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

#threegoodthings #3goodthings
1) watched a really excellent video recording of a Clarendon lecture by Tima Bansal .. can’t wait to see the second! https://www.youtube.com/live/Tqs6oI9GEZ4?si=H0JVmsNIcKJLzU5F
#systemsthinking #complexity
2) had a nice teams chat with another friend-colleague with whom I had not spoken in several months
3) my family and friends, and my

#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

The code you write makes you a programmer. The code you delete makes you a good one. The code you don't have to write makes you a great one.

— Mario Fusco

Guest article by Dr. #Bernhard #Weßling: “#Origin of #randomness, #complexity, #crises and #time”

I like to put the #theses contained in his new book up for #discussion on my #science blog. That's why I'm now looking forward to possible, even “coincidental” #resonances and look forward to numerous #comments on the topic.

More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2025/03/16/zufall-krisen-zeit/

or: https://www.bernhard-wessling.com/

this looks terrible, Lake Como School of Advanced studies summer school on the Legal Complexity and Technology: Advanced Tools for the Legal Sphere 25-29 August 2025. https://lcte.lakecomoschool.org/

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex — not that which never has divined it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) American jurist, Supreme Court Justice
Letter (1902-10-24) to Lady Georgina Deffell Pollock

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-jr-oliver-wen…

Which principles around collaboration can inspire & orient leaders to navigate effectively intractable problems & elusive opportunities? Video-short Part 10 => https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lucaminudel_principles-management-leadership-activity-7305139201216311296-p1L0

#Principles
#Management
#Leadership
#WaysOfWorking
#ProjectManagement
#ProductManagement
#Complexity
#Problems
#Opportunities
#ComplexityThinking

Another excellent episode of the @simplifyingcomplexity #podcast, this time featuring Ricardo Hausmann of #Harvard Growth Lab, discussing economic #complexity in different countries.

open.spotify.com/episode/7cTH...

Atlas: atlas.hks.harvard.edu

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

#Simplicity beats #complexity ...

In the light of #evolution, everything suddenly #makes #sense

In the interplay of #modeling, #feeling and the #evolutionary principles we decode the #secrets of #knowledge and #understanding. In doing so, we come across #consciousness, #mind and #intelligence.

Ready to rediscover evolution?
https://modfeelblog.wordpress.com

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

The Myth of Human Supremacy

"So where do we begin? We begin by questioning the unquestioned beliefs that are the real authorities of this culture, and then we move out from there. And once you’ve begun that questioning, my job is done, because once those questions start they never stop. From that point on, what you do is up to you."

https://dgrnewsservice.org/civilization/ecocide/habitat-loss/derrick-jensen-the-myth-of-human-supremacy/

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

— Brian W. Kernighan

more thoughts on #trump from ugo bardi

(who is still being a antivaxxer and i have still beef with )

but what he has to say on this is still worth thinking about.

he is the fast-#collapse-of-#complexity-guy

i strongly agree with him , the #midterms are a huge leverage point no one seems to have on the radar.

https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/why-government-by-intuition-is-bound

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...

Why Contemplation & Wonder are essential for the Future of Humanity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F838KOrQrRg

#psychiatry #philosophy #wisdom #power #complexity #cosmos #contemplation #wonder #thegreatsimplification #iainmcgilchrist #natehagens

A quotation from Will Rogers

What do you think of Technocracy?
Nothing you can’t spell will ever work.

Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Column (1933-01-04), “Daily Telegram: Will Rogers Interviews Forgotten Man”

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/rogers-will/75276/

"The hypermarketization of everything", Quinn Slobodian, 2025

Bean counters are attempting to put a monetary value on the complexity of nature

Think of a logged forest.

"The value of the timber produced counts towards Australia’s gross domestic product. But cutting trees down also produces a loss. For example, the forest is no longer there for the community to enjoy. And it no longer provides “services” such as filtering water and preventing soil erosion."

"There are many reasons to measure the value of those services. For example, governments might then be able to charge a logging company a licence fee which reflects the community value of the forest. A government may decide the forest is too valuable to allow logging at all, or the fee may just be set too high for any company to find it profitable to log it."

"To date, the value lost when trees are cut down, or other ecosystems are damaged, has not been included in the national accounts. The new environmental accounts seek to change this."
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https://theconversation.com/new-report-slaps-an-official-price-tag-on-australias-precious-natural-assets-250623

Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
How neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War,
Quinn Slobodian, 2025 >>
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9781890951917/hayeks-bastards
#nature #Biodiversity #EPBCAct #NatureNegative #Naturepositive #complexity #ecosystems #degradation #value #loss #NativeForests #extractivism #hypermarketization