Human Social Complexity

If you can describe complexity then it is not complex anymore.

Ross Ashby

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Humans Are Different. And Darn Complex!
By Gerrit Van Wyk Blogs are a more recent social artifact, and as such, take on many shapes and forms. They are mostly short, and focused on a single topic, which in my case, creates...
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Systems Thinking and Complexity
By Gerrit Van Wyk. Some define systems as entities consisting of interactions between multiple components, from which properties emerge that are more than the sum of the parts,...
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Facilitated Workshops Create the Problems They Try to Solve
By Gerrit Van Wyk. A blog about facilitated workshops, and an article about social engineering I recently read, connect in an intriguing way. The blog makes the point facilitated...
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Something About Change
By Gerrit Van Wyk. Felix the flying frog. There is a story about a man named Clarence, who had a pet frog named Felix, and decided he could make some money if he could make...
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Knowledge Generation As A Complex Social System
By Gerrit Van Wyk. Getting one’s work published today is different from what it used to be. Many consider self-publishing a vanity project, and pay little attention to self-published...
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The Trouble with Systems Thinking
By Gerrit Van Wyk. The grid Flood and Jackson use for Total System Intervention (TSI), unintentionally exposes a major dilemma system thinking faces. The basic premise is...
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