Tag: Complex Adaptive Systems

The Same Pattern at Every Scale Why a shared architecture carries questions across domains, not answers Previous: Episode 3, What Survives Is What Could Not Be EliminatedNext: Episode 5, What the Eye Cannot See, the Pattern Reveals Across a slope,...

What Survives Is What Could Not Be Eliminated Persistence is the visible residue of variation, constraint and history Previous: Episode 2, The Future Is Not Hidden, It Is UnwrittenNext: Episode 4, The Same Pattern at Every Scale The river at...

The Future Is Not Hidden, It Is Unwritten What a forecast does when its subjects can act on it Previous: Episode 1, What Bohm SawNext: Episode 3, What Survives Is What Could Not Be Eliminated Imagine a bar that is...

What Bohm Saw The relationships between things are part of what the system is Previous: Introduction Next:Episode 2, The Future Is Not Hidden, It Is Unwritten A risk report shows each futures position within its intended limit. Then a common...

Hidden in Plain Sight A working trader’s case for seeing relationships, constraints and process Next: Episode 1, What Bohm Saw A forester returns to a familiar stand and notices that the undergrowth, birds and soil no longer seem to respond...

Three Books, One Question Markets. Systems. Reality. Why I wrote a trilogy, and why the three books are meant to be read as one. There is more order in the world than there should be. I noticed it first in...

Listen to the full episode: Why Markets Are More Alive Than We Think ft. Richard Brennan Niels and I began this conversation in a crowded bar in Santa Fe. Not literally. The bar was El Farol, famous locally for its...

There is a question that has tormented philosophers for centuries. Leibniz asked it. Heidegger called it the fundamental question of metaphysics. It still appears in late-night conversations, usually when the room has fallen quiet and someone has strayed a little...

Every field has a vocabulary, and the vocabulary matters more than it looks. Terms like attractor, ergodicity, phase transition and power law are not decorative imports from physics. They are the precise language required to describe things classical finance cannot...

My father sat in that chair every evening. Same chair, same angle to the television, same hour, after dinner, when the light through the window turned golden and then faded. Over the years the cushion moulded to him. The armrests...