i feel like the opportune window is going through mitosis
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synthetic biologist • */* • pattern enjoyer • bourgeois boheme
![“Many Functions Are Intrinsically Unsuited To The Systems Approach.
Anyone who has tried to manipulate an umbrella in a high wind has an intuitive feel for what is involved here. Technically, it has something to do with rapid and irregular fluctuations in the parameters.[*] The great secret of Systems Design is to be able to sense what things can naturally be done easily and elegantly by means of a system and what things are hard-and to stay away from the hard things.
Also, if you really must build a system, by all means remember the Systems Law of Gravity, otherwise known as the Vector Theory of Systems:
Systems Run Best When Designed To Run Downhill.
In human terms, this means working with human tendencies rather than against them. For example, a state-run lottery flourishes even in times of economic depression because its function is aligned with the basic human instinct to gamble a small stake in hopes of a large reward. The public school system, on the other hand, although founded with the highest and most altruistic goals in mind, remains in a state of chronic failure because it violates the human principle of spontaneity. It goes[…]”
Excerpt From
Systemantics: How Systems Work (and Especially How They Fail)
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