16:15, at my desk, Amsterdam

I am flicking through Kahane’s Solving Tough Problems. He categorises complexity as such:

1. Dynamic. Distance in space and time between cause and effect. Spacial complexity, someone drops a fart and I smell it because he is next to me. Temporal (time) complexity, someone drops a fart from across the room and it takes a minute to reach me.

2. Generative. If something is predicable and known.
3. Social. The amount of values, goals, etc, that a group share.

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