Hans Busstra interviews theoretical physicist and #complexity scientist #JamesGlattfelder on his new book: “The #SapientCosmos: What a modern-day synthesis of science and philosophy teaches us about the emergence of information, consciousness, and meaning”, published by #EssentiaFoundation.

Can a #newscience bridge the gap between the noumena and the phenomena, the 1st person and the 3rd person perspective? A bit more provocatively: what is the relationship between #physics, #psychedelic experiences and #shamanism? #Glattfelder makes a plea for syncretic idealism: a worldview that synthesises ancient idealist texts and mystical experiences with physics, complexity science and analytic idealism.

#SyncreticIdealism could lead to a #ScientificSpirituality, a form of #empiricalmysticism that acknowledges a purposeful universe, wanting to know itself through ever increasing complexity."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgpABHt2B7I

Out of fashion or in demand ?

Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.

— Eric Raymond

#Python: Malicious #PyPI Packages Stole #Cloud #Tokens—Over 14,100 Downloads Before Removal
https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/malicious-pypi-packages-stole-cloud.html

#Design #Challenges
Simplification takes courage · “Simplicity isn’t the absence of complexity, but rather complexity resolved.” https://ilo.im/162y5c

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#Decisions #Clarity #Simplicity #Complexity #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

What Makes Code Hard to Read: Visual Patterns of Complexity (2023)
https://seeinglogic.com/posts/visual-readability-patterns/
#ycombinator #programming #complexity #patterns #JavaScript

https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/03/09/2025/semafor-flagship-soft-power-hard-problems

Lynn Margulis was born OTD in 1938. At 29, she published her theory that eukaryotes had evolved via endosymbiosis, after having it rejected by at least 15 other journals. #HPBio #Complexity #HistSTM #EvoBio #WomeninSTEM

On the origin of mitosing cell...

#systemsthinking
#systemsdynamics
#systemsengineering
#emergence
#complexity

@systemsthinking

Patterned Quadtree

Manipulation of the quadtree fractal made in GIMP. Original fractal made with Processing.

Living Complexity: Practical applications of Human Complexity in software and digital products development https://leanpub.com/livingcomplexity

This book describes 15 practical applications of Human Complexity in the context of software and digital products development. And suggests a new strategy for introducing Complexity thinking to your team and your organisation.

Find the book on Leanpub!

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

— Antoine de Saint Exupry

Science is in the business of explanation, not prediction. And #complexity science should know better than any other science that future is unpredictable. Yet, this paper claims it offers "practical tool for prediction".

https://arxiv.org/html/2501.07349v1

Hear, hear!

“We Are Destroying Software”, Salvatore ‘antirez’ Sanfilippo (https://antirez.com/news/145).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42983275

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/xfjcze/we_are_destroying_software

Just published: "Human #languages trade off #complexity against #efficiency" in PLOS Complex Systems
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcsy.0000032

Main findings:
- Languages that are (information-theoretically) more complex are more efficient.
- Larger speaker communities tend to use more efficient languages. 1/

"Doing the wrong thing for the wrong reason never has a snowball-in-hell chance of being the right thing!" = Futurist Jim Carroll

It takes a lot to piss off Canadians.

Suffice it to say, a sleeping giant woke up from the snow, looked around, and didn't like what it saw. Lots of folks don't understand the depth of pride and identity that is embedded deep into the soul of our nation. They don't understand the visceral depth of anger that most Canadians feel right now.

Ponder that word: visceral.

There will be a lot of information in the days, months, weeks (years?) to come. I'll be working hard to temper my comments, moderate my opinions, and manage my emotions. This will be tough. I will note that my next keynote will be for the Texas farming and agricultural industry.

Anyway, there is a lot to think about and a lot to share. A good starting point is to appreciate that yes, this is a zero-sum game. There will be losers, and there will be losers. There are no winners, except for those who wish to see the destruction of a century of global trade based on mutual trust and respect.

The big issue is - what is the pathway out? That's complicated. 
The best I can offer you is this insight, being shared online, by one Prof. David Honig of Indiana University. 

Read the last line.

It's in my post today.

**#Trade** **#Relations** **#Trust** **#Leadership** **#Understanding** **#Perspective** **#Complexity** **#Diplomacy**

https://jimcarroll.com/2025/02/daily-inspiration-trade-trust-doing-the-wrong-thing-for-the-wrong-reason-never-has-a-snowball-in-hell-chance-of-being-the-right-thing/

one day i will have run though all of these, but for now this is what you get here.

#trump
#peakoil
#collapse
#talkcollapse
#systemsthinking
#complexity
#everything

It's OK to hardcode feature flags
https://code.mendhak.com/hardcode-feature-flags/
#ycombinator #json #feature #complexity #safety #toggles

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work.

— John Gall