Sam Arbesman
6 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 28, 2016 by Sam Arbesman · across every show →
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Nov 28, 2016
Arbesman: Drafting a book requires writing 1,000 unjudged words per day
“The way I did it was I set myself a goal of kind of just a certain amount of text to create per day at least as the initial step, I said something like, A thousand words a day, and so I just write a thousand words, and it didn't have to be on a single topic it…”
Nov 28, 2016
Arbesman: Modern technology has grown too complex even for its creators
“Increasingly technologies are becoming so complicated that not only just does the every everyday person not fully understand them, but increasingly even the experts who work on them with a daily basis, or even the people who built them don't necessarily fully …”
Nov 28, 2016
Arbesman: Complex technology requires biological thinking rather than physics-style abstractions
“When you build a technological system that mirrors the world in all of its complexity you have to be kind of aware of all the details. You end up making something that's more biological in structure and ends up therefore being more amenable to kind of this bio…”
Nov 28, 2016 positive
Arbesman: Simulations reveal non-linearities and unexpected behaviors in complex systems
“Another kind of approach that I advocate with these technologies is like having simulations, like the same way that in playing with, like in playing SimCity, you might gain a better sense of the complexity of a city rather than not necessarily the details of t…”
Nov 28, 2016
Arbesman: People fail to update 'mesofacts' that change over decades
“So miso facts were sort of facts that bits of information that change neither too slowly nor too rapidly. They're sort of at the middle or miso scale. The idea is that there's bits of knowledge that change very, very rarely, like how many constants there are o…”
Nov 28, 2016
Arbesman: Leaders should avoid rapid changes in complex, interconnected organizations
“When someone kind of comes into a new organization, there's a tendency to really make a mark and change a lot of different things, and that desire should be tempered with this recognition that when a system might be highly nonlinear, highly interconnected and …”