You can do things alone and it is difficult. You can have help and perhaps it’s easier, but sometimes you’re still alone and you need a third hand.
Clever use of scaffolding clamps and tricks, bracing, can turn your environment into a second person.
The benefits are 1) you feel clever and 2) that system won’t chastise your silly pridefulness.
Category: Systems
- Theme: Systems
Helping Hand Systems
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1–2 minutes - Theme: Systems
The fundamental contradiction
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1–2 minutesWe want people to change so the world will be better and easier. Yet we seldom follow the adage: “In order to change the world, you must first change yourself.”
In the only realm we could possibly hope to have influence or a modicum of control, we do nothing, yet we continue to cry out for change.
- Theme: Systems
Retain curiosity for simplicity
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1–2 minutesMany mistakes are made because we skip the basics of reality and perception.
Try to stay curious and start off engaging at the most basic level. When you skip forward into your complex biases and preferences, it is all about you, not reality.
- Theme: Systems
Thoroughly understand the simple
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1–2 minutesUnderstanding a simple concept thoroughly is more beneficial than knowing complicated systems.
This concept seems simple, but isn’t. Likely you are already bored.
Example: A simple concept like "leverage" underpins all societies and economics. How about "reciprocity"? What is the difference between "price" and "value"?
- Theme: Systems
Be complex, not complicated
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1–2 minutesAn old watch is complicated, but open it up and you can see the gears and (maybe) figure out how it works. Remove a gear and it no longer functions.
A complex system has many interlocking variables, take one out and something else will replace it, making it a robust, dynamic system. Cascades of unforeseen consequences create change.