Gall's Law
- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.
- — John Gall, systems theorist
2 linked references
May 30th, 2023
notes from MalJess convo › M ~> "ultimately the MalVal stuff knows it needs the phys… › Jess took issue with "ultimately", › which I got an insight from that I think was somewhat dif…
- but in the sense that it needs to happen NOW - Gall's Law. you can't put it off. you can't tack it on later. you have to be doing your best version of it now
Sequence on NNTD
topics — I want an auto-generated N/M progress bar here › What do we do in the meantime if we can't dialogue?
- in the meantime also relates to Gall's Law and Neurath's boat I just noticed—a system has to be (in some sense) functional the whole time as it evolves