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Episode 3 - What complexity actually is

The Clock and the Cat

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The Catalyst in the Plastic Bags

A catalyst is something you introduce in a system that creates it to change suddenly. So raising the charge for plastic bags, for example, in supermarkets, where you're actually acting on the system rather than nudging some different behavior. This is where network theory comes in again, as if you understand the state of the network, it will you can change it.

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