The Cobra Effect: When Your Solution Becomes the Problem
The Cobra Effect explains how well-intentioned interventions backfire in complex systems, and how to spot the trap before you spring it.
M. Linden4 posts tagged complexity from Confronting Unknowns.
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M. LindenA jet engine is complicated. A rainforest is complex. The distinction is not semantic. Confusing the two leads to catastrophically wrong interventions.
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