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Strategic Complexity: Adaptive Problem-Solving in Unpredictable Environments
A free online book by Ace Eddleman on solving hard problems in unpredictable environments, built from complexity science, ecology and evolutionary biology.
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# Strategic Complexity: Adaptive Problem-Solving in Unpredictable Environments
> A free online book by Ace Eddleman on solving hard problems in unpredictable environments, built from complexity science, ecology and evolutionary biology.
Written by Ace Eddleman, first published online in 2023 as a "Neverending Book" that is updated over time. Free to read. The book argues that most important problems live inside complex adaptive systems (markets, firms, careers, relationships), where prediction and control fail. It builds the foundations (ecological thinking, systems, complex adaptive systems, self-organization, emergence, chaos and attractor basins), names the default lenses that get in the way (seeking answers, security, overcontrol, over-optimization, reductionism), works through core strategic dilemmas (plans vs heuristics, design vs selection, evolution vs development and the 95/5 rule, exploration vs exploitation, production vs exploitation, trust vs risk), and closes with solution frameworks (simplicity and the Midwit Method, gene pools and genetic algorithms, smart laziness, real options).
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## Systems & Complexity
- [Ecology](https://www.strategiccomplexity.com/ecology/): Why the individual is the wrong unit of analysis. Ecological scales, feedback loops, and why every hard problem starts with the environment you're embedded in.
- [Systems](https://www.strategiccomplexity.com/systems/): The universe is a system of systems. What deterministic systems are, why we want everything to behave like a car, and why most of the world refuses to.
- [Complex Adaptive Systems](https://www.strategiccomplexity.com/complex-adaptive-systems/): What complex adaptive systems are, how they differ from deterministic ones (you build a car, you grow a brain), and how to tell which kind of problem you face.
- [Self-Organization](https://www.strategiccomplexity.com/self-organization/): How complex systems organize from the bottom up without central control, from neurons and the internet to economies, ecosystems, symbiosis and feedback loops.
- [Emergence](https://www.strategiccomplexity.com/emergence/): How simple parts following simple rules produce unpredictable global behavior: consciousness, ant colonies, flocks, markets and network effects. With a live Game of Life.
- [Chaos & Attractors](https://www.strategiccomplexity.com/chaos-and-attractors/): Why complex systems thrive at the edge of chaos, how attractor basins trap people and companies in comfortable equilibrium, and how disturbances knock you loose.
## Fundamental Problems
- [Answers](https://www.strategiccomplexity.com/answers/): Taking other people's answers costs you autonomy. Why their solutions don't fit your problems, why answers breed more questions, and why action is the real source of knowledge.
- [Security](https://www.strategiccomplexity.com/security/): Your brain evolved to link cause and effect
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