer stories like that
    • start doing small things in present than promising large things in future