1/ Developing a basic understanding and intuition around how complex systems work may be the most important thing I've learned in the last five years.
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4/ I'm normally not a big course person and prefer books, but being able to run simulations with different parameters and see how they affect system behavior did a lot to hone my intuition.
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5/ Per Bak's Sandpile metaphor is extremely helpful and well summarized here - nautil.us/issue/23/domin
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6/ Almost all of Nassim Taleb's work is about how human misunderstand the behavior of complex systems. Start with Fooled by Randomness - amzn.to/2GLp5IK
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7/ Benoit Mandelbrot's Misbehavior of Markets uses complex systems thinking to absolutely annihilate the efficient market hypothesis and all the financial orthodoxy built on top of it - amzn.to/2FD2fE5
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8/ The Cynefin Framework from James Snowden is really helpful for understanding when you are dealing with a complex system as opposed to a simple, complicated or chaotic one - hbr.org/2007/11/a-lead
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I realized that 5 minutes after I tweeted it. Hard to edit tweetstorms though :/
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