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Hope without optimism – transcription of a talk by Dave Snowden (2022)


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Yeah, and the other one, by the way, which I think is causal, and there's many of these, is that attempts to commit suicide by drowning, peaks in that directly correlate with the release of Nicolas Cage movies, but I can see a reason for that. If you think that isn't relevant to the modern day, in 1945, a Raytheon engineer, maintaining the magneto of a radar machine, realised the significance of the fact that a chocolate bar had melted in his pocket. So what matters in complexity is not to define where you would like to be and try and close the gap, that's been the dominant approach of systems thinking, but to more accurately describe the present and start journeys with a sense of direction, open to novel discovery on your pathway.

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