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Since time immemorial humans have complained that life is becoming more complex, but it is only now that we have a hope to analyze formally and verify this lament.

The interdisciplinary field of network science has attracted enormous attention in the past 10 years, although most results have been obtained by analyzing isolated networks. However many real-world networks interact with and depend on other networks.

Part One: Rendering Relationships Sign up to be alerted when Pencil Me In, my book on visual thinking, is available. I’m gone a little crazy for concept models. It started with when I wrote, How to…

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At BAM, we use an 8 Dimension Scale-Linking framework to assess the health of any system. Said more efficiently, we try to understand things in their context. For instance, an excellent technique to…

As humanity faces a growing number of existential challenges, we find that governments and institutions are not doing their jobs – they are failing us precisely at the moment we need them most. The apocalypse has many horsemen: social unrest, inequality, environmental collapse, species extinction, pandemics, trade wars, and yes,…

In one of the classes I teach at CCA, students were confused by mental models, conceptual models, concept maps, etc. I ended up drawing a taxonomy for models on the whiteboard, and it may help othe…