You can't do magic with emergence in a system without second-order (or beyond) thinking.

A rare few know how to apply the principles of ecosystems to catalyze emergent outcomes that could not be built.

Emergence is a form of magic.

Loving emergence is learning to love the mess.

Emergent systems are alive.

They're not possible to control, but they are possible to surf.

That is, to harness some subset of the energy to propel you to a great outcome, and to impart small biases into the system that lead to wildly different results.