The long termism that creates adaptability and resilience in a system is impossible to see in smaller bits, it's emergent.
- The long termism that creates adaptability and resilience in a system is impossible to see in smaller bits, it's emergent.
- Reductionists ask to see the component that produces the value.
- But it's not a component, it's emergence from the connection.
- That's why the beancounters win.
- They can point to concrete things to explain the value creation.
- The emergent value feels abstract, like woo.