[A]lthough the past is never completely knowable, it is more knowable than the future.[1] …John Lewis Gaddis, Historian [T]he world’s…
Complexity in Business
A few years back I was part of an online bar fight over the relative value of different market research…
The following first appeared in the March 6, 2026 Strategy in Praxis newsletter. Columbia University Press will publish my book…
By Doug Garnett & JP Castlin, July 2025 In the May 23rd edition of JP Castlin’s Strategy in Praxis newsletter…
Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.…
Last week, Americans watched a heavyweight slap battle between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. While few were surprised to see…
The following is based on several weeks of conversation with JP Castlin which explored issues of experimentation — discussion which…
My most recent posts pursued ideas of human self-organization and the potential value it offers as we do business. This…
In last week’s post I introduced the idea that self-organization is a powerful force in both the natural and the human…
One surprising discovery from complexity science has been that both natural and human worlds “self-organize” in highly effective ways. This…