Geoffrey West
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January 15th, 2023
- Books/Scale by Geoffrey West has connections with ep6 of Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
- it highlights new, non-obvious enabling constraints & selective constraints that organisms exist within
- a dynamical systems theory lays out an engine
- a virtual governor
- + a virtual generator
- = a virtual engine
October 11th, 2022
- I think they'd love Books/Scale by Geoffrey West, if they're not already familiar
Podcast summaries
- Keywords - fractal fractal selves perspective-taking parallax Game B Jordan Hall Jim Rutt Show The Challenge of Partial Control Destructive Global Capitalism Grokking Systems and Society community much of human collaboration scales sublinearly but it's possible to scale superlinearly the point of friendliness is not to avoid conflict, but to actually create contexts that allow for deeper, more intense, prolonged conflict over the long term dialogue human superorganism Geoffrey West Books/Scale by Geoffrey West Books/Scale by Geoffrey West fractal selves internal conflict inner conflict internal conflict Higher Dimensional Thinking, the End of Paradox, and a More Adequate Understanding of Reality
- Keywords - brain hemispheres McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model Perceptual Control Theory barn-raising Internal Family Systems blindspot blindspot feedback is hard (but possible!) it's only possible to be rational within a frame make shared or different frames explicit Change doesn't just happen Intend productivity Intend Philosophy & Paradigm how to think about goals PCT internal conflict much of human collaboration scales sublinearly but it's possible to scale superlinearly What are the components or dimensions required for collaborative culture? Geoffrey West Questions for teasing apart the concept of commitment commitment/choice is a confused way to relate to stances/mindsets Everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & old emotional meanings everyone is constantly overgeneralizing acceptance isn't the same as acceptance safety self-trust right hemisphere left hemisphere self-energizing
- 46:10 - 56:49 - How fractals help us understand hyper-objects, differences in perspective and differences among parts in inner-conflict fractal fractal selvesGeoffrey West Books/Scale by Geoffrey West Books/Scale by Geoffrey West fractal selves internal conflict inner conflict internal conflict Higher Dimensional Thinking, the End of Paradox, and a More Adequate Understanding of Reality
With Jonny Miller — Podcast with Jonny Miller Transcript › Outline of ideas discussed. (I'm M, Jonny is J)
- 1:02:27 - 1:10:32 - Why is Ian McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model valuable? McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model brain hemispheres much of human collaboration scales sublinearly but it's possible to scale superlinearly What are the components or dimensions required for collaborative culture? Geoffrey West Questions for teasing apart the concept of commitment commitment/choice is a confused way to relate to stances/mindsets
November 5th, 2021
Romeo Stevens call re thinking that rejects other thinkin… › things we need better language for › the phenomenon Beeminder talks about, of if your error sy… › R > buddhism - suffering is such an error system › R > you don't want things to scale too fast › but the other part needs to ignore that knows-more part i… › M > the word organize
- R > "cardiovascular health of a tribe" might be a reasonable concept
November 2nd, 2021
You Weren't Meant To Have A Boss by Paul Graham › Which means for a group of 10 managers to work together a… › whoa this is wild
- connects a bunch with thinking I've been doing re Books/Scale by Geoffrey West
October 18th, 2021
- relates to Books/Scale by Geoffrey West & superlinear scaling, but about how books are superlinearly complex compared to N blog posts
October 16th, 2021
- > Keeping the size of the House stagnant for 110 years has had some large downsides. As the population of the country grew, the number of people represented by each Member of Congress has as well. Currently each Member of Congress represents roughly 763,247 people.
October 15th, 2021
- I read a bit of Books/Scale by Geoffrey West by Geoffrey West tonight
- including jumping to the section talking about why companies die and cities don't
- I may break it down but the main jist is that companies get pressured into operating on really slim margins, which then means they can't weather perturbations
- as for why this happens, I haven't read that section yet
- Haier is also maybe solving this with its micro-enterprises?
- although also maybe not, because maybe those MEs aren't actually themselves that profitable?
- but maybe also the MEs are able to die without the whole dying, way more easily
- and the org is able to branch out into new arenas easily & creatively
- HA! a WE composed of many MEs 😆
- ME = micro-enterprise
- WE = whole enterprise
- at any rate, it does broadly seem like the thing I'm pointing at with the meta-team is more city-like than company-like in the first place
- I was initially thinking that maybe I would conclude from reading Books/Scale by Geoffrey West that I would want to make it more city-like vs company-like, but it's already kind of that
- and I guess I had been thinking of it as almost like an economy
- anyway, impressions so far:
- visakanv will want to read this, or at least parts of it
- just bought it for him on readgift
- this has implications for team design
- maybe Richard Bartlett would want to read it for thinking about Microsolidarity