Understanding and intervention for system performance and human wellbeing is rooted – to some extent – in four kinds of thinking. In this short series, I outline these. This post focuses on humanistic thinking.
Tag: local rationality
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In this short series, I highlight seven foes and seven friends of system safety, both…
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