Things like SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) is a great example of fighting complexity with complexity. If not also giving corporate consultants new services to sell on the unwitting.
But more typically I most often observe the pattern of oversimplification: selling the promise of an overly simplistic, ill-conceived model of the world that provides the satisfying illusion of mastery and control. Make Reality Great Again.
For my own "complexity wisdom", I generally advocate more of a working-with complexity. Much as a surfer needs to be aware of the wave patterns and currents they cannot control to ride the best wave they can with the degrees of freedom offered to them. Simplification can help, but the challenge is perhaps more about new ways of thinking and doing and less about minimalism.
Honing on first principles makes complete sense because new novelty is likely to arise even the second time you attempt something. Targeting a direction instead of a place or endpoint is also key, because we have to be open to novelty along the path and observant of the "adjacent possible".
But we also need lots and lots of questions, followed up with experiments to develop insights, and fewer and fewer grand plans rooted in dubious and self-delusional presumptions.
Spot on Pascal, "everything should be as simple as possible but no simpler" Occam's Razor
Things like SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) is a great example of fighting complexity with complexity. If not also giving corporate consultants new services to sell on the unwitting.
But more typically I most often observe the pattern of oversimplification: selling the promise of an overly simplistic, ill-conceived model of the world that provides the satisfying illusion of mastery and control. Make Reality Great Again.
For my own "complexity wisdom", I generally advocate more of a working-with complexity. Much as a surfer needs to be aware of the wave patterns and currents they cannot control to ride the best wave they can with the degrees of freedom offered to them. Simplification can help, but the challenge is perhaps more about new ways of thinking and doing and less about minimalism.
Honing on first principles makes complete sense because new novelty is likely to arise even the second time you attempt something. Targeting a direction instead of a place or endpoint is also key, because we have to be open to novelty along the path and observant of the "adjacent possible".
But we also need lots and lots of questions, followed up with experiments to develop insights, and fewer and fewer grand plans rooted in dubious and self-delusional presumptions.