
#307: Complexity Theory in One Lesson
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Compliance Theory - What Got You Interested in Complexity Theory?
Complexity theory is a study of how very simple mechanisms can produce results that are unpredictably control in a way. And so, you know, i spent a lot of time working on tel communications policy early in my legal career and watching the f c c pass a complicated set of rules, have it create these unintended consequences. I just saw the pattern there of a complex adaptive system, which is one in which when you're pushing down the balloon in this place, like it its the complexities going to pop up somewhere else. It's a distillation of a complex complexity theory and emergent order, and a trying to apply it into leadership, whether you're in the public sphere or in
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